Letters to the Editor

LETTER: Vernon city councillor hopes personal addiction message helps someone in need
OPINION I am not anonymous. Hello, my name is Kelly Fehr and I am a…

LETTER: Kelowna outdoor sheltering site
OPINION Dear editor, The following sentence from your article on the City of Kelowna’s outdoor…

LETTER: Provincial COVID-19 messaging steeped in politics
OPINION In August, federal Health Minister Patty Hajdu said Alberta's July decision to lift all…

LETTER: MPs should represent all constituents
OPINION I was recently on the House of Commons of Canada website and noticed that…

LETTER: Asking people to get vaccinated, carry proof is not comparable to the Holocaust
OPINION I am growing ever-more sickened by dangerous false equivalencies – namely, the comparison of…

LETTER: Kelowna MP Tracy Gray playing political game of bait-and-switch
OPINION Tracy Gray’s vote against a bill banning conversion therapy is a “principled decision?” Really?…

B.C. has turned its forests into a ticking time bomb: Zeman
OPINION After record temperatures seared much of the province, this year's fire season got off…

LETTER: Dark history or present reality?
OPINION Since the news broke about the discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous children…

LETTER: B.C. needs city hall recall
OPINION Dear Editor, Most people probably haven’t spent much time in a champagne room, but…

LETTER: Kelowna protest against public health orders not about masks and restrictions
Dear Editor, Out of curiosity, I put my mask on and travelled into downtown Kelowna…

LETTER: ‘We are people too:’ Merritt’s top cop responds to tragic incident outside detachment
As many of you know, on December 5, 2020 at approximately 4:40 p.m., a major…

OPINION: What’s in a name? Stubborn Snyder about to find out
OPINION Try to think of a more deserving guy in all of sports than…

LETTER: Kelowna’s BLM event ‘ill-advised and tactless’
To whom it may concern, I am writing to you in regards to the Black…

LETTER: Westbank First Nation member questions motives of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs
OPINION I see all these posts supporting a few OW (Office of the Wet'suwet'en) Hereditary…

LETTER: Why Leonard Marchand deserves to be on the $5
OPINION Born in Vernon, B.C. in November 1933, Leonard Marchand was a member of the Okanagan…