Category Archives: Column
PETERS: This election campaign has not been a battle of good and evil
AS WITH MOST ELECTION CAMPAIGNS, some have framed this one in B.C. as a battle of good versus evil.It's not a helpful characterization, even if partisans deem it a way to help them win.Black-and-white...
Oct 23, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: One-time handout to the homeless reduces social costs
IT MAY SEEM COUNTERINTUITIVE to give cash to homeless people. Didn't their poor money skills get them on the street in the first place?The University of British Columbia decided to find out in an expe...
Oct 22, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Deadline rule on receipt of mail-in ballots needs to be changed
KAMLOOPS - WITH TWO DAYS TO GO to election day in B.C., some 700,000 British Columbians have asked for mail-in ballots. Elections BC has been slow updating its numbers lately, but as of a week ago, ab...
Oct 22, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: What if a union endorsed Liberals instead of New Democrats?
KAMLOOPS - AN INTERESTING little sidebar to the local election campaign played out yesterday over whether a City of Kamloops union should be supporting candidates.Specifically, a Facebook post by BC L...
Oct 21, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Wilkinson’s leadership hangs in the balance this week
KAMLOOPS - IN THE WANING DAYS of the provincial election, BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson has been distracted from his key policy promises - such as suspending the provincial sales tax - by unwante...
Oct 20, 2020
GINTA: Let’s all do our part to reduce the risk of pedestrian fatalities and severe injuries
IT WAS NOT THE FACT THAT the car in front of me was driving faster than 30 km/h in the school zone on Summit. Drivers can often and inadvertently find themselves going 50 in a school zone, which is wh...
Oct 19, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: CP Rail needs to be clear on its intentions for Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - CP RAIL NEEDS to come clean on its plans for expanded trackage in Kamloops.The railway announced in a news release on its website a week and a half ago it will shut down the Jack Gregson Tr...
Oct 19, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: The many benefits of a snap election during a pandemic
FOR ALL THE COMPLAINING (including my own) about holding an election during the pandemic, things have gone quite nicely.With only a week to go until election day, everyone seems to have adapted to big...
Oct 17, 2020
PETERS: Nathaniel Martin's Cutober shines a light on pandemic domestic violence
NATHANIEL MARTIN SAYS he's no anti-masker and he is certainly taking the COVID-19 pandemic very seriously.But he's also concerned about the residual impacts of the pandemic and the subsequent public h...
Oct 16, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: A reliable postal system is an indication of a country’s democracy
I'VE FOUND THAT YOU CAN determine how well a country functions by how well its postal system works. When I lived in Australia, I could count on letters getting back to Canada. When in Mexico, not so m...
Oct 15, 2020
