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Cenotaph vandalism both reprehensible and misguided
KAMLOOPS - The graffiti vandalism at the Kamloops cenotaph that occurred over the holiday season is disturbing on two fronts. First, the desecration of a revered community monument is outrageous. Seco...
Kayla Derkach Dec 29, 2016
Provincial health ministers should stop bickering on transfers
KAMLOOPS - The provincial health ministers should resolve in the New Year to stop bickering, take the money from the feds, and use it as intended. It's a recurring bad movie says Canadian Medical Asso...
Kayla Derkach Dec 29, 2016
Kamloops has a history of gutsy female councillors
KAMLOOPS - Our governments have a shortage of representation from women - that's nothing new. In Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tried to address it, appointing 15 women to his cabinet of 30...
Kayla Derkach Dec 28, 2016
Plight of the disenfranchised in 2016 will make headlines for years to come
KAMLOOPS - Every year at this time, we start to see items about the biggest stories of the year. In the world perspective, Donald Trump's seemingly unlikely rise to the presidency has loomed above all...
Kayla Derkach Dec 27, 2016
Fearless political predictions for 2017 and beyond
KAMLOOPS - Like the Great Carnac of Johnny Carson's era, it's that time of year again. Time to pull out the crystal ball, the Ouija board, some old tealeaves, a copy of the National Enquirer and figur...
Kayla Derkach Dec 27, 2016
The many kinds of magic
KAMLOOPS - It was after 11pm on Christmas Eve that my husband and I took the dog out for a walk. It was quiet. Magic of a different kind. Snow crunched under our feet as we walked, the dog sniffed thi...
Kayla Derkach Dec 26, 2016
It's time to think of those in need
KAMLOOPS - Most of us who read this comment will be in pretty decent shape this Christmas. You will likely have a roof over your head, money at least to buy the basic necessities, and some form of inc...
Kayla Derkach Dec 25, 2016
Frootloops city council makes up its Christmas wish list
KAMLOOPS - IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE, and the Frootloops Council is holding its AGM in the former Kamloops Daily Snooze building - they have to use it for something, after all - to tidy up some important las...
Kayla Derkach Dec 24, 2016
Where were the massive Trans Mountain protests we were promised?
KAMLOOPS - When Prime Minister Trudeau came to Vancouver this week to sell the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, did you see the crowds of protesters following him? Did you see the phal...
Kayla Derkach Dec 23, 2016
Privacy rights and the death of history on the internet
KAMLOOPS - Convicted killer Clifford Olson would probably have preferred that any account of his murder of eleven children and young people in the 1980s removed from the internet. Links such as this W...
Kayla Derkach Dec 22, 2016

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