Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Site C looks more and more like a mega project doomed to fail
KAMLOOPS- THE SITE C DAM was always a failure waiting to happen and it looks like the wait may be over.Premier John Horgan has hired more experts to look into whether continuing work on the gigantic w...
Jan 19, 2021
GINTA: The last thing we want to deal with in a pandemic is selfishness
IF THIS FEELS LIKE dj vu... well, it is. Part of it anyway. The part about people choosing to gather in large numbers in the streets to protest, yet again, masks and other COVID restrictions. Never mi...
Jan 18, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Happy Blue Monday, things can only get better from here
KAMLOOPS - IF YOU'RE NOT DEPRESSED today, you should be. At least, if you believe in Blue Monday.The third Monday in January, that's today, is supposedly the most depressing day of the year. The weath...
Jan 18, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Arjun Singh’s valiant, short-lived plan to get something done
THERE ARE ALWAYS GOOD REASONS not to do something. Coun. Arjun Singh heard a lot about that this week.Singh put together a notice of motion asking City staff to look into fast forwarding plans for an ...
Jan 16, 2021
PETERS: As Interior Health COVID-19 cases rise, we need a pep talk
ALL RIGHT, RESIDENTS OF INTERIOR HEALTH: it's time for a pep talk.It's time for the coach to come in during the intermission and kick some garbage cans around.It's time for us to get our collective he...
Jan 15, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: Trump's big-tent coalition of the deluded
PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ASSEMBLED a ragtag rabble of misfits into "Trump's Army".The disgraced president was able to unite marginalized groups in a way no other president has done. Believers in alien abdu...
Jan 14, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Giving vaccine to inmates not as clear an issue as it seems
MORE CANADIANS THAN EVER want in on COVID-19 immunization. A new poll says the percentage is up to 60 per cent, and most people worry about having to wait too long.It's inevitable there will be disagr...
Jan 14, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Air Canada’s suspension of Kamloops service should be no surprise
WHY IS ANYONE SURPRISED that Air Canada is suspending flights to and from Kamloops effective Jan. 23?All the travel restrictions, including the requirement for COVID tests, quarantines and a general i...
Jan 13, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Bring the hammer down on idlers and other road rules abusers
DRIVING LAWS SHOULD BE easy to obey and, yet, so many of us take them as mere suggestions. Some examples today.First up, listen to this story from a viewer:"Yesterday in the Staples parking lot a mass...
Jan 12, 2021
GINTA: Why we need to continue to talk about racism
WE ENDED THE PREVIOUS YEAR with a big sigh and dutifully wished each other a better 2021. Life coaches out there will tell you that positive thinking will get things done, yet sometimes it becomes evi...
Jan 11, 2021
