July 4, 2021

First the “heat dome,” with temperatures in the mid-to-high 40s Celsius in many parts of western North America for up to a week (49.6 C in Lytton and above 47 C in Kamloops). Then, when the . . .

June 29, 2021

The legislature is empty, no longer awake, but the premier has promises to break — and miles of questions he cannot shake. Yes, Premier John Horgan appears to have broken his promise to Kamloops . . .

June 29, 2021

Editor: Re: Maureen Light’s letter of June 16 (‘Have we been defeated by the criminals?’): Kudos to Light for raising a contentious issue in Kamloops. Why would the city attempt any . . .

June 29, 2021

Since the Kamloops Indian Residential School news broke, essentially confirming what many First Nations people have known all along, the country has been rightly gripped by the horror of Indigenous. . .

June 29, 2021

Editor: June 21 was National Aboriginal Day and someone at work suggested I watch a documentary called My Legacy. If I could sum it up, I’d call it the story of how residential schools shut . . .

June 29, 2021

Editor: I need to make an apology for a term I used at a recent Kamloops council meeting. When searching for the right word to describe our past community attempts to get a car-sharing going, I. . .

June 23, 2021

In the Kamloops-Thompson School District, the first of 14 graduation ceremonies began in May at South Kamloops secondary. Graduation took place over five 13-hour days, allowing each student to . . .

June 20, 2021

Editor: A recent W5 program about Canadian physicians and the despicable means behind which the "incompetents" are sheltered made my skin crawl. Read about it by clicking here. Any of. . .

June 19, 2021

Editor: Carrie McAstocker is not alone in her need for more care from Interior Health (‘Carrie is fighting for her independence’). I have multiple sclerosis and live with my cat. I used to get . . .

June 19, 2021

Editor: I'm in mourning. My heart is broken for that tall city icon that long stood sentry over a busy Sahali intersection at Columbia Street and McGill Road. A magnificent mature ponderosa . . .

June 19, 2021

Editor: I wish to express my family’s gratitude for the excellent end-of-life care everyone on 5 South at Royal Inland Hospital provided to my father. Their kindness, compassion and . . .

June 18, 2021

Editor: I read with great interest the June 16 story regarding the ever-declining service quadriplegic Carrie McAstocker receives from Interior Health (‘Carrie is fighting for her independence’).. . .

June 18, 2021

Editor: On June 2, Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said the Pope needs to issue an apology for the role the Catholic Church played in Canada’s residential school system. And, of course. . .

June 18, 2021

Editor: Re: Maureen Light’s letter of June 16 (‘Have we been defeated by the criminals?’): Kudos to Light for raising a contentious issue in Kamloops. Why would the city attempt any . . .

June 18, 2021

Editor: Re: KTW’s story of June 16 detailing a quadriplegic’s problems in securing consistent help from care-aides (‘Carrie is fighting for her independence’): I can vouch for Carrie Astocker’s. . .

June 18, 2021

Editor: Around the city, I have seen and visited different memorials to the 215 children whose collective “voice” has moved the acknowledgement of the atrocities of the Indian Residential School . . .

June 16, 2021

Normally it happens in August, when wicked people all over the Northern Hemisphere temporarily stop doing evil things to take their children to the beach and enjoy the last of the summer. With no . . .

June 15, 2021

The TNRD wants to build a third library in Kamloops, across from Aberdeen Mall, to the north. When we posted the story to our Facebook page, it became a very popular topics of conversation, with . . .

June 15, 2021

Editor: I’d like to correct some misinformation quoted by city staff in regards to a KTW story on a trail in Peterson Creek being restored to its natural state by city crews. Jeff Putnam of the. . .

June 15, 2021

Editor: Criminals are winning. Is downtown Kamloops safe anymore? Businesses are repeatedly burgled and theft of bikes is on the rise, with chop shops operating. Apparently, the criminal . . .

June 15, 2021

Editor: Congratulations to Kamloops This Week for its five awards at this year’s 2021 Ma Murray Awards, which annually honour excellence in community journalism in B.C. and the Yukon. KTW . . .

June 9, 2021

I would like to dedicate this column to the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and surrounding First Nations bands and address the heartbreaking news of the discovery of the remains of 215 children near the . . .

June 9, 2021

Editor: I have written a song to honour the 215 children whose remains were found near the former residential school at Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. The song was inspired by a protest song of the . . .

