Category Archives: Column
PETERS: Minos' proclamation drew a line in the sand — and most customers are on the other side
It goes without saying that the life of a restaurant owner is not a lot of laughs right now - but for anyone who owns a Kamloops Greek restaurant not named Minos, life just got a little better.You are...
May 14, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Fast-food workers need our understanding during COVID
FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS are tough places to work these days. One would think we'd have worked out our angst over mask wearing by now. Yet incidents of confrontation occur every day between employees and...
May 12, 2021
PETERS: For the Snowbirds, simply returning to Kamloops was as tough as any aerial manoeuvre
FOR MOST OF US, Kamloops envelopes our entire life.The mention of the city's name evokes thoughts of family, thoughts of work and memories of a place that, for better or worse, we have decided to call...
May 07, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: Get the carbon out of natural gas
TURNING NATURAL GAS INTO HYDROGEN might sound like the alchemist's dream of turning lead into gold but the technology has been around for decades.It's long been the dream of our fossil fuel-hungry soc...
May 06, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Bungled messaging on AstraZeneca will hurt vaccine rollout
KAMLOOPS - CANADIANS CAN BE FORGIVEN for feeling exasperated over the advice they're getting on COVID-19 vaccines.The story is a familiar one. Health experts forcefully say we should do a certain thin...
May 05, 2021
GINTA: Legacy matters — Why our beautiful world deserves the best
IT HAD RAINED ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT and the woods were alive with bird songs in early morning when dog and I headed out for a hike in our beloved Peterson Creek Park. The rain made the forest look alive,...
May 03, 2021
PETERS: Flawed parole system means Shearing still holds all the power over the family of his victims
YOU CAN SAY DAVID SHEARING SHOULD BE PUT TO DEATH, but that's just not going to happen.You can say he should remain in prison forever, but according to the sentence he was given, he will continue to r...
Apr 30, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: B.C.'s new travel restrictions easy to break, easy to follow
KAMLOOPS - THE BARK OF TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS in B.C. is a lot worse than their bite.Take camping, for example. British Columbians must go camping in spring - it's in our DNA.As of right now, we aren't a...
Apr 28, 2021
GINTA: Let’s focus on the things we can do and remember what matters
DEPENDING ON WHO YOU ASK, you'll hear from some people that they are making the best of their time and days in general, restrictions notwithstanding. Others will explicitly express their frustrations ...
Apr 26, 2021
PETERS: The week that was presented frustration, elation — and hope
ONE OF THE BENEFITS of commenting about the news on Friday is the perspective afforded by being able to look back on the week that was. And what a week this was. On Monday, the federal government brou...
Apr 23, 2021
