Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Common sense played no role in council’s curling club decision
A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD is important in business but sometimes it can be a little too level. For example, have you ever decided to go to the concession at the Kamloops Curling Club for a meal, instead o...
Sep 21, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Queen’s funeral was spectacular, and it proved something
IF YOU MISSED the Queen's funeral yesterday, you should kick yourself.Not just because she deserves our respect. I'm talking about the pomp and circumstance of it all.It was solemn yet uplifting. It w...
Sep 20, 2022
COLLINS: The worst part of election campaigns
THE SIGNS ARE OUT. The city, like all cities leading up to an election of any sort, is strewn with signs. I've always hated the blight they put on the landscape. They are, unfortunately, a necessary e...
Sep 18, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Is cutting off the ‘lolly’ another way of saying NDP is out of ideas?
LOWERING EXPECTATIONS seems to be the strategy of the John Horgan government this week.He chose the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler to do it. About a thousand mayors, counci...
Sep 17, 2022
PETERS: All this talk about action is still just talk
MLA TODD STONE BEGAN HIS COLUMN on CFJC Today this week by quoting Ashcroft Mayor Barbara Roden, who was in turn quoting punk legends DOA with this mathematical equation: talk minus action equals zero...
Sep 16, 2022
COLLINS: Police under increasing pressure
THERE HAS BEEN A MARKED INCREASE in the number of police-involved shootings this year. The IIO, which looks into officer-involved shootings, says it is investigating 18 cases since April 1, with a cou...
Sep 16, 2022
SOUND OFF: NDP has no new ideas to solve healthcare crisis
"TALK MINUS ACTION EQUALS ZERO" Those were the words of Ashcroft Mayor Barbara Roden, one of the many local government representatives frustrated beyond belief by Health Minister Adrian Dix's panel ev...
Sep 15, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Running for two elected jobs at the same time should be banned
LOTS OF FAMILIAR FACES will be on the civic-election campaign trail, and a lot of new ones, too. In some cases, it adds up to a 50 per cent turnover.Some candidates are returning from a political brea...
Sep 15, 2022
SOUND OFF: Helping families with rising costs
GLOBAL INFLATION IS MAKING LIFE MORE EXPENSIVE for people around the world. In BC, we've seen costs go up for groceries, gas and other household essentials. Family budgets are being stretched, and we ...
Sep 14, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Day of Mourning should have been declared a full stat
MONDAY WILL BE a national holiday to mark the Queen's funeral. Not everybody thinks it's a good idea and not everybody will get the day off.Federal employees will be off work, but several provinces wi...
Sep 14, 2022
