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James Peters is our News Director, promoted to the position in November 2023. He got the journalism bug as a youth and hasn’t been able to shake it since, working in radio newsrooms in Manitoba and Alberta before settling at CFJC in 2006. James anchors the afternoon news on B-100 and 98.3 CIFM, and his newscasts have been honoured multiple times as the best small market newscasts in both BC and Canada. When he’s not working, James enjoys spending time with his wife Jennie, his daughter Eden, and his son Jovan.
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PETERS: Less bullying, more empathy will go a long way toward a better Kamloops
THE WORLD OF SOCIAL MEDIA gives everyone an audience - and sometimes the show people put on for their audience isn't entertaining or informative - it's sad and perplexing. This week, a local real estate agent posted an Instagram video that appears to show him using his boat to splash an unhoused person standing at the ...
May 22, 2026
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PETERS: City needs to rethink its communication strategy around incidents like this week's water main break
ONCE THIS ENTIRE MESS of a water main break is over for east Kamloops, it will be crucial for city staff to hold a comprehensive debriefing process to determine what it can do better next time. This debacle played out for the better part of the week, swaying to and fro from mild annoyance to extreme frustration.Leaving...
May 15, 2026
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PETERS: The world is telling you not to travel. Don't listen.
IT SEEMS LIKE THE WORLD is conspiring to keep us exactly where we are this summer. There is a long list of factors that make staying home sound more palatable than venturing out.Many of what would be the most desirable travel locations are in the United States, which has been tainted, depending on your political feelin...
May 08, 2026
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PETERS: If the NDP government is nixing schools and pushing hospital builds, what's next?
WHILE THE BC CONSERVATIVES are internally focused on their own leadership race, the NDP government appears to be quietly making the unpopular cuts that would normally prompt major opposition scrutiny. This week, we found out the government has rejected the business case for a new elementary school in Batchelor Heights ...
May 01, 2026
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PETERS: The good, the bad and the ugly of the Pathways meeting
THERE ARE NOW TWO HUMAN CREATIONS visible from space, according to the crew of the Artemis II. There is the Great Wall of China, which we all knew about.And also visible from space is Reid Hamer-Jackson's conflict of interest in the matter of the Pathways shelter on the North Shore.Whatever lawyer or ex-lawyer or chatb...
Apr 24, 2026
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PETERS: AI has potential to help humanity move forward - as long as it doesn't replace what makes us human
FRIDAY (APRIL 17), CFJC launches a four-part series focusing on artifical intelligence and robotics. Reporter Marty Hastings, along with videographers Curtis Goodrum and Anthony Corea, will give our audience a window into how little ol' Thompson Rivers University in little ol' Kamloops is leading the way into this emer...
Apr 17, 2026
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PETERS: Floor-crossing in Ottawa is stinky, but it's not going anywhere
IN OUR WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM, we elect individuals to represent us in the House of Commons. Those individuals are aligned with parties, certainly, but their primary responsibility is to represent the interests of their constituencies, not the interests of their parties.That's why the floor-crossing Canadians...
Apr 10, 2026
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PETERS: Three-and-a-half years into the term, Kamloops council dysfunction has not improved one iota
IT'S NOW BEEN three-and-a-half years with this mayor and council in Kamloops. That's 1,259 days since the October 15, 2022 municipal election. Considering that duration, it's amazing council meetings are still functioning - or dysfunctioning - like they did this week.There are valid arguments council has moved ahead wi...
Mar 27, 2026
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PETERS: Pathways shouldn't be a wedge between people who want the same thing
IT'S VERY UNFORTUNATE the Pathways shelter on the Kamloops North Shore has become a wedge issue in our community since it opened more than a year ago. It shouldn't be.The goals of a healthy, housed population and a safe environment for residents and businesspeople should not be mutually exclusive.Pathways came before c...
Mar 13, 2026
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PETERS: Celebration from Iranian ex-pats speaks louder than our skepticism of Trump
THERE ARE A LOT OF REASONS to be extremely suspicious about the United States military campaign against the Iranian regime.In order to have faith that this operation will be successful, you must first believe that the U.S. government is capable of successfully carrying out any operation.The Trump approach to so many is...
Mar 06, 2026
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PETERS: U.S. Olympic men's hockey team celebration was extremely political - whether players recognize it or not
THE DISCOURSE around the American Olympic men's hockey team cozying up with the U.S. administration this week has exposed a huge fissure in western society. It's not the distance between left and right on the political spectrum, or even the polarity between the sane and the unhinged.It's the widening gap between the we...
Feb 27, 2026
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PETERS: Where has the money gone?
THE PROVINCIAL BUDGET that dropped this week is baffling on a number of different fronts.The biggest question is one the NDP government has yet to properly answer - where has the money gone? How on earth can the government have gone from a surplus position less than a decade ago when the NDP took power to now being so ...
Feb 20, 2026
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PETERS: The cost of our collective malaise is children's lives
IT'S THE SAME after every one of these, isn't it? Mass shootings.While the victims pile up, while the tragedies hit closer and closer to home, our reaction is becoming almost scripted. We must speak about the unspeakable.We must try to heal the unhealable.And we must, for the sake of our sons and daughters, our childre...
Feb 13, 2026
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PETERS: Mayor's no good, very bad week could have been avoided
IT'S BEEN A NO GOOD, very bad week for the mayor of Kamloops but it could have gone much differently. Let's recap the last week for Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson.Last Friday, BC Supreme Court Justice Jacqueline Hughes rendered her written decision in Hamer-Jackson's first defamation crusade against Councillor Katie Neustaet...
Feb 06, 2026
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PETERS: In our hurry to Build Kamloops, let's not throw out our links to the past
KAMLOOPS IS A NOSTALGIC TOWN. We keep soft spots in our hearts for old buildings and infrastructure that we remember from years gone by. Take, for example, the outpouring of nostalgia connected with the Red Bridge, which burned down in 2024. That bridge was nice to look at but not so nice to use. Even if it hadn't been...
Jan 30, 2026
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PETERS: With cuts and deferrals, Kamloops council chooses short-term relief over long-term planning
WE ELECTED OUR CITY COUNCILLORS to make tough choices - sometimes choices between two bad options. Kamloops council was faced with just such a decision as it tackled its budget at a Committee of the Whole meeting this week.It was the proverbial rock and a hard place for councillors - choosing between emergency, short-t...
Jan 23, 2026
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PETERS: Can Peter Milobar win the leadership of the BC Conservatives? It's iffy
PETER MILOBAR has been a city councillor, a TNRD board chair, the longest serving mayor of Kamloops and an opposition MLA. His next step will potentially be the biggest one yet - he is running to lead BC's official opposition.Milobar has joined an increasingly crowded field of candidates to lead the BC Conservatives, a...
Jan 16, 2026
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PETERS: If Trump's morality is his only constraint, that's no constraint at all
PEOPLE FREQUENTLY ASK US why we spend so much time and energy on U.S. politics - and specifically on President Donald Trump. Trump Derangement Syndrome, they call it. He's living rent-free in our heads.This week gave us a good reminder why the entire world should be concerned with what's going on in Washington and Mar-...
Jan 09, 2026
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