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BASS: Quite possibly the worst campaign ever
So, what if we called an election and nobody showed up — because we didn’t put it on Facebook or Twitter? Well, that’s not really true, is it? If it was promoted on social media, I guess a lot of young...
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Much more to election than Ajax mine
Editor: What a joy it was to read all the letters to the editor in yesterday’s edition (Nov. 6) of Kamloops This Week. I am so tired of hearing about the proposed Ajax mine. If the mine is all one is...
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Fletcher’s column only fogged up the issue
Editor: Re: Tom Fletcher’s column of Nov. 4 (‘Legislation spews hot gas’): I think there is no question information flying around about global warming is confusing, misinforming and worrisome. But, I...
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Pick up and keep park perfect
Editor: My husband and/or I walk our springer every day in Kenna Cartwright Park. I was there on a recent Sunday, at the same time as the Doggy Romp, which featured so many people and so many dogs....
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FOULDS: Electing to discuss the election
The 2014 civic election is drawing near. With 28 candidates seeking eight seats on council, four people vying for one mayor’s chair and 15 men and women trying to win one of five city seats on the...
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Conservation officers finding too many hunters driving with loaded guns
A recent enforcement campaign by conservation officers found an alarming number of hunters driving with loaded firearms inside their vehicles. Kevin Van Damme, a conservation officer based in Kamloops,...
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Group calls for panel-review funding for Ajax
The shuttering of a proposed mining project in Northern Ontario should make funding available for a federal joint panel review of KGHM’s Ajax project, according to a Kamloops group opposed to the...
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Debate on arts gets energized
A debate on the state of Kamloops’ arts and cultural scene turned into a shouting match in the Art We Are on Thursday, Nov. 6. Hosted by the Kamloops Arts Council and Kamloops Vote 50, the debate...
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Stuart Wood closure hot topic at trustees’ forum
When students are breaking bones falling down old staircases and parents can’t go to their children’s school because they’re in wheelchairs, something has to be done, incumbent school-board candidates...
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Sweden vs. USA photo gallery
Team USA defeated Sweden 3-0 in 4 Nations Cup action on Friday, Nov. 7. Canada and Finland will play tonight, 7 p.m. at Interior Savings Centre. The post Sweden vs. USA photo gallery appeared first on...
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Canada gets past Finland, books spot in Four Nations Cup final
If it weren’t for Meeri Raisanen, Canada might have ran up the score against Finland in the Four Nations Cup round-robin finale at Interior Savings Centre on Friday, Nov. 7. The Finnish goaltender was...
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Poppy power, the remembrance flower
As delicate as they appear, corn poppies are an enduring flower. Scattered randomly by the wind, their seeds flourish in freshly turned soil, often turning just-ploughed fields into unexpected seas of...
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Canada earns shootout victory over U.S. in Four Nations Cup gold-medal showdown
Genevieve Lacasse stopped Hilary Knight in a shootout to secure a 3-2 win for Canada over the U.S. in the Four Nations Cup gold-medal game at Interior Savings Centre on Saturday, Nov. 8. Allen...
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Rock ‘n’ roll to convert ‘most jaded hipster’
Kurt Dahl knows his band could be onto something big. The One Bad Son (OBS) drummer spoke to KTW over the phone from Los Angeles, where he and other Canadian bandmates Shane Volk, Adam Hicks and Adam...
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Special board meeting today to close Stuart Wood
School-board trustees will meet later today (Monday, Nov. 10) to debate — and likely pass — a bylaw to close Stuart Wood elementary. The 4 p.m. meeting at the school-board offices on Ninth Avenue was...
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‘Tender wartime story,’ letters from the frontline
The story of war is rarely the story of love, of family left behind, of waiting and wondering. It’s rarely the story one might call the sequel — the reality both soldiers and their family experience...
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FLETCHER: Even politically, global warming has stalled
On most issues this column discusses, the feedback I receive is generally negative. One exception has been human-caused climate change, where my mail runs three to one in favour of a skeptical...
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Remembrance Day: Sim recalls carnage on beaches of Normandy
The artillery barrages terrified Alex Sim more than anything. The small-arms fighting, the rifles, the rest of the Second World War, he could handle. But, it was those nights when he sat crouched in a...
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Actually, Ajax is the elephant in this election
Editor: I found Vince Cavaliere’s letter of Nov. 6 distressing (‘Ajax cannot be only civic-election focus’) and I hope he is wrong in his belief people don’t vote because they are happy with the...
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Remembrance Day: ‘I still think about it’
The Second World War never really left Jim Kilner. “I kind of put it behind me as much as I could,” Kilner, now 88, told KTW. “Sure, I still thought about it, I still think of it once in a while now....
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