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Kamloops Is Borrowing Big. Are We Ready For The Bill?

Kamloops Is Borrowing Big. Are We Ready For The Bill?

by | Sep 19, 2025 | City Hall

What Kamloops Taxpayers Should Know About BCโ€™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 cityโ€™s long-term growth assumptions. Provincial...
๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐†๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ƒ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐ข๐ง

๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐ˆ๐ฌ ๐†๐ž๐ญ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ƒ๐ข๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐ข๐ง

by | Sep 13, 2025 | City Hall

Interior Health is cutting 91 administrative positions after a financial reviewโ€”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...
๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ

๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ

by | Aug 15, 2025 | City Hall

๐€ ๐…๐ซ๐ข๐๐š๐ฒ ๐…๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐ฒ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐€๐ซ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ: In an article from April 2024, former Mayor Mel Rothenburger pointed out one omission in the City’s citizen satisfaction survey: it didnโ€™t ask how well City Council was doing. To address that, he created 10 questions with...
๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐†๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ

๐‚๐š๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ญ๐จ ๐‡๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ฅ๐ข๐ ๐ก๐ญ๐ฌ ๐†๐š๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒโ€™๐ฌ ๐†๐ซ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐„๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ

by | Aug 13, 2025 | City Hall

At this weekโ€™s council meeting, Mayor Hamer-Jackson asked MP Frank Caputo directly about federal funding for Kamloopsโ€™ major upcoming projectsโ€”including Build Kamloops and the new RCMP facility, which together total nearly $500 million dollars. Caputoโ€™s response was...
Hiding Behind Aliases Isn’t Courage

Hiding Behind Aliases Isn’t Courage

by | Aug 9, 2025 | City Hall

๐‡๐ข๐๐ข๐ง๐  ๐๐ž๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐€๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ˆ๐ฌ๐งโ€™๐ญ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ ๐žโ€”๐ˆ๐ญโ€™๐ฌ ๐‚๐จ๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐๐ข๐œ๐ž 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 arenโ€™t everyday residents...
Please Answer The Question

Please Answer The Question

by | Aug 7, 2025 | City Hall

๐๐‘๐„๐€๐Š๐ˆ๐๐†: ๐Š๐š๐ฆ๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฌ ๐‚๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ: ๐๐ฅ๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐ž ๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง. ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐›๐ฅ๐ข๐œ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ . 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...