Author Archives: James Peters
ROTHENBURGER – Afternoon council meetings win the day over evenings
KAMLOOPS - THE IDEA OF HOLDING regular Kamloops City council meetings in the evening instead of afternoon was worth looking at but a staff report on the issue has given council several reasons to stic...
May 12, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Whispering Pines Chief hoping for Trans Mountain discussions before fall election
KAMLOOPS - The chair of a First Nations organization trying to acquire an equity stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline says he hopes the government sits down before the House of Commons rises ahead of ...
May 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Balance of Power
ROTHENBURGER: New intersection speed cameras don’t go far enough
ONCE AGAIN, KAMLOOPS has been left out.Thirty-five B.C. intersections will be monitored with radar cameras to catch drivers who speed through. None will be in Kamloops.The only thing wrong with this p...
May 11, 2019 Image Credit: Nicolas1975 | Dreamstime.com
90 Seconds to the Weekend - May 10, 2019
Check out what's coming up this weekend! 90 Seconds to the Weekend provides all the details you need to kick off your weekend with the most current events.
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
Balance of Power: Whispering Pines/Clinton Chief Michael LeBourdais and former Kamloops councillor Tina Lange
Host James Peters speaks to Whispering Pines/Clinton Indian Band Chief Michael LeBourdais about efforts to acquire an equity stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline, which runs directly through his band'...
May 10, 2019
SOUND OFF: Rothenburger wrong on history, wrong on Begbie
ON A RECENT ARMCHAIR MAYOR presentation on CFJC TV (Character assassination of famous BC judge must stop, May 8, 2019), Mel Rothenburger stated that New Westminster was wrong to recently remove their ...
May 09, 2019 Judge Matthew Begbie (Image Credit: B.C. Provincial Archives)
Trade dispute with US a political challenge for China's Xi
BEIJING - The tariff war between Washington and Beijing poses one of the biggest challenges yet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, potentially exposing his political vulnerabilities at a time when the ...
May 09, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: No need for police to be defensive about investigations
THE KAMLOOPS RCMP DETACHMENT has been having some embarrassing moments.The tragic drowning death of a 23-year-old international student in the North Thompson River last weekend was marked by initial m...
May 08, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Kamloops hospice seeks to bust myths during Palliative Care Week
KAMLOOPS - It is National Palliative Care Week across Canada, a week that is focused on improving the quality of life for patients near the end of their lives. Wendy Marlow, the executive director of ...
May 08, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
IIO report into 2018 Rose Hill shootout determines officers acted appropriately
KAMLOOPS - The Independent Investigation Office of B.C has now released its report into an officer-involved shooting in a rural area of Kamloops last year. Officers responded to an area about three ki...
May 08, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
