OUR MISSION

People are exhausted. They don’t know who or what to believe, and they’re done watching local officials and city administration play by a different set of rules. Over the last three years, trust in City Hall, in leadership, and even in each other has eroded in...

What Kamloops Taxpayers Should Know About BC’s Deficit and Local Borrowing Kamloops is planning major investments while BC faces a record-breaking $11.6 billion deficit and revised population forecasts that challenge the city’s long-term growth assumptions. Provincial...

Interior Health is cutting 91 administrative positions after a financial review—sending the message that public institutions must tighten up, prioritize front-line services, and trim bureaucracy. By contrast, since October 2020, the City of Kamloops has quietly added...

𝐀 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐅𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬: In an article from April 2024, former Mayor Mel Rothenburger pointed out one omission in the City's citizen satisfaction survey: it didn’t ask how well City Council was doing. To address that, he created 10 questions with...

At this week’s council meeting, Mayor Hamer-Jackson asked MP Frank Caputo directly about federal funding for Kamloops’ major upcoming projects—including Build Kamloops and the new RCMP facility, which together total nearly $500 million dollars. Caputo’s response was...

𝐇𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐈𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐞—𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐞 On local social media, a familiar set of anonymous accounts reliably surface to defend City Hall and discredit its critics, consistently attempting to dominate political debate. These aren’t everyday residents...

𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆: 𝐊𝐚𝐦𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐂𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐥: 𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠. On August 5, Kamloops resident and KCU co-organizer Kathrine Wunderlich asked council a direct, legitimate question: Will public funds be used to defend Councillor Katie Neustaeter in...