Category Archives: Column
PETERS: With 5 years of big tax hikes, has the relationship between city hall and Kamloops citizens turned toxic?
FOR MANY YEARS, Kamloops council would try to keep its annual property tax increases right around the rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).In layperson's terms, CPI measures the prices o...
Nov 21, 2025
SOUND OFF: Limiting the need for sick notes in B.C.
CHANGES TO THE EMPLOYMENT STANDARS ACT have come into effect on November 12th that limits when employers can ask for sick notes due to short-term illness. This will help ease the administrative burden...
Nov 19, 2025
COLLINS: Can we ever look in our (A)I again?
TEN YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, I wonder what a picture of me will look like. It might be an exact image of how I look at the time. Or, it may not be a realistic image, because it may not actually be me at a...
Nov 16, 2025
SOUND OFF: That's a wrap, GAP — thank-you for a successful season
SITTING UNDER A MARKET TENT in June with Naya Macaulay, my friend and fellow team member at the Kamloops Food Policy Council, a woman strolling up to our booth at the Yew Street Block Party told us, "...
Nov 15, 2025
PETERS: Showing residential school denialists their hatred is not welcome in our community
A NEST OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL DENIALISTS was treated to a true Kamloops welcome this week.Some of the leading figures pushing to whitewash the horrors of Canada's residential school system slithered in...
Nov 14, 2025
COLLINS: Prime minister makes his choice
PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY has clearly decided which basket to put his eggs in. He hasn't put them all in the same basket, so he has not totally abandoned the old cliche, but his announcements today a...
Nov 13, 2025
SOUND OFF: Taking time to reflect on Remembrance Day
EACH YEAR ON NOVEMBER 11, British Columbians come together to honour those who served and sacrificed their lives for our country.Everyone has their own connection to Remembrance Day. In my family, I t...
Nov 11, 2025
COLLINS: Social media is now a bigger threat than ever
THOSE DESIGNING SOCIAL MEDIA become more and more a source of our daily information - often very sketchy, often an outright lie - but the general public seems to pay less attention to the truth in the...
Nov 09, 2025
PETERS: Justice was simply unattainable for the TRU volleyball players
THERE WILL NEVER BE A WAY to prove what really happened in the cab of Colval Abbinett's pickup truck seconds before it slammed into a small car on McGill Road two years ago.That collision killed Owyn ...
Nov 07, 2025
COLLINS: Can the new budget pull us through the turmoil?
COLLINS: New budget: Can it pull us through the turmoil? WHEN YOU'RE PRESENTED with a massive document like the federal budget, you are drawn to the big-ticket items. For example, in Mark Carney's bud...
Nov 06, 2025
