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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: Maintaining Stuart Wood is expensive. Tearing it down would cost us much more
THE SCARIEST ASPECT of this Halloween, to many Kamloops residents, was the prospect of the former Stuart Wood Elementary School at Third Avenue and St. Paul Street being torn to the ground.There's a non-zero chance that might just come to pass. That's why a group of concerned residents rallied on the front lawn of the ...
Nov 6, 2026
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PETERS: BC, Kamloops swing dramatically back to normal and boring
PLENTY OF ADJECTIVES have been used to describe BC Premier-designate Lorne Doerkson both before and since his Conservatives swept the NDP from office last weekend. Hard-working. Plain-spoken. Well-respected.The highest compliment paid to Doerkson throughout the election campaign was that he seemed normal.That allayed p...
Oct 30, 2026
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PETERS: NDP's disregard for BC Interior election races doesn't serve anyone well
POLITICAL PARTIES only have so much money, so much time and so many volunteers, so it's understandable when they focus their resources in areas where they think they have the best chance at success. Think of the Greens zeroing in on Vancouver Island. If they win two or three of those ridings, it's far more advantageous...
Oct 23, 2026
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PETERS: Even before Halloween, election season is spooky enough
TWO WEEKS BEFORE HALLOWEEN and many in BC have already had enough of the door-to-door schtick. Double election season means we're twice as likely to see candidates canvassing residential neighbourhoods for votes.Instead of the homeowners giving out treats, though, it's the ones ringing the doorbells who are promising t...
Oct 16, 2026
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PETERS: Quick switch to pocketbook issues shows how flimsy Eby's election justification was
HOW DID THIS PROVINCIAL ELECTION campaign switch so quickly from being all about fighting Trump to being about who can give us the best deal on car insurance? It's like the discourse shifted from the news on CNN to the commercials on CNN.The reason for the change, of course, is because the initial justification for the...
Oct 9, 2026
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PETERS: A chorus of truth will always drown out a tiny group preaching hate
WHEN A TRUCK DROVE into a group of elders outside Tsawwassen Mills mall on Wednesday, the kneejerk reaction was to assume it was an intentional attack. Authorities were quick to clarify it appears to have been a terrible accident caused by a driver experiencing a medical event.That won't give community members and fami...
Oct 2, 2026
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PETERS: In the Kamloops council vote, 'no incumbents' is too simple
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, former media colleague Brett Mineer posted an astute little column entitled, "The trouble with 'common sense' politics." Mineer pointed out how candidates who trumpet their common-sense approach are being naive to the very complex issues and problems they will be trying to solve once th...
Sep 25, 2026
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PETERS: Only the NDP government wants an election. That's why you can bet on it happening
THERE IS NO REASON for B.C. to be thrown into a provincial election campaign right now except pure partisan gain for the NDP. And so, we have to believe we are absolutely heading to the polls.If David Eby asks the Lieutenant-Governor to dissolve parliament and drop the writ, his public justification will revolve around...
Sep 18, 2026
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PETERS: We could use more leaders like Dieter
THERE COULD NOT BE A MORE STARK CONTRAST in public figures than the two we have seen venerated in different circles this week. On one hand, there is the American pundit Charlie Kirk, felled by an assassin's bullet one year ago this week.Kirk was outspoken and bombastic. He thrived on getting people to disagree with him...
Sep 11, 2026
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PETERS: Did council take middle ground or refuse to make a decision on Upper Sahali proposal?
ONE OF THE WAYS you can tell a city council is nearing its end of life is when it starts backing off of big decisions. That's partly understandable - a council will have an instinct toward not binding future councillors with the impacts of what the outgoing group has done.On the flip side of that coin, big decisions in...
Sep 4, 2026
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PETERS: Suggesting wealthy people get more voting power is wrong - and un-Canadian
ONE OF THE WEALTHIEST PEOPLE IN CANADA has a proposal to overhaul our voting system. Tobi Lutke's proposal is to weigh people's votes based on how much income tax they pay.In other words, wealthy people would have more say come election time than the rest of us.People living in poverty, who make so little they don't pa...
Aug 28, 2026
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PETERS: On camping, the environment and personal ethics
I SAW A POST ONLINE recently by someone admitting they were struggling with the ethics of towing their RV to go out camping at a time when North America seems to be on fire. They said they knew their personal contribution to climate change is a drop in the bucket compared to big polluters, but they found the idea irkso...
Aug 21, 2026
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PETERS: A long way to go, but crime trends in Kamloops are heading in the right direction
EVERY YEAR AROUND THIS TIME, Statistics Canada releases its overview of criminal activity across the country, measuring it with something called the Crime Severity Index. The Crime Severity Index puts weight on certain crime categories to determine which cities are more dangerous than others.The average is always 100. ...
Aug 14, 2026
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PETERS: What can we do to help others - and ourselves - during another devastating wildfire season?
IN ANOTHER SUMMER lost to wildfires and smoke, life can sometimes feel kind of hopeless. Many of us moved to the BC Interior - or stay here - because of the recreation and beauty this area provides us during the summertime.Fires and choking smoke can make it impossible to enjoy that part of our lives.Even worse, it's d...
Aug 7, 2026
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PETERS: Good news for Kamloops' cultural infrastructure
A BIG THANK-YOU to all the taxpayers in the rest of Canada this week. After all, it was all those taxpayers who pitched in to the federal government's Strategic Priorities Fund - a fund that paid off big time for the Kamloops Centre for the Arts.Thursday, the arts centre project was announced as the recipient of a $7-m...
Jul 31, 2026
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PETERS: Everything comes with a price
A PART OF AGING and hopefully gaining more wisdom about the world is realizing everything has a pricetag. Even that which we take for granted as free for everyone - at least here in North America - carries a price. That price can often be steep.Take, for example, clean air.Once again this summer, we in the BC Interior ...
Jul 24, 2026
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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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