Category: Opinion
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Thankful for progress with new paper
It has been a whirlwind my friends. We are now on issue five of the Kamloops Chronicle. We’ve got a wonderful board of directors for our local news non-profit. We have an experienced and engaged editor, designer, and freelance reporter team. People are in touch regularly about submitting information for publication. It’s been so wonderful…
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Katherine’s Place officially opened its doors last month with a ribbon cutting even that brought a large and diverse crowd. Pictured from lect, A Way Home Kamloops Board Chair Lorry-Ann Austin, Provincial Director of Supportive Housing & Programs at BC Housing Lani Brunn, A Way Home Kamloops Youth Advisor Kira Cheeseborough, Kamloops City Councillor Katie Neustaeter, and A Way Home Kamloops Executive Director Tangie Genshorek.Katherine’s Place opens its doors to youth
The below are remarks from Kira Cheeseborough at the Grand Opening of Katherine’s Place, the new A Way Home Kamloops building with supportive homes for youth and young adults. They are reprinted with her permission. The building is named in honour of the late Katherine McParland, founder of A Way Home Kamloops and a huge…
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The mule deer which visited John Noakes near his home, photographed on Jan. 30 enjoying a snack on neighbours’s shrub.Letters Mar. 2025
Mule deer visitor Dear Editor, I have lived in the Westmount subdivision since May 1987. Back then, I can’t remember seeing many deer in town except maybe at Mac Park when I met my Ham radio friends for breakfast at the restaurant that used to be there. In the last five years, the population of…
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Now is the time to unite as Canadians
One of the things that was important to us when we were making plans for what the Kamloops Chronicle would be was to try to focus as exclusively as possible on news and information for Kamloops. We wanted to be local first and foremost. Which is why it is with a certain amount of embarassment…
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Dealing with Trump’s tariffs in Kamloops
Most Mondays, I have lunch with a group of community minded people at the Delta Marriott Hotel downtown. This is the Rotary Club of Kamloops weekly meeting. I’ve been a member for almost 25 years. Early on in my time with the club, I noticed a bit of a dip in attendance during the winter…
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Letters Jan. 2025
Dear Editor: On June 19, 2016 Jessie Simpson’s rights were stripped away. Section 7 in Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms states: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of the person and the right not to be deprived thereof except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice, and to respect the…
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Looking ahead to 2025 and beyond
I’m not big on New Year’s Resolutions, if I’m completely honest. While I understand the desire to embrace the new year while attempting to carve out a new you (in any number of possible ways), in my experience it always seems to lead to failure, and then regret, and then backsliding. And pretty soon the…
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City council accomplishing more than meets the eye
When it comes to city council these days, what I sense growing in the community is a “throw them all out” feeling. And I think that would be very bad for Kamloops. Let me explain. Yes, absolutely, the dysfunction on council has led the local news and even made provincial and national news. People generally…
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Letters – Jan. 2025
Chronicle connecting community Dear Editor: What a delight to have a community newspaper in our collective hands! In the September 28th, 2024, edition of the Globe and Mail, Kamloops was used as an example of “the creeping desert eroding local news.” The Kamloops Chronicle is off to a fine start on making that desert bloom with its focus…
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Slow and steady goes the news
There’s been some interesting news regarding city hall this week with the revelation that Councillor Bill Sarai secretly recorded Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson and then went on to deny being the source of that recording. The recording contained an argument between the two men. This argument, from 2023, ended up resulting in investigations into the Mayor’s…