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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: Focus on hometowns doesn't help address street chaos in Merritt - or anywhere
THE DEBATE LAUNCHED by Merritt's top cop about the hometowns of folks who are making trouble is somewhat perplexing and certainly doesn't help solve Merritt's problems. Staff Sgt. Josh Roda expressed frustration recently that a large portion of the people causing crime-related problems in Merritt are recent arrivals to...
Jul 10, 2026
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PETERS: City of Kamloops overall remuneration went up 20% in 2 years - are we okay with that?
IT'S TIME TO HAVE A HARD TALK about what is having the greatest impact on your City of Kamloops tax bill. Every year, the city issues its mandatory Statement of Financial Information report.The report can be a little dry unless you are a numbers person - and even if you only dabble in numbers, it is easy to misinterpre...
Jun 26, 2026
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PETERS: A great week of sports bringing people together
REMEMBER ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO, when we began to question what our neighbours were trying to say by flying the Canadian flag? In the teeth of COVID-19, some had co-opted the maple leaf as the symbol of a movement to free the country of vaccine rules.Thankfully, those times are gone and the flag is again rightfully recog...
Jun 19, 2026
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PETERS: Candidates for Kamloops city hall need to move beyond the oft-repeated tropes
BY OUR COUNT, there are now more than a dozen candidates who have declared their intentions to run for Kamloops council this fall. We have incumbents, candidates who have tried and failed before, and political newcomers.Add them to the three mayoral contenders and you get a surprising and encouraging amount of interest...
Jun 12, 2026
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PETERS: To replace the Red Bridge, the province presented 1 good option - and 2 bad ones
LAST WEEK, a contributor to our website's 'Sound Off' section asked whether it was really necessary to build a replacement for the Red Bridge.It seems the provincial government must have heard him.The province's month-long consultation period began this week and residents are being asked to weigh in on three options.Fi...
Jun 05, 2026
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PETERS: Smith needs to make Alberta sovereignty referendum the centre of an election campaign
THERE'S NO SUCH THING as a stupid question, we're always told, but we might have found one this week. "Should Alberta remain a province of Canada, or should the Government of Alberta commence the legal process required under the Canadian Constitution to hold a binding provincial referendum on whether or not Albert...
May 29, 2026
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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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