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This is where cold facts yield to the hottest of takes.

Here you'll find reader responses to stories and newsletter editorials, or letters to the editor for the week of May 12. They may have been edited slightly for readability. The opinions expressed are not those of iNFOnews.ca, unless we occasionally add our own style, like this:

Countdown Timer

That's our official Recall Tara Armstrong Countdown Clock!

Tara Armstrong is currently the MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream. As far as we can tell, she has never lived there, never showed her face or said anything in the election campaign where she rode the coattails of the BC Conservative Party, got elected, then rejected and left the party to serve as an Independent because the Conservatives were too left wing. Now she gets to spout moronic, hateful rhetoric and claim that her riding supports her.

Elections BC says you can recall an MLA if 40% of eligible voters in the riding sign a recall petition — but not for the first 18 months after an election. Some people started an online petition calling for a byelection once she made a shift to Independent, but it won't mean anything until the countdown clock hits zero.

So let the countdown begin!

Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjones@infonews.ca.

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Penticton man who abandoned family returns to sue for family home

Karma. — Bonnie Derry, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kamloops woman wins legal fight after Tribunal rules ICBC decision 'unreasonable'

Government mandated monopolies are just as fallible as free market monopolies. I hate the idea of an insurance company cannot be held accountable in the free market and you risk a provincial boot on your neck if you defy the state monopoly. — Sheldon A. Tio, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kamloops mayor pitches committee to 'DOGE' city hall

I think we need an election to get a better mayor who can represent Kamloops and work with council not argue and accuse every one of defamation etc. This does not look good for Kamloops and its residents. They voted everyone in and to act like children is not a good look. — Derrick LeBlanc, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kamloops senior promised not to seek wife's money; loses in court seeking wife's money

I’m glad the court ruled in her favour, what a slime ball. — Lauren DeCarlis, via iNFOnews.ca

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BC Conservatives attack MLA Tara Armstrong and fellow Independents

The real takeaway here is that the BC Conservative Party is leaning too far right by adopting American style antisocial values and aggressive tactics. They consistently act against our public interest, our democracy and unity. They're aligned with US/MAGA, which attacks our politics, economics and culture so they can break us and own us.
That is not hyperbole, it's fact. It's evident regionally in Alberta's UCP, in the Smith and Pollievre pact, in their verbatim MAGA script, in their efforts to weaken our economy, to sabotage industry and progress. It's evident in their opposition to Bills C-14 and C-15, when American threats require us to make fast, decisive economic plans, when Provincial and Federal policy must collaborate, when the future of conventional energy is uncertain and investment is shifting. It's evident in their many aggressive First Nations remarks, against people who are the very backbone and fabric of our country.
They're out of line against the BC independent members' privilege to vote as they see fit.If Canadian patriotism has any real grip on your conscience, you will reject this Conservative brand, provincially and federally, should they waste more time and money by forcing BC to the polls. — Margaret Ann Killin, via iNFOnews.ca

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iN PHOTOS: Bold captures of people in action in Kamloops, Okanagan

Such fun! — Deborah Podurgiel, via iNFOnews.ca

It’s time people gave up enjoying the abuse of animals. We should be more compassionate to animals. — Diane Courneyeur, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kelowna man fined $13,000 for hunting bighorn ram

Shameful. — Lynne Kjeldsen-Trotter, via iNFOnews.ca

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Controversial Okanagan MLA doubles down on anti-Indigenous stance

Seriously they're as bad as the orange man down south. Whatever happened back in 1871 is in the past, get over it, white supremacy is over. — Dianne Jackson, via iNFOnews.ca

Armstrong and Brodie should resign and should be charged and arrested by the RCMP for promoting hate, except that the RCMP themselves are a vessel for hate propagation and violence against First Nations, white poor people, white women, etc. — Patrick Longworth, via iNFOnews.ca

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Conservative MP pushing for a stay of execution for flock of ostriches in Kootenays

1.2 million bucks won't make you 'feel better'? — Janis Joanne Thompson, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kelowna considers future without RCMP as it weighs municipal police transition

After seeing the messed up response by the RCMP in the Nova Scotia mass murder back on April 2020 it shows a lack of ability and basic lazy work ethics. Also this police force’s solve rate for violent or deadly crimes is beyond bad. So many cold case files that have years of dust on them. Kelowna could do much better. — Gary Scramstad, via iNFOnews.ca

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Kelowna man wins legal fight after ICBC 'ignored' the details

They are there not to work with you but exist to work against you. — Marc Bohme, via iNFOnews.ca

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