March 26, 2020

Editor: I asolutely agree with Cody O’Day’s letter of March 19 regarding the lack of disclosure of COVID-19 cases in the Interior Health region (‘Ministry’s privacy argument does not make sense’). . .

March 26, 2020

Editor: How is it that so many of us are self-isolating, our businesses are shut down and some may never again open, yet the supervised drug-use site downtown, two blocks from my home, has a big . . .

March 25, 2020

Editor: I am self-isolating at my out of town cabin. Last Saurday, I visited Kamloops to pick up a prescription and groceries for someone who is not well. I want to thank all those people who. . .

March 25, 2020

There’s been plenty of tone-deaf responses to this pandemic crisis that has enveloped us all, but it is difficult to find a more blatant example than that provided by the legal counsel for the . . .

March 24, 2020

Editor: I want to take a moment to ask a big favour from all of us frontline health-care workers. I know many people are at home and looking for stuff to do, but this is not the time to be on . . .

March 24, 2020

Editor: For the second day in a row recently, I observed groups of young people not observing safe social distances. Groups have ranged from five to 13 people. I saw a a group seated at a . . .

March 24, 2020

Editor: I was shopping on March 18 and was practising social distance. Other people were barging through without consideration of others. Please, people, show some common sense. Yvonne . . .

March 24, 2020

Editor: I know this is a difficult time for the restaurant industry, but I was shocked during a recent visit to a drive-thru. I witnessed a drive-thru window server use bare hands to take a . . .

March 19, 2020

In light of the worsening COVID-19 pandemic, Kamloops This Week feels it necessary and useful to continue to impress upon readers the need to be vigilant. We all need to heed the warnings, issued. . .

March 19, 2020

We are living in extraordinary times. We still do not know just how long the COVID-19 pandemic will last, nor how profoundly it will affect our society in general or our community specifically.. . .

March 19, 2020

Editor: Oh, my, what can I do? Much is cancelled or closed. Let’s use this opportunity to take advantage of a slowdown period. Restaurants and bars and theatres can take the opportunity to . . .

March 19, 2020

Editor: I hope the people hoarding grocery supplies and toilet paper are proud of themselves. As a senior who no longer drives, I walk — using a walker — every day to the store, only to find . . .

March 19, 2020

Editor: This moment in history must fully reflect how important each country is and demonstrates why we all must come together. We need to exchange ideas and have science and health experts . . .

March 19, 2020

Editor: Regarding Interior Health not specifying which communities are housing confirmed cases of COVID-19: I think it’s ridiculous that Interior Health states it is withholding the information. . .

March 19, 2020

Editor: My wife and I went shopping the other day at our usual grocery store and, to our surprise, not a roll of toilet paper was to be found. It was the same scenario at the pharmacy next door. . .

March 19, 2020

Editor: Re: Perry Grunenberg’s letter of March 11 (‘Government tied to project deaths’): There is a widely held belief about resource-sector development applications, that as soon as they have . . .

March 17, 2020

The provincial government has declared a public health emergency as the number of cases of COVID-19 soared this week. On Tuesday, 83 new cases — and three more deaths — were announced, bringing . . .

March 12, 2020

In the past week, I have received three calls and an email, all claiming there are one or two COVID-19 cases at Royal Inland Hospital that health officials are keeping secret from the public. . . .

March 12, 2020

Binyamin Netanyahu, or ‘Bibi,’ as everyone calls him, is the longest-serving prime minister in Israel’s history. He is still in office, despite the fact he has failed to win three elections in a . . .

March 12, 2020

Editor: My son, who has cerebral palsy and who frequents Royal Inland Hospital often, cannot walk as freely as others do and uses a walker to get around. Looking for parking is a nightmare as I. . .

March 12, 2020

Editor: I am frustrated with the lack of action from our school board with respect to a complaint of mine. I contacted the board in September 2019 about students at some of the schools using . . .

March 12, 2020

Editor: I am disappointed with members of Kamloops council. Canine owners in Dallas have been patiently waiting for a dog park, which we were led to believe was to be built this spring. Now . . .

March 12, 2020

Editor: I want to pass on a great, big, heartfelt thank you to Drake Cremation Services and its staff for how supportive and compassionate they all have been. When my wife passed away, they . . .

