Category Archives: Column

FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, all attention has been focused on the big white elephant to the south of us and the man who would be king who has upended the entire world order, creating chaos. At the s...

THE KAMLOOPS-THOMPSON SCHOOL DISTRICT is proposing deep staffing cuts in order to balance the budget next school year. The district wants to eliminate more than 75 positions - 27-and-a-half on the tea...

IN 2024, we published the Kamloops Food Assets Index representing a list of local, culturally appropriate food options in Kamloops. This year, we developed a user-friendly map that showcases the locat...

WHY IS IT TAKING SO LONG to fix the elevator in the Lansdowne Street parkade? If you Google the parkade, it is listed as being 'accessible'. However, given that the elevator has been out of service fo...

THERE IS NO QUESTION that the carbon tax has been an important tool for B.C.'s fight against climate change. However, it has become a divisive issue across our country, and the debate about it distrac...

NATIONS RISE FOR THE SAME REASONS that they fall, as what once made them powerful eventually becomes a debilitating weakness which threatens their very existence!For Rome, it was their legions of seem...

OVER THE YEARS, Kamloops has been seen as a poor second cousin to Kelowna. We are still a mining and mill town, still a dusty city without the beauty of our southern neighbour. So it was nice to get s...

KAMLOOPS COUNCIL faced the age-old conundrum this week - pay now or pay later?Council was debating a suite of proposals from staff to knock down the projected tax increase from north of 9 per cent to ...

I'M TOTALLY IN SHOCK over how easily Prime Minister Mark Carney got bowled over by President Trump. Since the president put his tariffs in place, Canadians have risen in anger against the roughshod an...

IN NOVEMBER 2021, British Columbians watched as heavy rainfall caused catastrophic flooding in southern B.C.The damage to homes, businesses and infrastructure made the floods one of the most disastrou...