August 9, 2019

Editor: Re: The Ask An Addict column in the June 19 edition of KTW (‘Many of us are living in the shadows’): After reading the column, I was horrified to learn that addiction is something to . . .

August 9, 2019

Editor: Should Americans be permitted to purchase prescription medications at Canadian prices in Canada? Of course. Canadians and Americans have always been great trading partners in a . . .

August 9, 2019

Editor: The servers at the Fox ‘n Hounds Pub in Sahali Mall did Kamloops proud on the night of Aug. 2. I am writing to publicly thank them for their hospitality and kindness. My 10-year-old . . .

August 8, 2019

The creeping growth of automation in our retail environment has led to heated debate on social media. My boss, KTW editor Christopher Foulds, got the discussion started last Friday by writing . . .

August 8, 2019

Four mass shootings in the U.S. in about a week have left 31 dead in Gilroy, Calif., El Paso, Tex.; Dayton, Ohio and Brooklyn, N.Y. Before we proclaim “that couldn’t happen here,” don’t forget . . .

August 8, 2019

God knows what novelist V.S. Naipaul really meant a half- century ago when he called India “the wounded civilization’ in his travelogue-cum-psychoanalysis book about the home of his ancestors. . . .

August 7, 2019

Sorry to interrupt your peaceful, smoke-free summer, but the dark clouds of confusion and contradiction gathering on the horizon are the first signs of a looming federal election. Prime Minister . . .

August 6, 2019

Editor: Late last Sunday, I sent the following message to Mayor Ken Christian, with copies to each city councillor: My wife and I returned to Kamloops in June of 2018 after an absence of many . . .

August 6, 2019

Editor: With the City of Kamloops considering another major capital expenditure, surely widening Tranquille Road to Kamloops Airport would be a top priority. The project should include a . . .

August 6, 2019

Editor: We have heard this before, but it has to be said again. I have lived in North Kamloops for the past 50 years and our roads are in the worst condition ever. As Mayor Ken Christian is . . .

August 6, 2019

Editor: While visiting Kamloops last year, I viewed the downtown murals and enjoyed them tremendously. I couldn’t help noticing the walls of the Lansdowne Parkade and thinking they would be a . . .

August 6, 2019

Editor: Last weekend, I took my dog to the new dog park in McDonald Park. We were looking forward to off-leash time, but it didn’t happen. I have a walker and there are only two entrances. . . .

August 6, 2019

Editor: I am writing to let people in Kamloops with mobility issues know that we may finally get work done on our crosswalks and wheelchair ramps. I’m waiting for a date and time on a two-hour . . .

August 5, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW editor Christopher Foulds’ column of Aug. 2 (‘Automatic for the people’), in which he writes about the inevitability of automation like self-serve checkouts prevailing in the end.. . .

August 5, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW editor Christopher Foulds’ column of Aug. 2 (‘Automatic for the people’), in which he writes about the inevitability of automation like self-serve checkouts prevailing in the end.. . .

August 5, 2019

Editor: Let me express my thanks to archeologist Joanne Hammond for her illuminating column of July 24 in KTW (Dig it: Proof is under the pavement’) that helps us address her concluding question:. . .

August 5, 2019

Editor: Re: Archeologist Joanne Hammond’s July 24 column in KTW ('Dig it: The roof is under the pavement’): Kamloops council should take a moment to read this interesting, informative and . . .

August 5, 2019

Editor: Our community is not perfect but recently, when I needed help, more than a few reached out to ask if I was OK. I was headed to work when the clutch on my car shut down, leaving me and . . .

August 2, 2019

Editor: Last weekend, I took my dog to the new dog park in McDonald Park. We were looking forward to off-leash time, but it didn’t happen. I have a walker and there are only two entrances. . . .

August 2, 2019

Editor: While visiting Kamloops last year, I viewed the downtown murals and enjoyed them tremendously. I couldn’t help noticing the walls of the Lansdowne Parkade and thinking they would be a . . .

August 2, 2019

Editor: Late last Sunday, I sent the following message to Mayor Ken Christian, with copies to each city councillor: My wife and I returned to Kamloops in June of 2018 after an absence of many . . .

August 1, 2019

The math is staring us in the face every time we walk into a store in Kamloops and beyond. The additions and subtractions mean more machines and fewer people greeting customers. But is the . . .

August 1, 2019

When it comes to provincial enforcement of illegally operating cannabis shops, it appears the playing field is not level. Consider the raids this week of what are believed to be the final two . . .

August 1, 2019

The anti-government demonstrations in Hong Kong are now eight weeks old and still going strong, but the level of violence is rising. A lot of the violence can be blamed on the police and triad . . .

