By Kim Van Haren Many would agree that animals deserve to live their lives free from unnecessary pain and suffering. Because animal farms aren’t well…
Former Adventure Studies faculty member Brad Harrison and current student Madison Adams focus on practising avalanche safety skills and managing avalanche risk at Sun Peaks. Read…
KAMLOOPS — Thompson Rivers University (TRU) is on the precipice of establishing an Institute for Wildfire Science, Adaptation and Resiliency after endorsement by Senate at…
While polar bears tend to avoid humans and stick to cold climates, advocating for them has taken TRU alum Alysa McCall (BSc Hons ’10) from…
Pauline Streete - TRU's first executive director of the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) and Anti-Racism - speaks with Kamloops This Week about EDI,…
The British Columbia Court of Appeal recently cited TRU Law Professor Christopher Hunt. In its decision, ICBC v Ari, 2023 BCCA 331, the BC Court…
Much has changed in Kamloops since Cariboo College alum, Justice Joel Groves, started his post-secondary journey in 1977. The city’s population has nearly doubled, Cariboo…
Taxation implications, land-use legalities, Charter rights, codified reconciliation — if a law student needed a firsthand lesson in what’s happening in on the BC legal…
Law Assistant Professor Matt Malone has been invited to speak at the annual International Conference on Cyber Conflict (CyCon), which is held by NATO’s Co-operative…
Canadian scholar, author and activist Dr. Sherene Razack has spent decades researching, writing and teaching about racial violence. Best known for her contributions to feminist…
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) Faculty of Law Professor Craig Jones, K.C., has been retained by the attorney general of British Columbia to serve as general…
The world’s eight most extreme wildfire weather years have occurred in the last decade, according to a new study that suggests extreme fire weather is…
The City of Vernon installed six new air quality monitoring sensors in neighbourhoods around the city. The new civic-installed sensors are believed to be the…
An anonymous donation to Thompson Rivers University totalling $1.4 million will go toward helping to keep qualified early childhood educators from leaving the profession. The…
Pokémon is the highest-grossing media franchise of all time, with anime, video games, manga and trading cards — which have almost always maintained a degree…
Geographer and environmental studies faculty member Michael Mehta talks with radio host Jeff Andreas about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments regarding carbon tax at the…
For the last 25 years, Karl Larsen has been studying the rodents that live in the hills around Kamloops. This past weekend, he wrapped up…
This fall, Karl Larsen and Sheri Watson from Natural Resource Sciences celebrated an unusual silver anniversary. For 25 years, students in their NRSC (Natural Resource…
Two TRU researchers believe B.C.’s property transfer tax aimed at foreign buyers fuelled the red-hot real estate market in Chilliwack. Dr. Jabed Tomal from TRU’s…
Climate change will affect ski resort season length and quality due to variability of snowfall amounts and weather patterns, at both a high and low…
