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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: One big - though expensive - step forward for Kamloops
THIS WAS AN INTERESTING WEEK for a ground-breaking at the site of the future Kamloops Centre for the Arts on Fourth Avenue. It's a project that could cost as much as $200 million but one that will, along with the Kelson Group's City Gardens, transform the character of the Kamloops downtown.It was almost exactly 10 year...
Nov 28, 2025
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PETERS: With 5 years of big tax hikes, has the relationship between city hall and Kamloops citizens turned toxic?
FOR MANY YEARS, Kamloops council would try to keep its annual property tax increases right around the rate of increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).In layperson's terms, CPI measures the prices of everything households spend money on.If it's not reasonable to think our taxes will be flat year after year, it is rea...
Nov 21, 2025
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PETERS: Showing residential school denialists their hatred is not welcome in our community
A NEST OF RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL DENIALISTS was treated to a true Kamloops welcome this week.Some of the leading figures pushing to whitewash the horrors of Canada's residential school system slithered into the city for public talks.They were joined by the two OneBC MLAs, people who were elected as BC Conservatives but lef...
Nov 14, 2025
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PETERS: Justice was simply unattainable for the TRU volleyball players
THERE WILL NEVER BE A WAY to prove what really happened in the cab of Colval Abbinett's pickup truck seconds before it slammed into a small car on McGill Road two years ago.That collision killed Owyn McInnis and forever changed the lives of Riley Brinnen and Owen Waterhouse.Those young men and their families will never...
Nov 07, 2025
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PETERS: What could make someone want to leave Kamloops? Inadequate health care
HAVING LIVE IN KAMLOOPS for almost 20 years, it's fair to say my wife and I are committed to this community - in spite of all its flaws.There are only a few factors that could ever compel us to leave.The crime we're seeing in this city is not one of them. We're not about to move to a smaller community and, in every Can...
Oct 24, 2025
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PETERS: Shopping local cures most supply chain headaches
THE SILVER LINING around some dark economic clouds over the past five years is we're all getting a crash course in basic supply-and-demand economics.During the COVID-19 pandemic, it was the demand side of the supply-and-demand equation that went out of control.People were so uncertain about what was happening and what ...
Oct 17, 2025
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PETERS: Surrance Myers didn't have to die in a Williams Lake RCMP cell
A REPORT RELEASED THIS WEEK into a 2022 in-custody death in Williams Lake is absolutely maddening because it reveals so many different points when the tragedy could have been prevented.Surrance Myers, a 21-year-old Indigenous man, died in a Williams Lake RCMP cell three years ago.He was lodged there after a late-night ...
Oct 10, 2025
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PETERS: Will next year's Kamloops mayor's race be deja vu back to 2022?
WITH COUNCILLOR MIKE O'REILLY the first challenger out of the gate for the mayor's chair, the unofficial municipal campaign has already begun - more than a year before voters actually go to the polls.The two-term councillor was backed by a throng of supporters, including former mayors Terry Lake and Ken Christian, when...
Oct 03, 2025
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PETERS: 'Big tent' parties sound good in theory, but are tough to maintain in practice
"THIS IS A 'BIG TENT' PARTY."Political parties love to say that to communicate how open they are to various diverse perspectives and healthy debate within the walls of their tent.It sounds nice, but putting those ideals into action is often much more difficult.Take the BC Conservatives - who have, since absor...
Sep 26, 2025
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PETERS: Like a trip across the Red Bridge, the rebuild process has been slow and uneven
IT WAS A YEAR AGO that Kamloops and Tk'emlúps awoke to find the Red Bridge that had connected our two communities for generations was gone.Its smoking embers had splashed into the South Thompson River, destroyed by an arsonist's spark.Twelve months later, little has changed at the site.The remnants of the bridge...
Sep 19, 2025
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PETERS: Think what you want to think, say what you want to say about Charlie Kirk's death
THE MURDER OF FAR-RIGHT POLEMICIST Charlie Kirk this week rocked the North American political establishment to its core.If you really feel you need to, you can find very graphic video of Kirk's shooting quite easily online.Many would have found the footage difficult to avoid in the moments between the shooting and the ...
Sep 12, 2025
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PETERS: Probing questions more constructive than uninformed takes on fire response
IT'S A SKETCHY PROPOSITION for armchair experts to tell actual experts how to do their jobs, but we do it all the time.We think we could be better teachers, better urban planners, better hockey referees than those who have years of experience and training.Maybe even better news anchors.Most of the time, we're fooling o...
Sep 05, 2025
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PETERS: Provincial foot-dragging on Red Bridge replacement contributing to Kamloops gridlock
ROAD CONSTRUCTION IS A FACT of summertime life in any Canadian city.Our seasonal changes are brutal on pavement, which means it needs to be patched and refurbished more frequently than it does in kinder climates.Potholes aren't great here in Kamloops, but they're much worse in cities like Edmonton and Winnipeg.Not only...
Aug 29, 2025
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PETERS: Feucht events are worship concerts - but who are they worshipping?
THIS WEEK, West Kelowna became the latest community to deny Christian singer Sean Feucht a permit to hold a concert in a municipal facility.If this were any other singer, West Kelowna's decision could raise eyebrows as a potential infringement on freedoms of expression, assembly and worship.But this isn't any other sin...
Aug 22, 2025
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PETERS: Where's the vision for health care in Kamloops?
ONE OF THE PRIMARY TASKS people in management need to undertake is setting a vision for their organization.They may consult with their staff, but managers have to be the ones to articulate a strategy for their departments and make sure it gets implemented.For how bloated the management class is in Interior Health, it's...
Aug 15, 2025
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PETERS: With Hot Nite in the City, we celebrate our freedom and scorn more logical forms of transportation
HEAD DOWNTOWN THIS WEEKEND and you will find a whirlwind of activity for our little city. At Riverside, it's time once again for Pork in the Park - Ribfest, that annual celebration of barbecue that keeps our bellies full and our sky smoky. On the opposite end of the healthy lifestyle scale is the annual dragon boat reg...
Aug 08, 2025
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PETERS: A clear glimpse into city hall dysfunction
VERY EARLY ON in their careers, young journalists learn this important truth about news releases generated by companies and organizations - what they purposefully conceal is often more important than what they reveal.Certainly, there were some things concealed in the City of Kamloops news release this week - but what w...
Aug 01, 2025
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PETERS: Shedding the 'Crime Capital' title no reason for Kamloops to rest on our laurels
WE TALK ABOUT CRIME using two methods in Kamloops.One is anecdotal, sharing stories from people and businesses who have fallen victim.The second is more empirical, through statistics and reports.Neither method is perfect, as they can both hide as much as they reveal.For example on the statistical side, we learned this ...
Jul 25, 2025
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