June 8, 2021

Editor: Every human being is born into a society and from his earliest years is molded by that society. For the First Nations people, education was a life-long process passed on by the family, . . .

June 6, 2021

Editor: As a former MP who represented Kamloops, I increasingly feel ashamed by the information being revealed of the story behind the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. I was a charter. . .

June 6, 2021

Editor: Until recently, I was very proud to say I was born and raised in Kamloops (Brocklehurst, actually) in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s as the child of immigrants from Rumania. We were part of. . .

June 3, 2021

“I see a huge and growing gap between the rhetoric and the reality,” International Energy Agency head Faith Birol said two weeks ago, but he despaired a bit too soon. On May 26, a Dutch court . . .

June 1, 2021

I asked the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kamloops and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vancouver for comment on Tk’emlups te Secwépemc’s announcement that the remains of 215 children had been found . . .

June 1, 2021

The Kamloops-Thompson board of education sends its deepest sympathies to Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc and all Indigenous communities impacted by the discovery of the remains of 215 children on the . . .

June 1, 2021

Editor: Last week, news broke that the remains of 215 children were found buried on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. I was in my early 20s the first time I visited . . .

May 30, 2021

Editor: My heart is breaking as I have just read your coverage of the mass graves found on and at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. As much as it is painful to see and know this, I. . .

May 26, 2021

Poland Prime Minister Mateus Morawiecki condemned the “hijacking” of the Ryanair jet on the orders of Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on May 23, accusing him of a “reprehensible act of state. . .

May 26, 2021

First, three lies. The Gaza offensive has yielded “unprecedented military gains,” said Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz. The ceasefire on Friday amounted to a “victory” for the Palestinian . . .

May 26, 2021

Editor: Thank you for the excellent article on the pilot project proposed for Riverside Park, which will see Tourism Kamloops organize rentals of watersports and other equipment and the operation. . .

May 25, 2021

There was a sudden sound, like someone had rung the doorbell. The dog barked and my 10-year-old stepdaughter ran to the front door. She opened it to find an empty doorstep. “Someone ding-dong . . .

May 25, 2021

Editor: Re: (‘TNRD wants non-local commercial truck ban on Highway 5A,’ April 24): I find it alarming that the Thompson-Nicola Regional District board would support such a ban. Why should . . .

May 25, 2021

Editor: Kami the Trout was unveiled in 1967, after which the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce had it copyrighted. Why not bring back the goodwill ambassador Kami the Trout, which was known . . .

May 24, 2021

The birth rates are falling fast in all the world’s more prosperous countries, but the generation now in their middle years has not yet grasped what that means for its later years. If they end up. . .

May 19, 2021

Editor: I have lived on the North Shore for the majority of my 23 years. I’ve noticed little improvements to things my neighbours and myself use and large improvements for people new to the . . .

May 19, 2021

Editor: I was pleased to see last week’s four-page coverage of National Nursing Week. It was a very appropriate acknowledgment as nurses continue to provide yeoman support during the ongoing . . .

May 18, 2021

Has society become so woke as to paint business owners victimized by crime as the bad guys? It would seem so, based on a good number of social media comments from the crowd I refer to as the “. . .

May 18, 2021

Editor: During National Nursing Week (May 10 to May 16), I had to make use of their services in the emergency department at Royal Inland Hospital. I commend them for their calm and kind, yet . . .

May 18, 2021

Editor: Re: The proposal to ban non-local commercial truck traffic on Highway 5A: I have been driving truck for 32 years and can say the large number of truck traffic on Highway 5A consists of . . .

May 17, 2021

“We didn’t want this conflict, but now that it’s started, it has to end with a sustained period of quiet,” said Mark Regev, spokesman for Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. “That can only . . .

May 14, 2021

Objective allies generally don’t even talk to each other. They don’t have common values, their ultimate goals may be completely incompatible and they often hate each other. But they share some . . .

May 13, 2021

Last September, I put out a call to action, asking you to consider how each of us can positively influence the kind of experience we have in our backyards, streets, neighbourhoods and community. . . .

May 13, 2021

May 11 was Census Day in Canada. Did you manage to finish the online questionnaire by that deadline? It may seem like a hassle, especially if you were asked to complete the long form survey, but . . .

May 13, 2021

Editor: Re: (‘A call for City of Kamloops to even pandemic-relief playing field,” April 28): Restaurants downtown have been given much support by the city during the pandemic via help with . . .

