Tag: Editorial

  • 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…

  • Disclosure and transparency

    The creation of the Kamloops Chronicle newspaper has been a great experience in active community development. As both a life-long volunteer and retired CEO in the nonprofit world, it has been gratifying to work with a small group of volunteers determined to pool their skills and bring a newspaper back to the city. We started…

  • A community newspaper needs community support

    “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” This saying has come to mind again and again as a small and mighty group have been working together to launch the Kamloops Chronicle. We started meeting in early August, decided to form a non profit society, and set…

  • Welcome to the Chronicle

    What you’re holding in your hand right now (or looking at on your phone, or your PC, or however you might be reading this) is something I think is pretty special. It’s the first issue of what we hope will be a new ongoing newspaper for the city of Kamloops and it’s called the Kamloops…