Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Paying for inflation with our credit cards will end badly
HAD COFFEE with a friend yesterday. Perhaps feeling a bit rebellious, I tipped the barista only 18 per cent, down from the 20 I was allotting during the height of the pandemic.It's not exactly going t...
Sep 07, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Back to school means the end of summer vacation from COVID
IT'S BACK TO SCHOOL and that means a lot of things. For many, it means the end of summer fun. Normally, the biggest thing we have to worry about is getting used to school-zone speed limits. But the ne...
Sep 06, 2022
COLLINS: The holiday Canada gave the world
SO SAYS THE HEADLINE on the website of the National Union of Public and General Employees. The headline, of course, refers to Labour Day, today.Activities in Kamloops will consist of a picnic in the p...
Sep 05, 2022
COLLINS: Please spare us the stupidity
MY EYESIGHT MUST be failing me. With all the shootings going on, even if we limit the numbers to Canada and the United States, you would think that there would be a massive outcry for something to be ...
Sep 04, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Good voices being lost at Kamloops City council table
CHANGE IS COMING to Kamloops City council - more than half the current office-holders will be gone after the Oct. 15 civic election. Folks who have been crying "Throw the scoundrels out" are indirectl...
Sep 03, 2022
COLLINS: How do we mend a broken health care system?
THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM has for years been eroded by lack of care and too many short-term solutions. We have tried.to put our finger in the dike but we don't have enough fingers left. We have run out o...
Sep 02, 2022
SOUND OFF: Lack of NDP action on crime putting people at risk
NEARLY ANYWHERE YOU GO IN B.C., people are talking about the sudden and dramatic increase in violent crime in our communities.It is something we are seeing in Vancouver, Kelowna, Prince George and eve...
Sep 01, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: It’s the season of electioneering, and trashing campaign signs
CAMPAIGN SIGNS are springing up for the fall civic election already and, if this election is like those in the past, a lot of people will be annoyed by them.More than a few find them to be an ugly clu...
Sep 01, 2022
SOUND OFF: More opportunities for rural Indigenous students to thrive
AN IMPORTANT PART OF RECONCILIATION with Indigenous peoples in B.C. is making sure Indigenous youth have every opportunity to learn, thrive, and succeed. For many young people, post-secondary educatio...
Aug 31, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: The world would be much different if Diana had lived
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO today, I was pulling into a parking spot at a convenience store on my way home from work when the news came on the radio - Diana, Princess of Wales, was dead, killed in a terribl...
Aug 31, 2022
