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There’s nothing wrong with downtown, except the parking
KAMLOOPS - "The downtown core in Kamloops is going to hell in a handbasket. All the businesses are moving out and nobody wants to shop there anymore." That's what you'd think, the way some people have...
Kayla Derkach Feb 22, 2017

A real solution to health care
KAMLOOPS - Anyone who knows anything about health care, in whatever capacity, knows that the system is broken, and in desperate need of repair. Long waits at walk-in clinics, long waits in the ER, lon...
Kayla Derkach Feb 21, 2017

Not enough days in the week for B.C. Liberals to hand out good news
KAMLOOPS - Holy Mackerel, by the time the election gets here in May, British Columbians will think they've died and gone to heaven. As the days roll by, the money just keeps rolling in. Have you been ...
Kayla Derkach Feb 20, 2017

GINTA: Why some media outlets should rethink their ways
KAMLOOPS - We are in the midst of much turmoil worldwide. Unrest is becoming the word of the day. Controversial topics and happenings pouring in with our daily news can make you feel so small a...
Kayla Derkach Feb 20, 2017
Why food trucks if you can't get to them?
KAMLOOPS - I've never been a food truck kind of guy. My work place just isn't conducive to checking out food trucks at breaks or at lunch. But I've been following the food truck debate in council fair...
Kayla Derkach Feb 19, 2017
The next time you worry about immigrants, spit into a tube
KAMLOOPS - I spit into a plastic tube a few weeks ago and popped it in the mail. This week, I got the results and the verdict is in - I am a classic universal Canadian. DNA testing for ethnic origins ...
Kayla Derkach Feb 18, 2017
Anti-Islamophobia motion unleashes hysteria among Conservative base
KAMLOOPS - Debate in Ottawa reached a fever pitch as the week drew to a close. It’s bound to do that on wedge issues, as this one is, but rarely when it comes to issues that will have no measura...
Kayla Derkach Feb 17, 2017
Enough crying about bad city streets
KAMLOOPS - Enough already!! We already know that the city streets aren't in ideal condition. We already know that the sidewalks in some cases are atrocious. We know that intersections are full of wate...
Kayla Derkach Feb 17, 2017
There were so many more Dave and Morley stories to tell
KAMLOOPS - We have lost a great Canadian story teller but we have his stories to keep the memory of him fresh, forever. I'm talking, of course, about Stuart McLean, the man who became a part of our Su...
Kayla Derkach Feb 16, 2017
Local content on the new aether
KAMLOOPS - Medieval scientists believed that radio waves were carried through a medium they called the aether. Seems sensible. If sound waves require a medium, why not radio waves? It turns out that r...
Kayla Derkach Feb 16, 2017

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