Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Just for you, a straight-forward explanation of the City’s tax deadlines
KAMLOOPS- YOU'VE BEEN HAVING TROUBLE figuring out the new City of Kamloops tax-payment deadlines, right?You're not alone; the city has tried to explain it several times and failed, so I'll give it a w...
May 04, 2020 CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: At long last, tide is turning toward sensible gun laws in Canada
TWO VERY IMPORTANT THINGS happened on the gun law front Friday that lead me to think we might finally be making some progress, albeit imperfectly.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau held his daily news conf...
May 02, 2020 Prime Minister Trudeau, Deputy Prime Minister Freeland, Minister Blair, Minister Lametti and MP Joel Lightbound make an announcement regarding gun control in Canada. (Image Credit: Government of Canada / PMO)
PETERS: Restrictions imposed by government have left our world in a terrible place — but the alternative is much worse
FRIDAY'S ANNOUNCEMENT of a ban on the trade of military-style weaponry presented an interesting dichotomy with some of the images coming out of the United States.A protest against government-imposed C...
May 01, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CHARBONNEAU: Ageism contributes to poor care in long-term facilities
THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC has made it clear the disparity of care for residents in long-term care compared to that in hospitals. An indicator of that disparity is the fact that 80 per cent of COVID-19 dea...
Apr 30, 2020 Image Credit: Tania Van den Berghen
ROTHENBURGER: $150-million bailout for Canadian Football League? No thanks
KAMLOOPS - SHOULD WE GIVE the Canadian Football League a $150-million handout?In the words of Al Borland, "I don't think so, Tim."The CFL, which seems to go through a crisis every few years, is going ...
Apr 30, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Heckle-free virtual session of House disconcerting but welcome
KAMLOOPS - TUESDAY'S VIRTUAL SESSION of Parliament was a fascinating exercise.Technically, it was a meeting of the "Special Committee on the COVID-19 Pandemic," and, technically, it wasn't Question Pe...
Apr 29, 2020 House feed
ROTHENBURGER: Were Portapique murders a case of ‘white male terrorism’?
KAMLOOPS - WHENEVER A BAD THING seems "senseless," we want to make sense of it.So, we're all still trying to fathom why a man would dress up as an RCMP officer and drive around in a fake police car ki...
Apr 28, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: Wildlife should not pay the ultimate price during the pandemic
DO YOU REMEMBER the first couple of weeks of COVID-19 and the toilet paper shortage? Then came the flour and other dry supplies, followed by yeast. Next came the seed shortage. Suppliers in town could...
Apr 27, 2020 Image Credit: Jacqueline Macou
ROTHENBURGER – Time to end closures and let us have a walk in the park again
KAMLOOPS - THE TIME HAS COME to reopen B.C.'s provincial parks.Not because we should be jumping the gun on ending the anti-pandemic battle but because closing them isn't working.More than a thousand p...
Apr 27, 2020 Image Credit: B.C. Parks-Facebook
ROTHENBURGER: Reluctant council gives Heritage Society reprieve at St. Andrew’s
MEANWHILE, OVER AT ST. ANDREW'S, there are developments.You will recall there was a major public outcry a few months ago over the City's inexplicable determination to give the Kamloops Heritage Societ...
Apr 25, 2020 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
