Following are a collection of reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the second week of March 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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American booze pulled from BC Liquor Stores available at independent outlets

So nationwide we have pulled American booze from the shelves. Those bottles we already bought and paid for by Canadian liquor distributors. So instead of selling out the stock to get back paid money, we shelve the stock in warehouses and take a loss on the profit margin for liquor store branches and any restaurant that can no longer get the product. Huh? Sure it’s a defiant show, but it’s just show. U.S. wine is still in stores too. A better idea would be to just tariff those brands, and recoup costs, allow restaurants to serve the product for customers to help business’ bottom lines. Why chop off our nose to spite our own face. This is knee jerk reaction is dumb. — Kevin Schmitz, via iNFOnews.ca 

Osoyoos Canada Day shooter sentenced to seven years in prison

Being a great inmate is a very poor career choice. — Lola Giddens, via iNFOnews.ca 

'Skating on thin ice': Kelowna's housing sales well below normal

It’s almost like housing prices are too high, or that parasitic realtors are profiting heavily over overinflated housing prices. I mean if you’re getting 10 per cent or more of the housing sale, you’re going to make sure to increase the sales price as much as you can to pad your profits. Housing is not an investment, it’s a place to live, and people need to start acting that way. I’m so sad for the parasites that they aren’t selling as many houses. Maybe they will be more willing to sell at a loss if they can’t make any sales that are overinflated. Goodbye foreign and or investment minded people from the market. — Pearce Bahner-Stephens, via iNFOnews.ca

Second Malik hit man gets life sentence as family asks who hired him

And not eligible for parole for 20 years. Neither of them should count on getting parole in 20 years. The parole board is not kind to contract killers. — William Mastop, via iNFOnews.ca 

Near-unanimous approval on Kamloops council for controversial supportive housing site

This council is totally useless. They give no thought at all to the negative impacts for the North Shore in terms of crime rates and property values. — Laurie Nordstrom, via iNFOnews.ca

Kamloops drug addict credits tough love for his recovery, advocates for forced treatment

The article regarding forced treatment needs to come out more and more. Trust me, there are more people who agree with this, especially the loved ones watching this nightmare. — Danielle Bishop, via iNFOnews.ca 

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Listen to the former addict - the bureaucrats have no experience. It's been long established that drug addicts have a much better chance of recovery through working with other addicts with a long history of active addiction, who have already found that freedom. And it doesn't require having to believe in a magic sky daddy; freedom of choice is at the heart of freedom from addiction. — Karen Klein, via email

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Thanks for the article. Harm reduction does not work. — Mark Marischuk, via email

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Thanks for the follow-up article about Mike. It's a good read. — Ken Mickalishen, via email

iN RESPONSE to the March 10 newsletter editorial - Does Mark Carney as Liberal leader change your voting intention in the next election?

I would never vote for the Liberals again, even more hesitant with Carney as leader.  The only way forward is to elect a majority Conservative government. — William Balyx, via email

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I will not vote for Carney. — Hannelore Lubben, via email

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He does not change my voting preference in any way. The Liberals must go. Everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie, the same as Trudeau. — Ladele Minifie, via email

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The election of Mr. Carney to the leadership of the Liberal party is good news, in my opinion. If he manages to win enough votes for the Liberal party to enable him to be Prime Minister after the federal election, that will also be good news. He is the best qualified to deal with our erratic neighbour. Having said that, my vote won’t change. The Kamloops riding wherein I reside will vote Conservative once again. I’m sure that they could run a deaf, blind, three-legged dog and still win. I actually like our MP as a person despite disagreeing with him about the policies of his leader. I have and will continue to vote for the Green Party candidate. Wasted vote? No, it’s a vote for trying to prevent the coming catastrophe of climate change. I’m old. I’ll be dead before things become dire. But I have grandchildren and great grandchildren who will be left to try to survive. My vote is my statement. It makes very little difference to the outcome of the election because the Conservative is a shoe in. — Ken Middleton, via email

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I’ve always been a Conservative supporter and will never support the Liberal party, whoever is leading. As far as Mark Carney is concerned, in my opinion he is far worse than Trudeau. Carney is a globalist and an elitist. — Tamara Clarke, Kamloops, via email

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Change: Yes. Voting NDP as I would usually do is a waste now. All hands on deck to keep Poilievre out. Carney is best to deal with Trump, easily. I'd even urge him to appoint Freeland as trade negotiator again, though that might be a bear-poking too far. — Roger Shiner, via email

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NO. — Ralph Higgs, via email

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PM Carney absolutely changes my vote, or allows me to keep voting Liberal. I was very uneasy about voting for Pierre Poilievre, so this is a welcome change. — Helen Price, via email

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Yes, Mark Carney as Liberal leader encourages me to vote Liberal this coming election. He's the only party leader who has dealt with Trump, and knows how to react to his insanity. — Dianne Jackson, via email

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If you listen to the words Carney uses, he is going to take consumer carbon tax off consumers and put it on the producers. My interpretation of this is that we won't see carbon tax listed on our heating bills, but the cost of the gas will go up to make up the difference. That is a net difference to me, or the government is the same. — Ray Odland, via email

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Until the other parties get their act together, instead of belittling other parties and leaders, and can provide me with a future plan for Canada, I will stick with the Liberals. I am so tired of the party bashing, it gets us nowhere. —  Marti Giroux, via email

Kelowna advocacy group challenges property tax exemption for religious groups

Just as regular citizens have to produce receipts, so should religious organizations. If they can't prove that they are contributing in a positive way to the local community using their funds then they should pay tax like the rest of us. — Gary Kirkpatrick, via iNFOnews.ca

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