March 10, 2020

Tourism Kamloops has rightly been recognized for excellence in innovation when it was handed the BC Tourism Industry Innovation Award at last week’s BC Tourism Industry Conference in Victoria. . . .

March 10, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has run afoul of the language police. Last week, he publicly called the novel coronavirus the “Wuhan virus.” When challenged about this criminal violation of . . .

March 10, 2020

Editor: Considering the failure of the 2015 referendum on a performing-arts centre and given the apparent support of the new venture by Kamloops council, I think the present marketing begs the . . .

March 10, 2020

Editor: If the “yes” vote prevails in the April 4 arts centre referendum, it will be because “no” voters did not take the time to vote. The $45 million the city wishes to borrow will be paid . . .

March 10, 2020

Editor: Re: Alan Budreau’s letter of March 3 (‘Trudeau did not kill Teck’s Frontier mine proposal’): Whether Teck’s Frontier oilsands project was abandoned due to economic reasons or political . . .

March 10, 2020

Editor: I work downtown and have to travel through the West Victoria Street construction zone. There is a lane from which you must zipper merge into the northbound lane. Unfortunately, not . . .

March 6, 2020

Editor: In 1953, an enlightened government paid my passage to Australia. I was also given a living wage — nearly EU$1,000 for one year — to study to become an elementary teacher. All I had to. . .

March 6, 2020

Editor: I was at the recent presentation of electric vehicles and electric bikes, presented by the City of Kamloops. It was the usual format, designed to give taxpayers the feeling that . . .

March 6, 2020

Editor: I am a handicapped veteran who has lived on Thompson Drive in Valleyview for the past 46 years. My street is only about three-quarters of a mile long. This past winter has been a . . .

March 6, 2020

Editor: I called the 811 Health Link Line 811 at 9:15 a.m. one day this week. The call was answered quickly and I was asked for my contact information, including phone number, B.C. health . . .

March 5, 2020

No, you do not need to fill your garage with toilet paper, regardless of the impressive ply count. Nor do you need to hoard those instant Clorox sanitary wipes. And, for the love of God, put . . .

March 5, 2020

Turkey has opened the floodgates and soon Europe will be drowning in immigrants. “Hundreds of thousands have crossed and soon it will reach millions,” Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan . . .

March 3, 2020

Editor: I recently attended two events at Sandman Centre: We Will Rock You and Celtic Illusion. Both were great events. However, at the former, we sat in the first level in very uncomfortable . . .

March 3, 2020

Editor: Re: Jay Barlow’s letter of Feb. 26 (‘Fingering the Trudeaus for our troubles’): Once again, we see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau being blamed for something with which he had nothing to . . .

March 3, 2020

Editor: The Valleyview Community Association’s Owl Road landfill subcommittee was pleased to learn, in a recent KTW article, that Kamloops council “ ... is looking to add public input during . . .

March 3, 2020

British Columbia has a great education system, and school districts throughout the province strive to maintain B.C.’s position as a global leader in education by pioneering systemic changes that . . .

February 27, 2020

One person’s terrorist is another person’s freedom fighter, as the saying goes. But are those blockading legislature entrances, rail lines, ports, intersections and bridges protesters or land . . .

February 27, 2020

Earlier this month, the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, in one of its regular updates on the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), confirmed a woman had returned from China, travelled in a private vehicle. . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: I don’t live on Lorne Street, but I do visit my father a lot at Pioneer Landing. I have to say, those trains in the CP Rail yard idle a lot. It’s one thing for a train to idle for a . . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: Benjamin Franklin is quoted as saying, “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” To me, this epitomizes the concepts of experiential learning, or learning. . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: Parking concerning the proposed arts centre should be addressed because there is going to be a major problem. Where are drivers to park their vehicles when there are events taking place. . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: I love live theatre and live music productions and attend as often as I can. My concern with the proposed Kamloops Centre for the Arts is that too many people in the city are struggling. . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: ICBC can’t be losing a billion dollars a year or a good businessman would kick it to the curb. If part of my business was losing $50,000 a year, would I be smart to keep offering that . . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: On Family Day, we welcomed two new additions to our family — identical twin boys. We want to share our huge appreciation for Dr. Triessman, the staff of nurses, students and . . .

February 27, 2020

Editor: This week’s KTW online question asks readers about their use of the library. But it is missing an important fifth answer: “I use the library online.” A TNRD Library card gives one . . .

