November 29, 2018

Editor: “Hey, dad, can we go to the Blazer’ game tonight?” “Sorry, son, but our taxes are going up 3.4 per cent.” “Hey, dad, let’s put up the Christmas tree this weekend.” “Sorry, son but . . .

November 29, 2018

Editor: Sometime this past spring, I wrote what was meant to be a cheeky letter to the editor suggesting that the gaping potholes in our city streets were actually good for the economy due to the. . .

November 29, 2018

Editor: Re: (‘Ride-hailing services should be on B.C. roads next year,’ Nov. 19): Shame on the NDP for putting its own agenda ahead of the people of B.C. The governing party is afraid to lose. . .

November 29, 2018

Editor: Myself and several of my colleagues are disappointed with the loss of the position of children’s librarian. Our children have benefited from having a consistent go-to person in the . . .

November 29, 2018

Do we really need to add three Mounties to the Kamloops force at a total cost — wages, benefits, equipment, etc. — of $600,000 per year? Are extended transit hours and more staff plowing snow . . .

November 29, 2018

During the recent civic election campaign, there was plenty of talk among the 23 candidates for mayor and council about the need to think outside the box in trying to keep liveability high and tax . . .

November 29, 2018

The Russian-Ukrainian naval clash in the Black Sea is not going to end up in a world war. Ukraine would love to be part of NATO, but the existing members won’t let it join. Why? Precisely . . .

November 27, 2018

It almost seems there’s something about putting on the three-cornered hat of Speaker of the B.C. Legislature that causes overheating of the brain underneath. B.C. Liberal MLA Linda Reid embarked . . .

November 27, 2018

Editor: Re: KTW’s article of Nov. 23 regarding a possible public market at Riverisde Park (‘Public market boosters selling memberships’): Why is Riverside Park still being considered? . . .

November 27, 2018

Editor: I was the driver of the Jeep that was involved in an accident on Nov. 20 on West Victoria Street. I want to express my deepest gratitude to those at the scene. The paramedics, . . .

November 27, 2018

Editor: The Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ “excuse me” windows plan to save Thompson and Chilcotin steelhead )which really wasn’t any sort of plan at all) limped into second-to-last place . . .

November 27, 2018

Editor: Re: (‘Council stares down provisional 3.4% hike,’ Nov. 21): I had to clean my glasses twice to make sure what I was reading was real. What a preposterous and abysmal thought. Even . . .

November 26, 2018

Editor: Re: (‘Doll dates delivered in Kamloops,’ Nov. 21): The story included a warning that mature subject matter was being discussed. Who at KTW permitted this and why didn’t the newspaper . . .

November 26, 2018

Editor: Re: (‘Doll dates delivered in Kamloops,’ Nov. 21): I take offense to the fact that you chose to run this article on the front page, providing free advertising to a business on a topic . . .

November 26, 2018

Editor: Re: (‘Doll dates delivered in Kamloops,’ Nov. 21): This is wrong on so many levels. It is disconcerting that the city licensing department perhaps did not do its homework when . . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: Reading the Nov. 7 story of former Kamloops deputy sheriff Kevin Johnston caught arranging sexual relations with someone he believed to be a teenager was truly disturbing (‘Former . . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: The veteran street signs are going up in the city. As a member of the Kamloops Heritage Commission, I want to thank everyone who helped get our project approved. To date, $9,500 has . . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: A recent KTW online poll found 55 per cent of respondents wanting city council to adopt a bylaw banning single-use plastic bags. This idea has come up previously when other communities . . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: Shame on Kamloops gas stations. We recently drove to Kelowna, where gas was $1.27 per litre. The only place in Kamloops with that price was Costco. Dan Perry Kamloops . . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: Why I’m excited about the possibilities presented by the referendum on electoral reform: I think it is terrific that we have a chance to seriously consider improving the way we choose . . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: It is a travesty that the children’s librarian position has been removed from the North Kamloops Library. When a small child is beginning to learn how to ask for help, having someone at. . .

November 22, 2018

Editor: Canada’s justice system does nothing for the innocent. Jessie Simpson was beaten with a baseball bat and will need care for the rest of his life. His family seemingly gets nothing for . . .

November 22, 2018

Anybody who has stood on a downtown street late on a cold winter’s night knows too well that frostbite could set in before a taxi arrives. Wait times of more than an hour are common when the bars. . .

