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FEBRUARY 2, 2018 | Volume 31 No. 10
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HUMAN RIGHTS Marie-Claude Landry, head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, was in Kamloops this week
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ONE OF THE BEST Twin Rivers principal gets national honour
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Stone confident as party elects leader ANDREA KLASSEN STAFF REPORTER andrea@kamloopsthisweek.com
Just the good ol’ boys, never meanin’ no harm? Or a racist symbol that has no place on a school wall? A student’s decision to scratch out the Confederate flag from a former student’s painting of the General Lee, the car from the TV series The Dukes of Hazzard, has created controversy at South Kamloops secondary.
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As the B.C. Liberal leadership race approaches its end, Todd Stone is happy to be in the crosshairs. “I must be doing something right when the NDP are throwing everything but the kitchen sink at me and four of my leadership competitors are doing the same,” the Kamloops-South Thompson MLA and B.C. Liberal leadership hopeful told KTW on Thursday, the first of three days of phone and online voting. “I think their numbers tell us the same story that our numbers tell us, which is that since the debate last Tuesday, our campaign has steadily gained momentum and is strongly positioned to win this thing,” Stone said. He will learn Saturday night whether his prediction is correct. Other leadership hopefuls include former Liberal cabinet ministers Mike de Jong and Andrew Wilkinson, former Surrey mayor and Conservative MP Diane Watts and MLAs Sam Sullivan and Michael Lee. Voting members will use a preferential ballot, in which they rank as many or as few candidates as they wish. Candidates must also earn geo-
graphical support across the province, with each riding assigned 100 points, which will be distributed to candidates based on their performances in each riding. The final days of the campaign have been filled with controversy for Stone concerning his handling of ICBC during his days as minister of transportation and with his campaign’s membership sign-ups. Earlier this week, workers with the campaigns of four of his rivals — Wilkinson, Watts, Lee and de Jong — claimed in a letter there had been irregularities in the Stone campaign’s new membership sign-ups and demanded a full accounting of any deliberations from party executive. In a statement, the party said a “significant number” of applications were rejected from each campaign, but would not comment on Stone specifically. Stone said allegations of improper sign-ups are untrue and a sign his competitors are worried about their own chances. “I chalk this allegation up to desperation on the part of the other candidates,” he said. See STONE, A5
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