February 27, 2020

The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies the U.S. government was telling the American . . .

February 25, 2020

If nothing else, the internet has shown us that people can be much more negative online than they would be when speaking to someone in person or on the telephone. It seems the City of Kamloops’ . . .

February 25, 2020

Wednesday, Feb. 26, is Pink Shirt Day, the annual day to spread anti-bullying messages. KTW is pleased to reprint this editorial from last year as the message remains important. Another Pink . . .

February 25, 2020

Editor: Trudeau the senior gave the West the finger. Junior Trudeau won’t lift a finger to help the West. There have been more than 10,000 jobs lost in the oil and gas industry and Prime . . .

February 25, 2020

Editor: I read online at kamloopsthisweek.com that a third library is being considered for Kamloops. I was elated to read the news, as I was when the North Kamloops Library opened a decade ago . . .

February 24, 2020

Editor: The Wet’suwet’en uproar reinforces the double standard that exists in Canada when it comes to how governments view the interests of First Nations peoples and the rest of the folks that . . .

February 20, 2020

For Tomi Abriel, and many others, it is about recovery, not recrimination. Abriel is a Nova Scotia resident who has gone through that province’s mental-health court and told the Canadian Press in. . .

February 20, 2020

You’ve heard the myth of how to boil a frog, I’m sure. Supposedly, if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will instantly jump out, but if you place the frog in cool water and . . .

February 20, 2020

Editor: Recently, a parent of a Valleyview student posted on the Valleyview Community Facebook page. She was asking for feedback from other parents on a book Grade 10 English students at . . .

February 20, 2020

Editor: The lobby containing the ATMs in the Royal Bank on the North Shore has become a weekend shelter for the homeless. As an older man, I don’t feel very secure when I go to make a . . .

February 20, 2020

Editor: Re: Kamloops This Week’s front page story of Feb. 7 (‘ICBC to introduce no-fault insurance’): Why is it that we remain the last province in Canada to get on board and offer the freedom . . .

February 20, 2020

Editor: The Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs claim the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline crosses their traditional lands and they are refusing permission for this to occur. They have a case.. . .

February 20, 2020

Editor: Canada is more concerned about politically correct tolerance than with saving the lives of its own people during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. Canada has refused to ban flights . . .

February 18, 2020

Both the protesters who demonstrated recently in the intersection of Summit Drive and McGill Road in Kamloops and those calling for police to quell the noise and allow the Coastal GasLink natural . . .

February 18, 2020

As this column is written, ongoing protests in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs continue. So does inaction at all levels of government. Both Premier John Horgan and Prime Minister . . .

February 18, 2020

Editor: The Canada Games Aquatic Centre at the Tournament Capital Centre will close for six months later this year as maintenance is conducted. In my lifetime, Kamloops has gone from four . . .

February 17, 2020

Editor: I have been a proud resident of Kamloops for the past six years and I am grateful I have the opportunity to travel by air as part of my work and for pleasure. I have, however, . . .

February 17, 2020

Editor: On Valentine’s Day evening, my partner and I saw the play The Love List, which was performed by the Kamloops Players at the small Stage House Theatre on the North Shore. Until that . . .

February 13, 2020

There are many studies that examine the benefits that can be derived from the growing practise of skim-reading — the opposite of deep reading, during which the brain commands the eyes to scan an . . .

February 13, 2020

The latest in a series of information meetings on the proposed Kamloops Centre for the Arts was held this week, with the City of Kamloops hosting two gatherings — one on the North Shore and one . . .

February 13, 2020

Editor: The lack of visible road lanes and directional arrows on our streets is absolutely unacceptable. Econo-grade paint isn’t working. This is a safety issue, especially for visitors to . . .

February 13, 2020

Editor: I am neither an employee of Western Canada Theatre or Kamloops Symphony Orchestra, nor do I represent them or their opinions on the proposed Kamloops Centre for the Arts. I am an . . .

February 13, 2020

Editor: When I first read the story about Rick Farr’s firewood woes in KTW last September (‘Man’s ‘retirement’ fund tied up in massive wood seizure’), I thought, “Well, good for you, Rick. Here . . .

February 13, 2020

Editor: In all the years I’ve lived on Lorne Street, I’ve never been more miserable due to CP Rail’s incessant and unnecessary idling of its trains. CP leaves its engines parked at the closest . . .