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HELSTON: Why we’re waiting around at the courthouse
Reporters, lawyers, and no doubt court staff were on the edge of their seats earlier this week in Vernon awaiting not a landmark ruling from the judge, but a verdict on whether there was even enough time to hold the sentence hearing at all. It was already the third time the case was up for...
BEPPLE: The need for a safer Westsyde Road
On Monday, a young woman from Kamloops was killed in a head-on collision with another vehicle on Westsyde Road. What a difficult time it must be for the family. It leaves a huge hole in their hearts. It will take a long time for the family to heal. If her death was the only one,...
POULSEN: Trump and Trudeau have something big in common
Last month, two Canadian national news outlets came up with entirely different headlines about the same Angus Reid poll: "Trump brand is mud in Canada," said one. "Significant number of Canadians agree with Donald Trump for a border ban on Muslims," said the other. How's that for clarity? The practitioners of the dark art of...
OPINION: Aberdeen’s new air monitor justifies concerns
Will the KGHM Ajax models replicate the real measurements from Aberdeen? In June 2014 Kamloops…
LOEWEN: The cat, the quail, and the year ahead
We slipped quietly under the sheets as 2015 receded into memory. For the first time in many years, New Year’s Eve wasn’t spent out on the town amidst the contrived conviviality of revellers. And with the two of us struggling to maintain workaday equilibrium against the onslaught of flu-bugs and General Yuletide Burnout, New Year’s...
Cool, white week ahead in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - If you were hoping back to school would be warmer than this past weekend you are in luck — temperatures will warm slightly this week, but not by much. After several days of temperatures staying well below seasonal normal lows, overnight temperatures are expected to be back near, if not a bit warmer...
PARKER: Epiphanies from a classic family vacation
When my mother suggested that on our Christmas family vacation the seven of us drive three hours from Phoenix, Arizona to the red rocks of Sedona we all jumped at the opportunity against what should have been better judgment. We figured the excursion was a chance to see something different, something new, it was a...
BEPPLE: Hoping Kamloops councillors can come together in 2016
The new year is upon us and with it are hopes for better times ahead. No more so than at Kamloops City Hall. At times in the past year, the first of their four-year term, it has been a bit rocky. Certainly the debates over pesticide use and removal of the old Daily News building...
LOEWEN: A New Year’s lesson learned from one old soul’s last gasp to play tango
It’s been a few years since I bid my client and friend, Carmen, adieu for the last time. But as we approach the start of a new year, I find myself thinking a lot about old Carmen and what she was able to teach me.
ANDERSON: This isn’t 1980, Mr. Trudeau, and these aren’t the boat people
In 1979, following the communist invasion of South Vietnam, the killing fields of Cambodia, and various regional wars, about two million South Asian refugees were driven out of their homes. Out of desperation and facing almost certain death behind them, many simply floated out to sea in leaky boats in hopes of finding safety somewhere,...
PARKER: Fight the stagefright
My brother stood positioned on one side of the tree while my mother fiddled anxiously on the other. “Watch her, please,” my dad cautioned them both. Again, louder, “watch her, please, you two.” There was a sense of urgency, a sense of distress in his voice. Those of us who weren’t the designated spotters sat...
