Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER – Forcing more cars onto the street won’t solve housing shortage
KAMLOOPS - FROM SHIPPING CONTAINERS to allowing multi-family development in commercial areas, it was an action-packed committee-of-the-whole meeting yesterday. That's the meeting where the entire City...
Jun 16, 2021
PETERS: Statues, reconciliation and Canada Day 2021
WE'VE SAID BEFORE that societies don't erect statues of people they want to simply remember; they erect statues of people they want to celebrate, to venerate, to hold up as an example of a person of g...
Jun 11, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Man who ran down family with his truck doesn’t deserve notoriety
A DESPICABLE YOUNG MAN jumped his pickup truck onto a sidewalk in London, Ont. last weekend and killed four members of an extended family. A nine-year-old child survived but is in serious condition.Po...
Jun 09, 2021
PETERS: For the future of Canada's sake, we must overcome our fear of change
A FEW WEEKS AGO, our newsroom took a phone call from a gentleman who was hopping mad. The object of his ire? The Real Canadian Superstore. The man was complaining that Superstore had changed its layou...
Jun 04, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Finding somewhere for the street folks to go isn’t easy
KAMLOOPS - YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED, as you drive up from Victoria Street West onto Seymour, there's usually a half dozen street folks hanging out at the honking big utilities box beside the sidewalk.It...
Jun 02, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Discovery of gravesites highlights the tragedy of Indian residential schools
THE GRIM DISCOVERY of the apparent gravesites of 215 children will undoubtedly change some thinking about what went on at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in the almost 90 years it operated. The...
May 29, 2021
PETERS: We call them survivors
WE CALL THEM SURVIVORS.Indigenous people who attended the schools in Canada's residential school system are not called 'former students' or 'attendees' or 'graduates.' We call them survivors. Like sur...
May 28, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: It will be very easy to blow the Four Step COVID recovery plan
KAMLOOPS - THE BIG COVID ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday has brought a lot less cheering than I expected.After all, restrictions are going to ease up considerably, with the "circuit breaker" gone immediately, ...
May 26, 2021
PETERS: Riverside Park debate shows voting at the polls more valuable than one-off consultations
YOU KNOW HOW EVERY TIME AN ELECTION APPROACHES, there are impassioned pleas for people to get out and vote? It's often a case of too little, too late. Unless a potential voter is continually given rea...
May 21, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: City council blew it by springing Riverside Park plan on the public
KAMLOOPS - PUBLIC CONSULTATION is a great aspiration for public bodies but Kamloops City council failed the test yesterday on the issue of commercializing Riverside Park.With only Denis Walsh and Arju...
May 19, 2021
