Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Does Justin Trudeau ever think about how something looks to others?
KAMLOOPS - A BIG PART OF LEADERSHIP is setting a good example.Prime Minister Justin Trudeau failed to do that on the Easter long weekend as he said one thing, then did something else.While the rest of...
Apr 16, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: We should be very angry about COVID-19 deaths in long-term care
KAMLOOPS -IT'S A HEART-BREAKING IRONY that the ones we were supposed to protect the most from COVID-19 are the ones who have been hurt the worst.Day by day, the deaths rise in long-term care homes acr...
Apr 15, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Even as we stay home, we’ll find ways to start wildfires
KAMLOOPS - THIS SHOULD BE AN EASY wildfire season compared to those of the past.Why? Because more than half - 54 per cent to be exact - of all wildfires in B.C. last year were caused by humans.So, wit...
Apr 14, 2020 CFJC Today- File Photo
GINTA: Being kind is always the better option
MANY YEARS AGO, I found this piece of driftwood - a plank just wide enough and long enough to write a short something on, and that something was one of my favourite quotes by the Dalai Lama and a prin...
Apr 13, 2020 Image Credit: Photoking / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER – Chamber takes simplistic approach to getting people back to work
KAMLOOPS - A PROPOSAL BY THE KAMLOOPS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE that the City scrap any thoughts of cutting back on major infrastructure projects would seem to go against all measures of common sense.The ch...
Apr 13, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Cabin fever is turning ‘calm and kind’ into snarky and jealous
CABIN FEVER HAS SET IN as we sit chafing at home this long weekend and it's yielding some unattractive results.Despite all the friendly, kind and caring advice to each other in earlier weeks on how to...
Apr 11, 2020 Image credit: Miroslava Chrienova, Pixabay.
CHARBONNEAU: Some still feel COVID-19 is a hoax
THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH OF COVID-19 is that it's going to kill millions. That reality is slowly dawning on a majority of Canadians as the virus moves closer to home. However a small minority see it as ...
Apr 09, 2020 Image Credit: Nunataki / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Prof. Mel’s quick guide to the language of COVID-19
KAMLOOPS - WE'RE LEARNING A WHOLE NEW LINGO during this COVID-19 pandemic.Some of it is evolving. For example, what began as a need to "flatten the curve" has become a goal to "plank the curve."That c...
Apr 09, 2020 Image Credit: Lecturio
ROTHENBURGER: Democracy by videoconference – ‘Can you hear me now?’
KAMLOOPS - DEMOCRACY IS A FRAGILE THING, a fact being demonstrated during this COVID-19 pandemic.Governments at all levels - federal, provincial and local - struggle with how much information to trust...
Apr 08, 2020 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
ROTHENBURGER: To wear a mask, or to not wear a mask – that is the question
KAMLOOPS - SO, SHOULD WE WEAR MASKS, or not?Early on in the pandemic, we were told not to bother wearing a mask unless we were sick. A mask might help stop us from spreading the virus, but would be of...
Apr 07, 2020 Image Credit: CDC-USA