July 30, 2019

The West Victoria Street reconstruction project is a massive undertaking with major impacts. Just ask business owners and residents who live in the area and are affected daily by the project. . . .

July 30, 2019

Maybe it’s an inability to focus or perhaps there is a lot in my mind, but I couldn’t decide on a single topic for this column. So, friends, neighbours and children of all ages, I am touching on . . .

July 30, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW’s editorial of July 17 (‘UBCM continues to be tone deaf on China reception issue’): Good on some of our politicians. Hopefully, not many will attend the China-sponsored . . .

July 30, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW’s editorial of July 17 (‘UBCM continues to be tone deaf on China reception issue’): The editorial suggested that the Union of B.C. Municipalities should cancel the reception and. . .

July 30, 2019

Editor: I am concerned about the Cooper Family Foundation’s development plans for the former Bowlertime/Dirty Jersey property at Eighth Street and York Avenue in North Kamloops. Proposed is a . . .

July 30, 2019

Editor: Beauty and colour are everywhere around our city and in our parks. What a joy the colour brings to all of us. I am sending a big thank you, once again, to our city workers. Jenny . . .

July 30, 2019

Editor: I got a car almost two years ago. The difference in time it takes to travel in Kamloops is quite extreme. The parts of Kamloops that I have been in lately have changed considerably. . . .

July 25, 2019

Editor: We in Kamloops have amazing professional people: doctors, nurses, receptionists and others. Dr. Caitlan Visser is one. She took the time to phone me with a personal bereavement call. . . .

July 25, 2019

Editor: Having just spent time in Royal Inland and Kelowna General hospitals, I would like to pass along my thanks to the nurses, doctors and ambulance staff who were part of my stay. They were. . .

July 25, 2019

If you were following the news story this week involving the manhunt for two Port Alberni teens suspected in three murders in northern B.C., I hope the main source of your information was not . . .

July 25, 2019

Forty years ago, James Lovelock published his book Gaia: a New Look at Life on Earth, setting forth his hypothesis that all life on Earth is part of a co-evolved system that maintains the planet as. . .

July 24, 2019

Editor: Appurtenancy, under the NDP government in the 1990s, meant wood for mills was tied to local communities from which that wood was harvested. This quickly disappeared under the timber . . .

July 23, 2019

Editor: Re: Chris Kempling’s letter of July 5 in response to my editorial cartoon (seen above) of June 28 (‘Which religion would find a rainbow offensive?’): If Kempling’s claim that a rainbow . . .

July 23, 2019

Editor: I offer my thanks to Kamloops Coun. Bill Sarai, for keeping his campaign promise to speak up for Brocklehurst. In January, we purchased a home on the river, but the problems began when . . .

July 23, 2019

Editor: Re: (‘Singh says he is willing to lose election on climate change issue’): Kamloops Coun. Arjun Singh would be better off helping his fellow Kamloops citizens enjoy a quality of life . . .

July 23, 2019

It’s festival season in Kamloops. Following a wetter than normal start to July — we received more rain through July 21 than we normally experience during the entire month — Mother Nature has . . .

July 23, 2019

B.C.’s forest industry is having another bad week after Canfor Corp. announced the immediate closure of its Mackenzie sawmill north of Prince George and the permanent reduction from two shifts to . . .

July 19, 2019

“No promises, so no disappointments,” said Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky during the election campaign that made him the president last May. It was a daring, even cynical thing for a politician to . . .

July 19, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW’s article of July 10 (‘Many questions over ride-hailing in B.C.’): Yes, requiring a Class 4 licence is a barrier. So is requiring a Class 5 licence. Neither is much of a . . .

July 19, 2019

Editor: Re: Reader poll in the July 10 and July 12 editions of KTW (‘Would you be willing to pay more in taxes to fund City of Kamloops initiatives to combat climate change?’): I can’t believe . . .

July 19, 2019

Editor: Re: Gwynne Dyer’s column in the July 12 edition of KTW (‘The real refugee problem’): Gwynne Dyer misses the mark when he claims that “human nature” dictates that the willingness of host. . .

July 19, 2019

Editor: I have been a proponent of this city’s efforts to patrol it’s streets and parks with RCMP officers on bicycles since it’s inception. It creates a positive, friendly optic to those . . .

July 19, 2019

Musings on a soggy July day: I’d wager man-made climate change is real and I accept we have contributed to much of the results: more intense storms, widespread wildfires, flooding and the like.. . .

July 17, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW’s front-page article of July 10 (‘Driver who killed motorcyclist gets absolute discharge’): The B.C. Review Board’s decision to grant an absolute discharge to Raymond Swann, who. . .

