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EDITORIAL: Ribfest is already a marquee event
For two summers in a row, the Interior Savings/Daybreak Rotary Ribfest has served up more than good ribs, tasty suds and marvellous music. It has served up reason enough for Kamloops to embrace even...
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EDITORIAL: We need to make pranksters pay dearly
They happen often. A phone rings, the voice on the other end claims a bomb will explode, the building is evacuated and police officers and others search, almost always in vain, for explosives. Schools...
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EDITORIAL: At the U.S. border, do not ask, do not tell
Will the words of Cathy McLeod and Justin Trudeau come back to burn them the next time they try to enter the United States? Much was made of the federal Liberal leader’s admission that he had smoked...
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EDITORIAL: Driver should now leave wheel to others
The father of the young woman seriously injured in an accident last year made a thoughtful point outside court this week. Christian Ardiles noted the past year through which his adult daughter Chloe...
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EDITORIAL: Kudos to council on John Tod decision
Yes, it would be nice if a revamped John Tod elementary opened soon with a fabulous, $1-million entranceway and lobby leading to a welcoming community centre. But, city council’s decision to approve...
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EDITORIAL: Perhaps sisters can be budgeted apart in 14
It is with interest that we note the city’s biennial trip to Uji, Japan, is taking place this week the very week city council decided to hold earlier public meetings in the 2014 budget. Four people...
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EDITORIAL: Will pay hikes become an election issue?
Kamloops city council may this week endorse a recommendation that will see salaries of the mayor and council rise significantly as of 2015. There was no urgent need to have this conversation; in fact,...
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EDITORIAL: Of course council needs to vote again
If all nine members of Kamloops city council were to reconvene and vote again on the pay-raise issue, it is quite likely the elected body would again give itself a wage hike. Regardless, the matter...
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EDITORIAL: The night to tell it to the city
Critics dismiss it as a spectacle organized to make it appear as though residents actually have a say in how the city spends their dollars. Supporters note Kamloops is far ahead of many B.C....
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EDITORIAL: Parents! Do you know what’s on that phone?
The joint Kamloops RCMP-Kamloops-Thompson school district investigation into students at various schools should be a sobering lesson for parents and teens. The probe is into a substantial number of...
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