iN DISCUSSION: Advertiser boycott suggested in reaction to Okanagan billboards

This is where cold facts yield to the hottest of takes.

Here you’ll find reader responses to stories and newsletter editorials, or letters to the editor for the week of June 30. They may have been edited slightly for readability. The opinions expressed are not those of iNFOnews.ca, unless we occasionally add our own style, like this:

Countdown Timer

That’s our official Recall Tara Armstrong Countdown Clock!

Tara Armstrong is currently the MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream. As far as we can tell, she has never lived there, never showed her face or said anything in the election campaign where she rode the coattails of the BC Conservative Party, got elected, then rejected and left the party to serve as an Independent because the Conservatives were too left wing. Now she gets to spout moronic, hateful rhetoric and claim that her riding supports her.

Elections BC says you can recall an MLA if 40% of eligible voters in the riding sign a recall petition — but not for the first 18 months after an election. Some people started an online petition calling for a byelection once she made a shift to Independent, but it won’t mean anything until the countdown clock hits zero.

So let the countdown begin!

Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjones@infonews.ca.

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What’s the deal with the billboards next to the bridge in West Kelowna?

Ugly as hell. — Mike Geddes, via iNFOnews.ca

My suggestion is that advertisers boycott the business which advertise with Jimmy Pattison, who surely doesn’t need yet more money. If those companies who advertise lost business and continued to have to pay him close to $1,500 a month, they’d surely cancel their contracts. Hopefully no more advertising. And, of course, the Province doesn’t have jurisdiction over Indian Band or locatee owned lands – another bee in my bonnet. They are undoubtedly a distraction for drivers, and especially those which have illuminated signs which periodically change to reflect a different advertiser. Same applies on Okanagan Indian Band lands between Summerland and Penticton – that band is getting rich from Pattison and his ilk. — Bob Mason, Summerland, via iNFOnews.ca

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‘Lived on love’: Couple called Penticton encampment home for a year

So they kick them out, not giving them a place to go or housing, so that the more fortunate don’t have to see them. — Laural Harris Eacott, via iNFOnews.ca

It is sad to see people either good or bad living like this. Where is the support from our government? They do not care because it has never been their head hitting the pillow outside on the ground. We say we are a compassionate country. — Terry-Lynne Schlosser, via iNFOnews.ca

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‘Expensive umbrella’: Musicians disappointed with new $1.6M stage in Kelowna’s city park

Figures. Look at our vandalized $800,000 public washroom in city park. It’s a disgrace. Kelowna has so much to apologize for.

I’ll play there. Just gotta remember my shades. — John Richards, via iNFOnews.ca

As someone who played for years professionally I can tell you NOT having a place not seen to “get ready” really sucks. Not one person designing this asked one person who plays live. Not to mention looking into the sunset hahaha. — Dick Dawson, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kelowna curling club fights $7,000 fine after serving beer to undercover teen

It’s a sad, sad world we live in. Government control that feeds their greedy hands. $7,000 fine for serving a beer to young adult! — Terri Carter, via iNFOnews.ca

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Canada cancelled its digital services tax. What was it and why did the U.S. hate it?

I wondered a couple of weeks ago if this tax was left “active” on purpose. Part of Prime Minister Carney’s plan to use it as a negotiating tool. OK, we’ll drop it as a good will gesture, now back to negotiations. — Wendy Tuttle, via iNFOnews.ca

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Amid calls for separation, Alberta’s new referendum rules set to formally take effect

Well then, maybe it does need to backfire on her government. – Deborah Podurgiel, via iNFOnews.ca

Good luck. Just how does a landlocked province expect to export or import anything without paying duties and taxes as everything they use passes a foreign border? Oh and no more federal money for anything people. Guess Danielle will get her wish, enjoy being the 51st state. — Dianne Jackson, via iNFOnews.ca