Tag: Kamloops Life
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Kamloops Has Voted: Thank You to Every Candidate, and Congratulations to Those Elected
[Photo: Kamloops City Hall in summer, with flowers on the steps]Kamloops City Hall, where residents have stood with Ukraine every Saturday since February 2022, and where our new council will serve. Yesterday, Kamloops chose its mayor, city council and school trustees. Mama and I voted by mail ballot, and in the afternoon I stood near…
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We Voted Together. Now It’s Your Turn, Kamloops: Polls Close at 8 PM
This year Mama and I voted by mail ballot. We sat together and I read every candidate’s answers to Mama, all sixteen of them. We looked at the candidates’ profiles and photos, talked them through, made our decisions and voted. Then we took our envelopes to City Hall. A mail ballot made it possible for…
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Asking Kamloops Candidates Where They Stand: 2026 Answers and Report
Every Saturday at 3:00 PM since February 24, 2022, we have stood together near Kamloops City Hall in solidarity with Ukraine. Before every election since 2022, I have also asked every candidate the same questions, so residents can read candidates’ own words and decide for themselves. This year, all 51 candidates for Mayor, City Council…
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Ask Your Candidates: 2026 Election Questionnaires for Kamloops, British Columbia and Stand with Ukraine Communities
[Photo: Voting in the 2024 BC provincial election, October 19, 2024, Kamloops.] Every Saturday at 3:00 PM since February 24, 2022, residents of Kamloops have gathered peacefully near City Hall in solidarity with Ukraine. We have stood through an entire council term, and we will keep standing no matter who is elected. This fall, British…
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Tonight in Kamloops: The Last Human in the Universe Speaks Ukrainian
This event took place on August 8, 2026. Tonight in Kamloops: The Last Human in the Universe Speaks Ukrainian U Are the Universe (Ти — Космос) Saturday, August 8 at 7:00 pm Paramount Theatre, 503 Victoria St CINEMA PASSPORT UKRAINE, presented by the Kamloops Film Society in partnership with the Simya Ukrainian Society. Thank you…
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Where the Rivers Meet, So Do We
On the night I left Kamloops, I had just finished teaching my final in person class of 2026 at TRU. Fall is my non-teaching term, the season I keep for research and service, so this evening carried that particular feeling of one chapter (21 years of in-person teaching in Canada) closing while another quietly begins.…
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A Kamloops Safari: Mama, Isobel Lake, and the Gentle Wildlife of Home
This week I fly to Nairobi for a conference, to the land of the true safari. But before any of that, on a Friday after work, I went on a different kind of safari, closer to home, and in many ways closer to my heart. I took Mama Lidia to Isobel Lake. If you have…
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590 Kilograms of Care: Our EDSW Trash Bashers Won an Award, and So Did a Whole Campus
Sometimes the planet sends a small thank you note back. This time it arrived for all of us at once. A few weeks ago I wrote a story about the 29th annual Trash Bash at TRU. It was a quiet, ordinary morning that turned into a curriculum: bending down again and again near the Science…
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Where the Rivers Meet: What I Learned About Kamloops
I spent this spring studying our city’s strengths. Here is what I found, and why it gave me hope. Kamloops takes its name from the Secwépemctsín word for “where the rivers meet,” the confluence of the North and South Thompson at the heart of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc territory. That meeting place is both the city’s…
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Standing Free Returns to Kamloops, Opening with the Strings of the Bandura
This event took place on June 12, 2026. One year ago, Kamloops gathered in a university classroom to bear witness. We watched Standing Free together, asked Maxim Khomenko our questions, and turned a documentary screening into direct support for Ukraine. That evening, the distance between Kamloops and the frontlines disappeared for two hours. On Friday,…
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Tonight at TRU: The Care You Don’t See
This event took place on June 11, 2026. Somewhere in Kamloops right now, a student is finishing an assignment between hospital visits. A neighbour is cooking a second dinner to drop off down the street. A son is helping his mother with her medications before heading to his evening shift. A parent is studying for…
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Trash Bash at TRU: A Story of Care, Community, and Learning to Do Better
The morning began the way most Thursdays in Westsyde begin this month, with the small, ordinary rituals of taking care of where we live. I rolled the recycling bins to the curb (it is recycling day pick up in the area). There is something quietly hopeful about putting your recycling out on the right day.…