Category Archives: Column
CHARBONNEAU: Pandemic exposes failings of long-term care facilities in B.C.
IN 2002, THE BC LIBERALS HAD A GRAND PLAN to provide seniors with home-like settings. Added to that, they promised that the new residences would cost the government about half as much. Who wouldn't wa...
Jun 18, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Dr. Henry needs to end double standard and start trusting us
KAMLOOPS - THERE CONTINUES TO BE a double standard in the release of information where COVID-19 cases are being found in B.C.Provincial medical health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says four or five employ...
Jun 18, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Summit pedestrian overpass proposal hasn’t improved with age
KAMLOOPS - TUCKED AWAY IN A MOTION to add several capital project allocations back into the City's five-year financial plan yesterday was a brief mention of the Summit overpass.One of the expenditures...
Jun 17, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Firing RCMP commissioner would only make things worse
KAMLOOPS -A CALL FOR THE FIRING or resignation of RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki demonstrates how a good cause can get off-track when it over reaches.Senator Lillian Dyck said Monday she wants Lucki o...
Jun 16, 2020
GINTA: Let’s fall in love with our province this summer — and be reminded that we need to protect it
I'LL START WITH A CONFESSION: I have never been to a tropical place for a vacation. Maybe I will one day, but I'm not in a hurry. It's not that I don't like white sandy beaches, luscious green forests...
Jun 15, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Community should have a say in memorial to Capt. Jenn Casey
KAMLOOPS - A MEMORIAL FOR CAPT. JENNIFER CASEY will be discussed by Kamloops City council and that's good news. The only thing missing so far is any consideration of input from the public.Mayor Ken Ch...
Jun 15, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Defunding police wouldn’t cure what ails them
BEING A COP these days must be a demoralizing job.You train to protect people, and each day on the job you try to do that. It's dangerous work. These days, though, you're accused of hurting people ins...
Jun 13, 2020
PETERS: We must attack the opioid crisis and COVID-19 with the same urgency
One-hundred sixty-seven PEOPLE HAVE DIED OF COVID-19 in BC. Total. One-hundred seventy people died of illicit drug overdoses in BC just last month. COVID-19 and the opioid crisis have more in common t...
Jun 12, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Save taxpayers millions, put MPs’ ’10 percenters’ online
KAMLOOPS - THE LATEST EDITION of the 10 percenter newsletter arrived in my mailbox the other day.It includes a message from Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod, information about COVID-19 suppor...
Jun 11, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Feds dropped the ball by giving CERB fraudsters an open field
KAMLOOPS - THE ONLY THING WRONG with the plan to go after Canada Emergency Response Benefit fraudsters is that it didn't come soon enough.When the federal bailout programs were announced as the COVID-...
Jun 10, 2020
