Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Moratorium on mink farms? No, they should be banned forever
KAMLOOPS - HUMANS AREN'T THE ONLY ONES being affected by COVID-19. Several mink have been found to be infected with the disease at a B.C. mink farm at which eight workers have also tested positive.Rep...
Dec 17, 2020
ROTHENBURGER – Drug overdoses need action but so does the Ajax mine
KAMLOOPS - A NATIONAL EMERGENCY on drug overdoses will be declared if the powers in Ottawa listen to Kamloops City council.The council received a notice of motion Tuesday from three of its members cal...
Dec 16, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Numbers don’t add up on Horgan’s $1,000 election bonus
KAMLOOPS - BRITISH COLUMBIANS can apply for their thousand-dollar election bonus on Friday. That's the one John Horgan promised us a couple of months ago as a Christmas gift, though it won't get to an...
Dec 15, 2020
GINTA: In times of trouble, helping goes a long way and in more than one way
NO MATTER WHERE YOU TURN, you get reminded that it's almost Christmas. Of course, that's great and exciting for many. And then, even in a normal year, Christmas is a trying time for so many others. Th...
Dec 14, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Success of COVID-19 vaccines comes down to a matter of trust
KAMLOOPS - THE FIRST DOSES OF VACCINE against COVID-19 arrived in Canada on Sunday night, bringing a ray of hope. Vaccinations won't be mandatory and that's the way it should be but it means enough pe...
Dec 14, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: City’s nuisance properties bylaw is proving its worth
IT'S A BIT RICH, to say the least, that the Kamloops Accommodation Association is grouching about the City's crackdown on nuisance motels on Columbia Street West.That particular area has been the subj...
Dec 12, 2020
PETERS: New policy on community COVID-19 data is a victory for transparency — but a small one
YOU WON A SMALL VICTORY THIS WEEK and you might not even know it. Let me explain.Ever since the pandemic arrived here in B.C., we have been fielding a lot of questions from the public about what our p...
Dec 11, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: Future generations will regard the TMX pipeline as a curious monument
THE TRANS MOUNTAIN (TMX) PIPELINE may be redundant. If it remains empty, future generations will wonder why it was built.It's a distinct possibility that the TMX pipeline, currently being twinned a sh...
Dec 10, 2020
ROTHENBURGER – Best way to memorialize Katherine McParland is to continue her work
KAMLOOPS - ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER the death of Katherine McParland became known last weekend, ideas started coming forward about how to memorialize her: a plaque, naming a street, a building, a prog...
Dec 10, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Christmas travellers and revellers need to reconsider
KAMLOOPS - THE OLD HOLIDAY SONG 'I'll Be Home For Christmas' will have to be re-titled this year to 'I'll Stay Home For Christmas' or, at least, move the lyric "If only in my dreams" up top.Dr. Bonnie...
Dec 09, 2020