November 22, 2018

The first legal pot store in B.C. and now home to a home-based doll brothel? As a friend from Vancouver quipped this week, “Kamloops is going nuts!” If this cutting-edge entrepreneurship doesn’. . .

November 22, 2018

“It's a suffering tape, it's a terrible tape,” U.S. President Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday, defending his refusal to listen to the recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi being murdered and. . .

November 20, 2018

The B.C. government’s latest adjustment of speed limits on rural highways is a case study in how modern politics and media run over the facts and leave them on the side of the road. You may have . . .

November 20, 2018

Editor: I take exception to Jeff Conners’ letter of Nov. 16 (‘The unsuccessful drug user as expert’) and find it barren of logic on a number of counts. First, former drug addicts and alcoholics. . .

November 20, 2018

Editor: Premier Horgan made a statement this week about the Transgender Day of Remembrance. He said, “At a time when the human rights of transgender people are under sustained attack in the . . .

November 15, 2018

No sooner had the provincial NDP government come through with a pilot project for its campaign promise of $10-a-day child care than the keyboard warriors were online, criticizing this landmark . . .

November 15, 2018

We are living through a remarkable transformation of Kamloops, block by block and neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Some is strikingly obvious. Some is more subtle. But the landscape of the city . . .

November 15, 2018

How odd. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sends an audio recording of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul to the governments of all Turkey’s . . .

November 14, 2018

Editor: What a terrible blow to the people of Kamloops with the pending closure of the Summit Medical Clinic. It was with great sadness that I recently said goodbye to those patients I got to . . .

November 14, 2018

Editor: It is heartening to read that the TRU Faculty Association has at last agreed to take part in the probe by the Canadian Association of University Teachers into the circumstances leading to. . .

November 14, 2018

Editor: The current challenge with drug education and expert knowledge is that our industry holds in higher regard people who have been wholly unsuccessful at drug use — the “I have had to . . .

November 14, 2018

Editor: In January, the city announced it was lowering fees to the Tournament Capital Centre to be competitive in the fitness market. In March, it was reported in KTW that yearly memberships . . .

November 13, 2018

This column has been hard on the B.C. NDP government’s favours to big labour in recent weeks. Its union monopoly on public construction is a discriminatory sellout that will be costing taxpayers . . .

November 12, 2018

Editor: A good example of false advertising can be found right here in KTW. Over the past weeks, ads have appeared stating “Time to Say Farewell to Your Local MLA”. Like many others, I am . . .

November 12, 2018

Editor: The Fair Vote ad in the Nov. 9 edition of KTW is misleading. The ad is endorsed by a half-dozen local leaders, some on city council. They list five reasons why they support proportional . . .

November 8, 2018

Editor: Despite doing the required research before presenting its recommendation to council on use of the former McArthur Island golf course, I believe the city’s park and recreation committee . . .

November 8, 2018

Editor: I watch people in wheelchairs and walkers try to use the Victoria Street and Third/Fourth avenue intersections with great difficulty. The sidewalks are barely wide enough. The city . . .

November 8, 2018

Three phone calls this week to my direct line here at KTW were from people asking specific questions about the referendum on electoral reform. Each of the three callers had received the envelope . . .

November 8, 2018

What is it about power that often leads a person to become what he or she once mocked? We see it in politics again and again as an opposition member in Ottawa or Victoria rightly calls out the . . .

November 7, 2018

Editor: I believe one of the hardest jobs the new Kamloops council faces is deciding when to follow the desires of citizens when they were asked for their opinions and when to do something else . . .

November 7, 2018

Editor: I agree with what Bob Wren wrote in his Oct. 19 letter about potholes. It seems the City of Kamloops is working by the Peter Principle, in that people are promoted to their level of . . .

November 7, 2018

Editor: One cannot help but agree with letter writer Bob Wren regarding potholes and road conditions in Kamloops (‘Show them the door, not the potholes,” Oct. 19): In doing my due diligence, I . . .

November 6, 2018

I grew up in a pretty homogeneous neighbourhood and went to schools where just about everybody looked like me. That’s just the way the world was — or so I thought. Sure, I heard of the poverty in. . .

November 6, 2018

The referendum on electoral reform has been among the most polarizing (and confusing) political issues in recent memory. Ballots that have been mailed to households must be returned by Nov. 30 . . .

November 1, 2018

It was either ignorant or irresponsible for those campaigning for Brexit (British exit from the European Union) two years ago to claim the Irish border would not be a problem. In fact, it may . . .

