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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…