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Tax tinkering pledges surface from Dix, Abbott to woo votes

Are urban Liberals engineering failure of party vote reform?

Kamloops - Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for Kamloops - Thompson - Cariboo hosted a pre-budget consultation Thursday in Kamloops featuring the Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance. There were 24 participants in attendance including representatives of local government, tourism, cattlemen, forestry, First Nations, rural communities and individuals.

The next premier of B.C. will be in the Tournament Capital at the beginning of February - but that leader won’t know he or she has won the job yet.

The Clearwater Peewee Girls hockey team did it up in style last week as they glammed it up with plenty of PINK. As established by the Canadian Cancer Society, Wear It Pink Day was Jan. 26 and set aside as a day to show support for the fight against breast cancer. This is an important cause and the girls wore their pink with pride! Throughout the week the team continued its Pennies for Pucks fundraiser and wore pink as their sign of support for the cancer campaign.

Ottawa - Cathy McLeod, Member of Parliament for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo recently announced that the Canada Summer Jobs budget for 2011 in our constituency would be $393,933.

School District 73 wants to hear what you think about transferring ownership of Dutch Lake School to District of Clearwater.

“For a community that’s only three years incorporated I’m really impressed. I’ve seen the bad and the good, and Clearwater is definitely in the good.”

With only 40 people bothering to show up recently for what I’m sure was an electrifying speech by disgraced former premier Bill Vander Zalm, it would seem common sense is finally prevailing in the drive for a recall of Kamloops-North Thompson Liberal MLA Terry Lake.