Category Archives: Column
PETERS: No, the cure for COVID-19 is not worse than the disease
DR. BONNIE HENRY HAS SPENT about nine months in the middle of an impossible struggle.On the one side, she is being tugged by those who believe her actions to stop the COVID-19 pandemic have not gone f...
Nov 20, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: Facemasks should be worn but not be mandated
IT'S TEMPTING TO CHANGE BAD BEHAVIOUR through mandates. The reasoning is that citizens will stop doing bad things if they are told not to.The problem with mandates is compliance. Unlike laws, which ar...
Nov 19, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: More can be done to keep COVID-19 away from our schools
KAMLOOPS - HERE'S A HUMBLE SUGGESTION for reducing the risk of spreading COVID-19 among school kids: make them wear masks and keep their distance outside as well as inside.The B.C. Teachers Federation...
Nov 19, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Keep patio extensions, lose the Fourth Avenue mall idea
KAMLOOPS - WOULD YOU sit outside on a downtown or Tranquille Corridor patio in the middle of December or January sipping a latte or having a sandwich?City council gave the OK Tuesday to patio extensio...
Nov 18, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Police need to ramp up transparency in crime reports
KAMLOOPS - EVERY FEW DAYS, it seems, there's a report from Kamloops RCMP about a break-in at a business.In many cases, a general location is provided - such as the street and block - but the business ...
Nov 17, 2020
GINTA: We must be there for those who cannot afford to say ‘I’m tired’
IT'S TWO YEARS THIS NOVEMBER since I first met Jessie Simpson. I remember entering his room at the long-term care facility, wondering how it would go. Well, it was smiles all around because Jessie smi...
Nov 16, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: More stores should get tough on COVID-19 before it happens
KAMLOOPS - THERE ARE TWO KINDS of stores: the kind that diligently sanitizes and takes other preventive measures after one or more COVID-19 cases have been found, and the kind that takes diligent prev...
Nov 16, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Two years in, how are City council newbies performing?
TWO NOVEMBERS AGO, a new Kamloops City council was sworn in. They took an oath to "truly, faithfully and impartially" carry out their duties.Four of the nine members of council were brand new to the j...
Nov 14, 2020
PETERS: Picture painted of the RIH Patient Care Tower COVID-19 outbreak is far from complete
SOMETHING STINKS to high heaven about the information coming out - and not coming out - concerning the COVID-19 outbreak at the Royal Inland Hospital Patient Care Tower.What we know officially is that...
Nov 13, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: Our PM has more power than a rational US president
LET'S COMPARE THE POWERS of our prime minister and the U.S. president under the assumption that rational persons occupy the positions.Our P.M. has more powers than the U.S. president. U.S. Ambassador ...
Nov 12, 2020
