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Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the second week of February 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. 

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

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iN PHOTOS: Entertaining wildlife captures in Kamloops, Okanagan

Awesome photos. — Dorothy Taylor, via iNFOnews.ca

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Love these photos. They left me smiling! — Deborah Podurgiel, via iNFOnews.ca

Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie stripped of Order of Canada

She has been a great voice and is a source of pride and inspiration for First Nations people on both sides of the border. This was not necessary. — Robert Bishop, via iNFOnews.ca 

Kamloops mayor files RCMP complaint against another councillor, this time for 'hacking'

I am not sure why he is still the mayor and we haven’t had another election. It seems like all that is happening with the mayor and council are lawsuits and bickering. — Derrick LeBlanc, via iNFOnews.ca 

 'It's hurtful': Okanagan vet frustrated by pet owners' misconceptions about rising costs

Communicating the rising costs would help, but in this day and age when a corporation, especially one publicly traded on the markets are involved, all the general public see is the rich getting richer and sadly that is usually the case. We keep hearing it is the cost of doing business in the post pandemic world yet profits are up up up. The public knows it and have had enough. — Dick Dawson, via iNFOnews.ca 

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This is very sad to hear and this kind of behaviour should not and cannot be tolerated. With the shortage of vets in the region it is not helpful at all. Perhaps such abusive customers should be put on a watch list with all the vets so that getting future service will be more challenging for them. — Leo Steen, via iNFOnews.ca 

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I’m not sure why people don’t buy pet insurance. There are numerous companies that have reasonable rates. You can’t blame the vets for price increases. Staff wages have gone up, the cost of supplies have gone up. We can’t expect 2010 prices in 2025. Nothing stays the same price. — Patricia Evans, via iNFOnews.ca 

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This is not a new phenomenon. Vets have always been very expensive. — Mark Raabe, cia iNFOnews.ca 

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I really appreciate this article. I have worked at both private and corporate veterinary hospitals, and while the services are different, the costs are different, the pay is different, the level of care stayed the same. That being said, I appreciate being able to be paid a better fraction of what I am worth as a veterinary technician, doing everything a nurse does and more, as it makes it affordable for me to actually stay in the field. One of the reasons technicians leave is because they can’t afford to work anymore for low pay, and end up taking on a different job that they don’t feel as called to do but at least they can afford to save for retirement and not worry about getting bit or ruining their back from the constant physical aspect of the job. — Heather Fledderus, via iNFOnews.ca

THOMPSON: Is AI good or evil, or somewhere in between?

Hahaha, you are so correct on this one! — Bonnie Derry, via iNFOnews.ca 

Here's the latest as Canada faces steel and aluminum tariffs from the United States

Wonder how he’s going to retrofit his refiners so they can process U.S. oil, or build his cars, or mine for his precious metals if he has no steel to work with? U.S. timber must be amazing. — Dianne Jackson, via iNFOnews.ca 

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