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Quick year-end actions: pick one or do them all!

Transition Kamloops  December 12, 2025 at 11:04 am

Have you got 15 minutes? Here are a few small but helpful actions that you can do in that time:

  • The City is accepting feedback on the 2026 budget until 4 pm on Friday, December 19. There’s a survey on the Let’s Talk site, and the last question is an open invitation to bring up what’s most important to you. The idea of scrapping the previously approved transit hour increase has been floated at Council, despite Kamloops having one of the highest transit usage rates in the province. Please consider encouraging the City to follow through on the planned transit enhancement. There is competition among municipalities for hours offered by BC Transit, and if Kamloops turns them down now, we will likely be offered fewer hours going forward.

 

  • Are you happy with the federal government’s priorities? We’re dismayed at the commitment to a new pipeline to Hecate Strait, the most dangerous waters in Canada (without even consulting with First Nations or the province of BC!?!) and the fast-tracking of a new LNG project (at the same time that other countries are trying to get out of their long-term contracts to buy LNG). In the long run, these projects do not make economic sense. On top of that, the federal government is weakening anti-greenwashing laws. Why not send season’s greetings and share your thoughts on the subject with Prime Minister Carney via a postage-free card? Here’s a handy letter-writing guide from our friends at First Things First Okanagan and the West Kootenay Climate Hub. If it’s easier for you to send an email, cc your local MP and consider adding media to the list – see addresses below.

 

  • BC’s all party Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform has just recommended a new Citizens’ Assembly. The last time BC used this process (over 20 years ago), everyday residents designed a fairer voting system and a majority of voters backed it. The only thing that stopped change was a political threshold designed to block reform. A new Assembly means BC can revisit this work in a fair process that lets people, not parties, decide how we elect governments. This is a rare chance to correct past blunders and move toward real proportional representation. Let’s give our Premier a nudge to follow through on the recommendations of the all-party committee! Have a look at the letter I wrote and please consider writing your own. It doesn’t need to be perfect or even very long: just say you want a CA on electoral reform—or feel free to tell them to just implement reform based on the widespread support for proportional representation shown in a recent poll. Addresses given below.

 

After that, warm up a nice mug of cocoa and congratulate yourself on having done your part. Way to go!

 

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Transition Kamloops is a volunteer-driven, registered not-for-profit society focused on increasing local resilience and self-sufficiency in food, water, energy, culture and wellness. We emphasize a local economy, healthy ecosystems, and grassroots community building, while reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. We believe in a better way: a community that sustains life in all its diversity, strives for equality and justice and invests in the future.

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