Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER – The ‘self-care Bingo card’ isn’t worth getting angry about
KAMLOOPS - WE HAVE A LOT OF THINGS to get frustrated over when it comes to how our governments have been communicating on the COVID-19 pandemic, but the 'Self-care Bingo card' isn't one of them.Somebo...
Feb 25, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Action, not just words, needed on social housing and crime
KAMLOOPS - KUDOS TO SEVERAL CITY COUNCILLORS who are determined to wrestle the issue of social housing and associated street crime to the ground.Coun. Bill Sarai presented a lengthy notice of motion a...
Feb 24, 2021
ROTHENBURGER – Wells Gray killer David Ennis must remain locked up
KAMLOOPS - MASS MURDERER DAVID ENNIS, formerly David William Shearing, is up for parole in July, and thousands of people are fighting to make sure he stays in jail.If he chooses to go in front of the ...
Feb 23, 2021
GINTA: Teachers deserve to be listened to for the sake of us all
You may have peeked at the news of the new variants appearing in some schools in the Lower Mainland. As I started writing, two more schools have been added to the exposure list for the U.K. variant, b...
Feb 22, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Dog owners deserve little sympathy on late-payment penalty
KAMLOOPS - KAMLOOPS DOG OWNERS complaining about new late fees for tardy payment of annual dog licences don't deserve much sympathy.Non-payment of dog licences has been a thing in Kamloops since anyon...
Feb 22, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Nothing like a night in the ER to make us appreciate our health care
IF YOU HAPPENED to spend the night on a gurney in the Emergency Department hallway recently, you would have gotten a pretty good idea of the challenges faced by our healthcare workers 24/7.The first c...
Feb 20, 2021
PETERS: What did Sukh Gill do wrong at the TNRD? Nothing and everything
BRILLIANT, LONG-TERM INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING by Jessica Wallace and Kamloops This Week has revealed the extent to which Sukh Gill was raiding the public purse while CAO of the Thompson-Nicola Regional...
Feb 19, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: The new climate deniers
THE NEW CLIMATE DENIERS no longer deny that climate change is happening. It's become too obvious that it is.It used to be that climate change deniers could ridicule the notion that the Earth was warmi...
Feb 18, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: What the City’s survey on parking management doesn’t say
KAMLOOPS - PUBLIC FEEDBACK ON PARKING is underway after a delay caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.Residents, whether they live in Kamloops or outside of town but use public parking downtown or on the No...
Feb 18, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: New gun control bill a disappointing mish mash of half measures
KAMLOOPS - AS MUCH AS WE NEED better gun control laws in this country, the latest measures unveiled yesterday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have me baffled.I have no quarrel with the sweeping bans ...
Feb 17, 2021
