Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Transit drivers deserve more protection from violent passengers
KAMLOOPS -A MAN WHO ASSAULTED a Kamloops bus driver last April has been given a conditional discharge and put on probation for nine months.The driver was punched in the face after he told the man he w...
Sep 09, 2020
ROTHENBURGER – Protest at Trans Mountain work site was uneventful theatre
KAMLOOPS - BY ALL ACCOUNTS, an anti-pipeline protest at the airport last week went exactly the way it should. A protester chained herself to the gate at the Trans Mountain work site, was removed witho...
Sep 08, 2020
GINTA: Challenging times can help us build better health for our community
KAMLOOPS - We have a big week ahead. Kids are returning to school, and for the majority that means they'll be hanging out together in classes and other common spaces. All of us share much concern for ...
Sep 08, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Time to stop being complacent about the threat of Ajax
JUST LIKE THAT, Ajax is back in the news.Abacus Mining and Exploration Corp. announced this week that KGHM, its senior partner in Ajax, has hired a new superintendent "whose duties will initially be f...
Sep 05, 2020
PETERS: Better spacing needed as school restarts next week
PREPARE FOR BIGGER BUBBLES.That is essentially beginning next week as thousands of Kamloops students return to schools, representing an exponential increase in pandemic bubble size.Back-to-school is a...
Sep 04, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: Where the heck is Kenosha and why does it matter?
HARDLY ANYONE OUTSIDE OF Wisconsin had ever heard of Kenosha before a Black man, Jacob Blake, was shot by a policeman two weeks ago. The policeman, Rusten Sheskey, a seven-year veteran of the Kenosha ...
Sep 03, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: No matter what BC Liberals say, Horgan won’t call an election
KAMLOOPS - THE ONLY ONES WHO THINK there's going to be an election in this province this fall seem to be the BC Liberals.They're spreading the alarm, trying to get their troops fired up and prepared. ...
Sep 03, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Why disposable masks should be taken off store shelves
KAMLOOPS - WALMART IS DOING IT. As of yesterday, so is WestJet. Effective in a couple of weeks, Starbucks will be doing it, too.More and more, the wearing of masks is becoming a requirement for shoppi...
Sep 02, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: BCTF needs to chill out about Dr. Bonnie Henry’s TV blurb
KAMLOOPS -THE B.C. TEACHERS FEDERATION needs to get a life.Its members - at least some of them, including president Teri Mooring - are unhappy about a TV commercial featuring Dr. Bonnie Henry, claimin...
Sep 01, 2020
GINTA: Ignoring the issue of addiction, will only make it grow larger
It's International Overdose Awareness Day today. It's heartbreaking that we have one, but that's a conversation for another day. For now, let's think of everyone who lost a loved one to drug overdose,...
Aug 31, 2020
