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New RCMP Building’s Cost Jumps to $170M

New RCMP Building’s Cost Jumps to $170M

by | Oct 18, 2025 | AAP, City Hall, RCMP Building

The new RCMP building price tag has now risen to $169.8 million โ€” with taxpayers responsible for at least $142 million. Before residents sign off on more debt, maybe we should first see the design features and timeline that are actually required by the contract. Read...
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...