Category Archives: Column
SOUND OFF: The Spirit of Giving
We typically talk about the holiday season being a time of giving and generosity, but I would argue that this has been in full display all year long. From the pandemic to fires and floods and even a h...
Dec 22, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Free rapid COVID testing should be available to all who want it
ALL THE FOCUS in yesterday's COVID-19 announcements was on new restrictions around public gathering places but one very important aspect of the pandemic strategy remains incomplete.The province will e...
Dec 22, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Keeping one diplomat home from Games will really show those Chinese
WHEN THE BOYCOTT of the upcoming Beijing Olympics by Canadian diplomats was announced, my first thought was that it's a weak-kneed response but better than nothing.It's now obvious, though, that it's ...
Dec 21, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Sorry, but whining travellers don’t deserve much sympathy
IT'S HARD TO SYMPATHIZE with all the complaining travellers who seem to think the pandemic is the government's fault.Every day, it seems, there's somebody on the news who got stuck in a foreign countr...
Dec 20, 2021
SOUND OFF: Working for you in 2021 and beyond
As the BC Liberal MLAs for Kamloops and the Thompson Valleys, we thank you for entrusting us as your voices in Victoria. We love the communities we represent and continue to advocate for the projects ...
Dec 17, 2021
PETERS: To the staff at Royal Inland Hospital — thank you
LIFE CAN CHANGE IN AN INSTANT. That instant comes for all of us - it just doesn't have the common courtesy to warn us ahead of time.For me, that instant came on a Saturday evening in November. My wife...
Dec 17, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Lesson still not learned on poor-quality video surveillance
ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER ROBBERY in Kamloops.A woman entered a shop, brandished a knife, and made off with the cash till. Police got hold of some surveillance tape showing the suspect walking along with a...
Dec 16, 2021
SOUND OFF: Safely bringing back our fairs, festivals, and events in 2022
Every community across the province has its own unique events that people look forward to each year. Whether it's an agricultural fair, an arts festival, or a sports tournament, these events bring us ...
Dec 15, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Let’s hope 2022 will tell us more about the missing children
IT'S NOT AT ALL A SURPRISE that residential school gravesite discoveries are the biggest news story of 2021.Editors of Canadian Press news outlets have chosen it as the story of the year over other ma...
Dec 15, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Lifting ban on nursing home staff taking multiple jobs makes sense
REMEMBER WHEN B.C.'s nursing homes were taking the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic?Residents of those facilities were dying by the score. By April of 2020 there were outbreaks in 24 B.C. long-term care...
Dec 14, 2021
