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 told Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson “so sue me.” Given the history between them and the City’s decision to fund her legal defence, those three words deserve a closer look.
Kamloops Council has turned its existing pay policy into a bylaw, increased council expense allowances and added a new mechanism to recover money owed to the City. With an election approaching and an unresolved legal-cost dispute involving the Mayor and a councillor, the changes raise some questions about how Council pay should be set and recovered.
Nancy Bepple is seeking a fourth term on Kamloops City Council. This candidate profile examines her ten-year record, priorities, public engagement, and council voting history ahead of the 2026 municipal election.
Most media coverage of Tuesday’s council meeting focused on whether Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson threatened the Corporate Officer. This article examines a different question: what authority did administration rely upon when directing staff to mute the Mayor’s microphone, and did the circumstances described by the City actually exist?