Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Kudos to those who are giving us a real shot in the arm
KAMLOOPS - I GOT THE JAB yesterday. Right in the arm.It was very likely the smartest 45 minutes I've spent in more than a year. Kudos to the healthcare workers, volunteers, those on the phone lines an...
Apr 07, 2021
GINTA: It's not all doom and gloom as long as we make better choices
I AM NOT MUCH FOR VIRAL NEWS but every now and then I wish some stories I come across get shared far and wide because of how significant they are. The one I came across on social media a couple of day...
Apr 05, 2021
PETERS: The road is calling this long weekend. Please don't answer
MAYBE IT'S TOO LATE to ask you, beg you, plead with you not to travel this long weekend. Likely, if you're going somewhere to see family, you have already made those plans and the chances of convincin...
Apr 01, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: Electric cars aren’t a solution; they’re part of the problem
QUESTION: How do electric cars fit into the future of Canada's pedestrian-friendly cities with more green space, shorter travel times, and a focus on communities?Answer: They don't.The problem with el...
Apr 01, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: AstraZeneca – to jab or not to jab, that is the question
MY SHOT AT THE VACCINE is coming up pretty soon and, frankly, I'm concerned.It's about this little problem with AstraZeneca. People have died after getting it. Not a lot of people, but some. The curre...
Mar 31, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: There’s more to the $645,000 toilet than BC Libs are telling
BATHROOMS ARE EXPENSIVE but $645,000 for a toilet?That's how much the NDP government is spending on a public washroom in Vancouver, much to the professed astonishment of the BC Liberals.They've been h...
Mar 30, 2021
GINTA: Yes, there should be a price on water, soil and air pollution
The news that the Provincial Court of B.C. handed Teck Coal Limited a $60 million fine , the largest penalty yet for Fisheries Act offenses, sounded like great news and appropriately so. The coal comp...
Mar 29, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: We must stop assuming the mentally ill are more violent
THERE WERE TWO MORE horrible acts of mass violence on the weekend, this time in Canada, and this time very close to home.The first happened Saturday at a North Vancouver public library and shopping ma...
Mar 29, 2021
PETERS: A heart-warming Kamloops story generated a heart-warming audience response
A LOT OF PEOPLE say they love seeing the media cover good news and sick of all the bad news. That's patently not true. Audience analytics reliably tell you that it's the calamitous stories that get th...
Mar 26, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: Non-fungible tokens could help artists make a living
I DIDN'T REALIZE MY ART WAS NON-FUNGIBLE but that was because I didn't know what the word fungible meant. Until recently, fungible was rarely used outside legal circles.Now, non-fungible tokens (NFTs)...
Mar 25, 2021
