Category Archives: Column
SOUND OFF: David Eby has nothing to say about crime in our communities
FOR SEVERAL MONTHS, David Eby has fended off opposition questions about repeat criminal offenders by telling us to patiently wait for the report he commissioned to look into the matter. It was finally...
Oct 13, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Endorsing civic election candidates is a waste of time and effort
IS THERE ANY POINT to endorsing civic-election candidates?It doesn't seem to make any difference in the outcome. The Kamloops and District Labour Council, for example, has been endorsing civic candida...
Oct 13, 2022
SOUND OFF: Transforming our healthcare system to put people first
EVERYONE IN B.C. DESERVES to have access to the health care they need, when they need it. And making sure that this care is available is one of the top priorities of our government. Last week, we took...
Oct 12, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Attention businesses — the buck stops with you on credit card fees
PASSING THROUGH THE CHECKOUT the other day, I asked the cashier if the store had implemented the new credit card interchange fees."Not yet," she said. "And I hope we never do."But some, or many, store...
Oct 12, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Here’s to community builders who step up against graffiti vandals
IF THERE WAS ANY DOUBT at all that graffiti is vandalism, the situation at the Heffley Creek Community Hall removes it.Like so many other community halls in our rural areas, the Heffley Creek hall ser...
Oct 11, 2022
COLLINS: New boundary plans are insane
THERE'S A REPORT being considered by the B.C. government that would increase the number of ridings and switch up some boundaries, including the ones in our two Kamloops ridings. Under the proposed pla...
Oct 10, 2022
COLLINS: Our healthcare system is running out of Band-Aids
EVERY DAY, WE SLAP another Band-Aid on the failing healthcare system, somehow thinking it's the problem-solver it can never be. The government has promised a solution but has given us a series of temp...
Oct 09, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Time for the Armchair Mayor's campaign sign report card
PAY ATTENTION, CLASS, it's time for the Armchair Mayor's election campaign signs report card, which I've been providing each election since 2008.I probably pay more attention to campaign signs than mo...
Oct 08, 2022
PETERS: Moving away from half-measures in the B.C. healthcare system
WE HEARD ANOTHER MEASURE of our public healthcare crisis recently.A whopping 40 per cent of Kamloops residents don't have a family doctor - well above the provincial average.When you really stop to th...
Oct 07, 2022
SOUND OFF: Kamloops transforms when we invest in a vision
In response to Mel Rothenburger's column 'Why holding one big referendum on new facilities would fail,' published on Oct. 6.IN 1978, KAMLOOPS VOTED in favour to build McArthur Island into a sports cen...
Oct 07, 2022