November 1, 2018

Society seems to have become a collective version of a panicky Basil Fawlty. Don’t mention the war. Or abortion. Or the homeless. Or gender. Or politics. Or addiction. Or religion. And, if you . . .

November 1, 2018

Editor: Re: (‘Church plans soiree to fund replacement organ’, Oct. 12): A great big thank you to KTW photographer Dave Eagles and reporter Sean Brady for the photo and article pertaining to . . .

November 1, 2018

Editor: Re: KTW editor Christopher Foulds’ column of Oct. 26 regarding Canada’s arms deal with Saudi Arabia (‘Yes ... No ... Maybe’): The writer presents two choices: cancel the arms sale to . . .

November 1, 2018

This month, Canada Post willing, British Columbians will be voting on whether or not to adopt a new way to elect our provincial government. One of the main arguments against our current first . . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: Never mind all the fear-mongering and disinformation being put forth in electoral referendum discussion. And never mind the consistently distorted results inherent in our present voting. . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: It is extremely frustrating to see the gross waste of taxpayer time and money on display in the 2018 referendum on electoral reform. British Columbia voters just took part in municipal . . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: On behalf of the Telus ambassadors, I would like to thank the people of Kamloops and the surrounding areas who gave so generously to the recent Telus garage and book sales. Thanks to . . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: While I appreciate that a private bus company — Ebus — has decided to take over some of the routes vacated by Greyhound, I would like to remind it that a significant number of Kamloops . . .

October 31, 2018

It’s been just over a year since Premier John Horgan executed the first of three policy shifts to put power into the hands of established political parties. Chapter one was reversing his campaign. . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: This past summer, my wife and I holidayed by driving through northern British Columbia, Yukon and Alaska. We were amazed with the Yukon provincial parks, with the amenities and costs . . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: Major political parties do not use the first past the post system when electing a new leader. Not even the B.C. Liberals, who are fighting to keep this antiquated voting system, used it. . .

October 31, 2018

Editor: The mail-in referendum on electoral reform is just so confusing. Maybe I’m just stupid, but the current B.C. NDP government wants proportional representation. Isn’t that what we have . . .

October 30, 2018

Halloween is nearly upon is and it is always a good idea to review safety tips, in this case courtesy of the Kamloops RCMP. With the excitement of Halloween, costumed kids sometimes forget their . . .

October 25, 2018

Editor: My friend and I just walked up and down the new Peterson Creek pathway. It is just stunning. Well done, City of Kamloops. I hope we can walk it year-round. Alea Thom Kamloops . . .

October 25, 2018

Editor: I would like to thank the City of Kamloops’ traffic-control department for installing audible pedestrian crossing signals at Renfrew Street and Tranquille Road and at Eighth Street and . . .

October 25, 2018

Editor: This past summer, there was an article published in KTW regarding an increase in illegal garbage dumping on back roads and the rising costs of disposing at the local landfill. However, . . .

October 25, 2018

It’s not often politicians from opposite sides of the House of Commons manage to appear weak, indecisive and hypocritical within days of each other. So it was that we found federal Defence . . .

October 25, 2018

There is a sense of deja vu in Kamloops as Mounties probe an incident in which a person was struck and killed by a vehicle, with the driver leaving the scene. As Kamloops Mounties search for the . . .

October 23, 2018

Editor: Someone close to me who suffers from debilitating anxiety and depression recently spoke to a government worker. “If you miss this appointment with the psychiatrist, if you miss any . . .

October 23, 2018

Editor: I have lived in Kamloops for 13 years. It is a thriving, diverse city with an expanding business profile, but the service provided by our national airline, Air Canada, holds us back and. . .

October 23, 2018

Editor: I am concerned that the recent city survey regarding entertainment requirements in Kamloops was slanted toward sports facilities. Kamloops very much needs to balance the facilities for . . .

October 23, 2018

There were some stunners, some mild surprises and plenty of as expected happenings on civic election night on Saturday. Perhaps the biggest shock was news that venerable Cache Creek Mayor John . . .

October 23, 2018

Maybe 30 per cent is just the way it will be in Kamloops, regardless of efforts to urge people to vote in municipal elections. Despite other communities putting Kamloops to shame during this past. . .

October 18, 2018

Editor: Volkow et al. (2014) in the New England Journal of Medicine provide evidence that the short-term use of marijuana makes it difficult to learn and retain information. There is also . . .