Category Archives: Column
PETERS: Logan Lake paint spill just smalltown gossip fodder, not proof teens are terrible
THE BIG PAINT SPILL this week is something that will go down in the annals of small-town gossip history for Logan Lake.A 16-year-old is accused of emptying a huge paint drum on a parking lot, turning ...
Aug 21, 2020
CHARBONNEAU: The rocky relationship between CERB, EI and getting back to work
WHILE PARENTS WORRY about sending their kids back to school in September, millions will be without work and without government assistance. The Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) runs out in Sept...
Aug 20, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Masks and gloves are more important than ball caps and stress balls
KAMLOOPS - HAVE YOU EVER been to a conference that has booths set up for service and product providers of interest to the delegates?They're the ones in which you can circulate and chat with company or...
Aug 20, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Freeland’s appointment is a bright spot in troubled times
KAMLOOPS - THERE SHOULD BE ENOUGH politics to please even the biggest news junky this week.There's the Democratic online convention in the U.S., the Conservative leadership voting here at home, the re...
Aug 19, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: What the world really needs now is a better mask
KAMLOOOPS - HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT that, mask-wise, what the world really needs is a better mouse trap?Since the beginning of the pandemic, a lot of energy and money has been put into inventing a vacci...
Aug 18, 2020
GINTA: Make time for time away – you’ll be better for it
WE LEFT KAMLOOPS LAST SATURDAY and returned a week later. Our camping destination was just that: away from the craziness of life, away from breaking news and that obsessive daily COVID-19 count. It's ...
Aug 17, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Why do we always need more places to consume alcohol?
KAMLOOPS - I HAVE TO AGREE with Mayor Ken Christian when it comes to drinking in public parks.A handful of B.C. cities are trying it out on a pilot-project basis and, naturally, the question arises wh...
Aug 17, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: ‘Asphalt, beautiful hills, a beautiful view and a downtown that’s dying’
'IN KAMLOOPS, YOU GET IN YOUR CAR, you go to Chapters, there's four acres of asphalt, then you get in your car and you drive to Overwaitea, because that's two blocks down. There's Burger King, A&W...
Aug 15, 2020
PETERS: Recent trajectory is troubling, but no reason to change COVID-19 approach in B.C.
DR. BONNIE HENRY was asked a ridiculous question at Thursday's media briefing.The question was, "Because the approach B.C. has taken since March doesn't seem to be working, what action should people b...
Aug 14, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Pandemic has taught us that sports are actually important
KAMLOOPS - WHEN IT COMES to professional sports, I confess that, for the most part, I can take them or leave them.I'm the guy who only tunes in to the very last game of the series, or the last two min...
Aug 13, 2020
