Category Archives: Column
SOUND OFF: Kamloops isn't asking to be treated differently on cancer care. We're asking to be treated the same
LAST WEEK, I faced off in the legislature in Victoria with the NDP Minister of Health, Josie Osborne, over the future of the Kamloops cancer centre.The two of us went back and forth for about 20 minut...
Apr 17, 2025
COLLINS: Not everyone is wrapped up in politics
NOT MANY OF US have become immune to the scatterbrained schemes of Donald Trump. It's inhumane to have to put up with that every day.But not everyone plays along with Dingo Donnie. Throughout our coun...
Apr 17, 2025
SOUND OFF: Supporting British Columbians with energy costs
WE KNOW THAT ACROSS B.C., people are struggling with global inflation and rising costs. British Columbians also care deeply about protecting our environment and they want a government who is focused o...
Apr 16, 2025
COLLINS: Time to put priority on our issues
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...
Apr 13, 2025
PETERS: School district budget roller coaster takes another turn
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...
Apr 11, 2025
SOUND OFF: Where to find dishes from different cultures in Kamloops
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...
Apr 11, 2025
COLLINS: Parking woes in the Lansdowne Street parkade
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...
Apr 10, 2025
SOUND OFF: Supporting British Columbians by repealing the consumer carbon tax
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...
Apr 09, 2025
SOUND OFF: Of things to come
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...
Apr 08, 2025
COLLINS: Chalk one up for Kamloops
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...
Apr 06, 2025