May 13, 2021

Editor: A big thank you to City of Kamloops gardeners who have created an amazing array of multi-coloured tulips of different sizes in the large cement planters on Lorne Street. The flowers . . .

May 13, 2021

Editor: It comes as no surprise that we are being made aware of the mess — realized and complained about for many years by many residents — at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District. It has been. . .

May 6, 2021

Editor: As I was watching a film crew shooting on Victoria Street last week, I was directed to walk around the scene. It is encouraging to see this happening. As I continued on my walk, I also . . .

May 6, 2021

Editor: Re: (‘TNRD to decide how to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief funding,’ April 28): I think it is shocking that the Thompson-Nicola Regional District would even . . .

May 6, 2021

Editor: Now that bicycles have become a really big thing again, I’m really hoping the city will restart to work on bike lanes. We bought electric bikes this year, sold our old pedal bikes in . . .

May 5, 2021

A lengthy discussion at city council on Tuesday (May 4) about the issues of homelessness, addictions and mental health included many diverse views, but ended with the same conclusion — addressing . . .

May 4, 2021

If you want to know what is happening in schools, just ask the students. In 2018, SD73 launched the District Student Advisory Council, which consists of two representatives from every secondary . . .

May 3, 2021

Napoleon Bonaparte doesn’t come up much in conversation these days, which is hardly surprising given that he has been dead for two centuries. On the other hand, this week it will be exactly 200 . . .

April 28, 2021

Editor: I read this article — ‘TNRD to decide how to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in pandemic relief funding’ — and I feel that a boardroom is far from the best use of pandemic relief . . .

April 28, 2021

Editor: I am writing about the obvious gaping hole in our province’s COVID-19 plan. “Avoid unnecessary travel” is the political statement of the year, so why is it that every third vehicle I . . .

April 28, 2021

Editor: A heartfelt thank you to the person who turned in my lost wallet to the BC Transit lost and found in Kamloops. It was such a relief to have it returned intact. I had dropped it while on. . .

April 28, 2021

Editor: I recently got vaccinated against COVID-19 at a clinic at the Tournament Capital Centre. They ran a fantastic operation. I did as I was told, arriving 10 minutes before my appointment. . . .

April 26, 2021

To say that as a society, we have a challenge with mental wellness, is to vastly understate the seriousness of a health crisis that is raging out of control. An epidemic before COVID-19, the . . .

April 25, 2021

Editor: Re: Chris Kempling’s Faith column of April 14 (‘Assisted suicide: An admission of failure?’): Assisted suicide is actually an admission of pragmatism and reality. Palliative means two . . .

April 21, 2021

Editor: KTW global affairs columnist Gwynne Dyer needs to get out of writing about the horse and buggy technology and write about what is really happening in the world of electronics, . . .

April 21, 2021

Editor: The city’s plan for curbside organic waste collection is a bad idea. For many years here in Kamloops, citizens have been urged to compost on their own and a great many have done so, . . .

April 21, 2021

Editor: My 10-year-old son Ryder was eager to continue with his goal of running the 10K Boogie, which we did recently. Thank you to Jo Berry and the running group of wonderful ladies for the . . .

April 20, 2021

If Dr. Bonnie Henry gave permission, I would hug all of the moms and dads I know, along with those caring for seniors. The pandemic has put us all in the difficult position of survival mode — . . .

April 14, 2021

Editor: Re: (‘Look up: See and hear the buzz on Honey+Hive,’ April 7): I’m particularly concerned with the health of the hive in Southgate as there are no pollinator meadows around this . . .

April 14, 2021

Editor: As a Kamloops taxpayer, I feel conflicted about the idea of curbside organic waste collection. I’ve seen it in action, specifically in Richmond, where I visit family. It works great . . .

April 14, 2021

My daughter and her family recently relocated to the downtown area, primarily because it brought her closer to her work and the many amenities she, her husband and daughters enjoy. Leaving the . . .

April 14, 2021

Private member’s bills rarely end up as legislation, but Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod should nonetheless be commended for introducing a bill that would shine a much-needed spotlight on. . .

April 12, 2021

Editor: While I appreciate the effort Health Minister Adrian Dix has put into meeting the demands of the pandemic in B.C over the last year, it must be obvious to him that what he and Provincial . . .

April 7, 2021

Editor: I am a retail employee, but not an essential worker, and I feel the need to let the public in on a few issues I’ve been seeing as the pandemic drags on. When stores have posted capacity. . .