Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER – Healthcare by phone likely to stay after pandemic is over
KAMLOOPS - IF YOU'VE HAD TO TALK to your family doctor or nurse practitioner in the past year, chances are you've been doing it by phone rather than with the usual office visit.COVID-19 has drasticall...
Mar 16, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Two-block rule of thumb on parking calls for change to PAC plans
KAMLOOPS - TWO BLOCKS. Those might be the two most important words that came out of a pair of City of Kamloops online information sessions on parking at the end of last week.Two blocks. That's the dis...
Mar 15, 2021
PETERS: With restrictions beginning to ease, let's not forget our seniors in long-term care
PROVINCIAL HEALTH OFFICER DR. BONNIE HENRY made a lot of people very, very happy this week when she eased restrictions on gathering to allow outdoor meetings of up to 10 people.The people she made hap...
Mar 12, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: One big grid is the solution to secure electricity
PROFESSOR MICHAEL D. MEHTA of Thompson Rivers University makes a number of good points in his recent article regarding a secure electrical system.However, he's thinking in the wrong direction when he ...
Mar 11, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Though much can change, Kamloops riding looks like more of the same
KAMLOOPS - NOW THAT SEVERAL CANDIDATES for the Conservative nomination in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo have declared their intentions, the race for the riding in the next federal election is at least uno...
Mar 11, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Pity Harry and Meghan; all they want is their cake and to eat it too
KAMLOOPS - THE QUEEN IS NOT AMUSED. She is "saddened" by the challenges faced by Meghan and Harry as outlined in an interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired in the U.K. a day after it was seen here.She...
Mar 10, 2021
ROTHENBURGER – Remembering the great toilet-paper panic of March 2020
KAMLOOPS - WHAT A DIFFERENCE A YEAR MAKES.You might think things haven't changed much since last March - COVID-19 still dominates every aspect of our lives. People are still getting sick and still dyi...
Mar 09, 2021
GINTA: Celebrating women need not be controversial; it is a beautiful and needed thing
One of the good things about an overcast morning is that, should you decide to take the dog to the beach, you'll have the place to yourselves for the most part. Though we're in a pandemic and many of ...
Mar 08, 2021
ROTHENBURGER – City council should stick to its guns on social housing security
KAMLOOPS - HOW MUCH CONSULTATION is needed before something is done about the security issue around supportive housing in Kamloops?A week ago, Coun. Bill Sarai presented a motion to require "all curre...
Mar 08, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Crackdown against film society shows science isn’t everything
FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. That's been the mantra of those in charge of the strategy to defeat COVID-19 and it's a good one.Too many people don't get that. They refuse to believe the science, mostly because ...
Mar 06, 2021
