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Tk’emlúps Healing House envisions ‘reclamation, resilience and self-determination’

By Lyssa Martin, Local Journalism Initiative Reportrer ● In-depth ● December 16, 2025

Kúkwpi7 Rosanne Casimir sits down with The Wren to discuss the nation’s $12.5-million project for residential school survivors and descendants.

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A photo of the office of the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre. It has a big white poster with the letters KSACC and smaller words below which show what it is. This is the entrance to the office.

In depth: How Kamloops sex workers find support through community

By Macarena Mantilla ● News ● November 19, 2025

‘We are the ones best positioned to say what we need in this industry,’ a sex worker in Kamloops tells The Wren.

‘I wasn’t sure what I was going to do and I was scared’: Kamloops addictions services offer a lifeline

By Eagle Andersen, Diego Machado & Dermot Lonergan Dermot Lonergan ● Community ● September 2, 2025

From detox beds to recovery centres and harm reduction, Kamloopsians face a changing treatment landscape.

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‘Act of resistance in learning our language’: Why revitalizing Secwepemctsín matters to language advocates

By Macarena Mantilla, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter ● In-depth ● July 15, 2025

‘It’s learning about our worldview as Secwépemc,’ says St̓uxtéws (Bonaparte) First Nation member Candice Day, as she learns to speak her ancestral tongue.

Tk’emlups te Secwepemc members ride on horseback carrying shields emblazoned with the message "we were here first" behind a replica of Fort Thompson in the city’s 1937 Dominion Day parade

The complex, changing ways Kamloopsians marked July 1 through the decades

By Lyssa Martin ● In-depth ● July 8, 2025

Kamloops’ archival photos show how Canada Day celebrations evolved here — from attempts to erase Indigenous and immigrant contributions to the city, to embracing them.

In photos: A look back at Kamloops’ May Day festivities

By Lyssa Martin ● News ● March 11, 2025

With a new season set to blossom, the storied — and at times, controversial — history of the city’s longtime spring festival comes into focus.

Kamloops’ oldest parade photos reveal pomp, circumstance and racism at the turn of the 20th century

By Lyssa Martin ● News ● January 28, 2025

From a dragon dance to a revisionist ‘centenary,’ these historic parade photos provide a unique window to the young town of Kamloops.

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Meet Doug the beaver, the Secwépemc watershed recovery engineer

By Lyssa Martin, Local Journalism Initiative Reportrer ● In-depth ● November 26, 2024

Skeetchestn’s Tsecmenúl̓ecwem-kt (We Repair the Land) project works with four-legged allies to engineer the Deadman Watershed’s repair.

A mural of a woman with flowing hair surrounded by flowers and stars displayed outside of the Kamloops Aboriginal Friendship Society.

Fact-checking claims about recovery: People struggling on the streets are from outside Kamloops

By Sunny Stranks ● Roadmap to Recovery ● November 12, 2024

Claim: People struggling on the streets in Kamloops aren’t ‘from here.’ The Wren reports.

‘Every little bit helps’: How Kamloops entrepreneurs are responding to social disorder and crime

By Lauren Kaljur ● In-depth ● August 27, 2024

As business owners, the city and social agencies call on more support from the province, these local entrepreneurs are turning frustration into action.