July 17, 2019

Editor: Local transit schedules in the summer seem to have been cut back, to the point where it takes an hour to get from North Kamloops to Sahali. I regularly go up the hill for grocery . . .

July 16, 2019

Editor: I was impressed with the front page of the July 10 edition of KTW, which featured a photo and article on the highly successful bike and pedestrian trail connecting Sahali with downtown.. . .

July 16, 2019

For a paltry $6,000 this year (and for chump change of about $50,000 for the past eight years), the Union of B.C. Municipalities has bought itself much more in dubious publicity. The organization. . .

July 16, 2019

Editor: Everybody is choked about the recent KTW online poll that found most respondents opposed to paying more taxes for climate-change measures in the city. I agree with those opposed as we . . .

July 16, 2019

Licensed private marijuana stores are finally starting to flower in B.C., with StarBud launching in the Okanagan and Clarity Cannabis aiming for a September opening in Prince Rupert, among others.. . .

July 12, 2019

Every once in a while, a photograph of a migrant’s tragic death (usually that of a child) catches the public’s imagination. The image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, fleeing from the Syrian civil . . .

July 11, 2019

In the end — and now, and always — we are all simply layers, briefly at the top, but inevitably squeezed down to make way for the new kid on the block. In life and death, we are but layers. . . .

July 11, 2019

Editor: Re: Richard Lodmell’s letter of July 10 (‘Defending Trump from Foulds’ attacks’): Actually, U.S. President Donald Trump is a lying despot. He has made 10,796 false or misleading . . .

July 11, 2019

Editor: KTW’s recent Talk Back online question asked readers if they would be willing to pay more taxes to fund City of Kamloops initiatives to combat climate change. The results: 62 per cent . . .

July 11, 2019

Editor: I am a Kamloops Blazers season ticket holder and I would attend six or more Kamloops Storm games when the junior B hockey club used to play on McArthur Island. Parking was easy, . . .

July 11, 2019

Editor: Re: KTW’s front page article of July 10 (‘Driver who killed motorcyclist gets absolute discharge’): How many times have we seen these kinds of outcomes in horrific road- or . . .

July 9, 2019

Even when B.C. finally appears to be joining the 21st century of transportation, the leap comes with many questioning the logic. After many years of not doing much — of which both the B.C. . . .

July 9, 2019

The B.C. NDP government has imposed a two-year moratorium on new mining and forest work in large areas of forest land in northern B.C., following a bumbling effort to shut down existing industry . . .

July 9, 2019

Editor: Canada Day in Kamloops was a wonderful celebration of vendors, cuisine and numerous activities for families and friends. Fortunately, we have great spirit and participation in Kamloops,. . .

July 9, 2019

Editor: Re: Narayan Mitra’s letter of July 4 regarding a proposed city-funded rainbow crosswalk downtown (‘Cross with having to foot colourful bill’): Painting a rainbow crosswalk advances the . . .

July 9, 2019

Editor: Re: Christopher Foulds’ column of July 5 (‘Drawing the truth can offend — and that’s the point’): Drawing the truth can offend, but using a drawing to libel is unacceptable. The . . .

July 9, 2019

Editor: Did I miss something during the last municipal election? Was there a new job description of saving the planet no matter what it costs Kamloops taxpayers? Why is Kamloops council . . .

July 4, 2019

The editorial cartoon above was created by Ingrid Rice, a supremely talented artist who lives in North Vancouver. Rice’s editorial cartoons are syndicated to various newspapers, KTW being one . . .

July 4, 2019

If you board it, they will fly. If you don’t, wave bye-bye. This week marked the return of non-stop flights between Kamloops and Toronto, but the frequency and duration of the service has been . . .

July 4, 2019

Editor: Of late, I have read a few letters to the editor in KTW from motorists and cyclists, all expressing their points of view about sharing a roadway. Somewhat down the food chain would be . . .

July 4, 2019

Editor: Re: Frank Lang’s letter of June 28 regarding the estimated $10,000 cost to install a rainbow-coloured crosswalk in downtown Kamloops (‘Taxpayers should not shoulder rainbow crosswalk . . .

July 4, 2019

Editor: While at Home Hardware a few days ago, my husband was waiting at the popcorn machine for his salt fix. In front of him was a young father and his two children. The father was in the . . .

July 4, 2019

Editor: Re: Ingrid Rice’s editorial page cartoon of June 21, as seen above: The Pride flag has six colours. It is correctly depicted in Rice’s cartoon, missing indigo, but it would not be in . . .

July 4, 2019

Killing journalists is no big deal. “Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia, but we do,” said U.S. President Donald Trump to Russian President. . .