After four years of conflict, controversy and difficult questions at Kamloops City Hall, what has Reid Hamer-Jackson learned? We examine his record, judgment, values and approach to leadership—and consider whether he has earned a second term.


After four years of conflict, controversy and difficult questions at Kamloops City Hall, what has Reid Hamer-Jackson learned? We examine his record, judgment, values and approach to leadership—and consider whether he has earned a second term.

A complaint submitted four days before Kamloops Council voted to remove the public’s right to file Code of Conduct complaints raises a new question: what did Council know before the vote?

Rob Bertrand is campaigning on safer streets, transparency and accountability. After a two-hour conversation and further research, here’s what I found — and what I still want to know.

Katie Neustaeter has published eight pages of rules for engaging with her campaign on social media. We looked at those rules alongside her actual conversations with Kamloops residents.

I took Mike O’Reilly at his word about why flowers weren’t sent to the Mayor’s wife in hospital. Then I called the hospital and checked.

Mike O’Reilly invited Kamloops residents to ask questions. I took him up on it. Then I went back to the records behind one of his answers.