Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER – Hot Nite was a welcome break but this pandemic isn’t over
KAMLOOPS - IT WAS SURREAL to walk downtown on Saturday through the throngs attending Hot Nite in the City. It actually wasn't hot, with temperatures in the 20s, and it wasn't night, since it wrapped u...
Aug 09, 2021
PETERS: Are we finally ready to agree on climate change
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc revelation of unmarked graves near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site has been said before.It's not that the rest of Canada didn't know a...
Aug 06, 2021
SOUND OFF: Small businesses survive pandemic, only to face wildfire woes
This summer isn't shaping up the way we expected. As more and more people got their COVID-19 vaccines and health restrictions started to ease, I know a lot of us - myself included - were looking forwa...
Aug 05, 2021
SOUND OFF: Vax for BC: Getting vaccinated in Kamloops easier than ever
IN THE PAST FEW MONTHS, millions of British Columbians have stepped up to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Because of these efforts, we have been able to reduce transmission of COVID-19 in our communi...
Aug 04, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Celebrities not the only ones suffering from mental illness
KAMLOOPS - MENTAL HEALTH is suddenly popular, at least in the sense that everybody's talking about it. Yesterday, American superstar gymnast Simone Biles won a bronze medal on the balance beam at the ...
Aug 04, 2021
PETERS: Government needs to provide a more convincing argument to vaccinate
I DON'T USUALLY talk about my family as part of this segment, but I feel I need to.I grew up in a town - I like to say it's a city, but it's really a town - called Winkler in southern Manitoba. Winkle...
Jul 30, 2021
ROTHENBURGER – Should B.C. get its own air wing for fighting wildfires?
KAMLOOPS - ONE OF THE MANY QUESTIONS on everybody's mind during this smoky, fiery summer is, "how can we do this better?"That is, are there more effective ways to fight wildfires than what we've been ...
Jul 28, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: New governor-general the right person to build bridges
KAMLOOPS - THE SWEARING IN of Canada's 30th governor general today is cause to feel good about our country and what it stands for.Not just because Mary Simon is a woman. That glass ceiling was broken ...
Jul 26, 2021
PETERS: Intentions were laudable, execution was lacking at The Loop
THERE IS MUCH TO BE LAUDED about what Glenn Hilke has done with The Loop, a pop-up non-profit agency that provided services for the people the rest of society has the most discomfort with: those who a...
Jul 23, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Lessons to learn from the overdue state of emergency
KAMLOOPS - AFTER MUCH RESISTANCE, the provincial government has finally declared a state of emergency, effective today, due to the wildfires consuming the Interior.According to Public Safety Minister ...
Jul 21, 2021
