Category Archives: Column
GINTA: Dreaming about better days helps us get through the present ones
THE PEOPLE I KNOW are now unequally divided in two groups. The first, by far the largest, is composed of those who take physical distancing to heart and roll with it the best they can, offering people...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: Michal Bednarek / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Message to cheaters: leave hospital parking to those who need it
KAMLOOPS - IT WAS ALMOST INEVITABLE that the free parking now in effect at B.C. hospitals would be abused.It went into effect last Wednesday as a temporary measure during the COVID-19 pandemic and by ...
Apr 06, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: The pandemic will either kill newspapers or save them
THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN of the community newspaper industry has a name - COVID-19. Or, the virus might prove to be its salvation. It could go either way.Several B.C. newspapers have put their surv...
Apr 04, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
PETERS: Rendering scrutiny on our public health officer is a tricky game to play
OUR PROVINCE'S CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER, Dr. Bonnie Henry, is open to scrutiny and critique just like any public official.You wouldn't think that's the case by all the fawning praise she has received for ...
Apr 03, 2020 Image Credit: Province of B.C.
CHARBONNEAU: Life imitates art — the movie 'Contagion'
THE MOVIE CONTAGION (2011) accurately predicted some aspects of the current COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, the movie is meant to be entertaining and has a happy ending. (Spoiler alert: I'm going to rev...
Apr 02, 2020 Image Credit: 8FLiX
ROTHENBURGER: No vote Saturday but let’s keep talking about the arts centre
KAMLOOPS - SATURDAY WAS SUPPOSED TO BE a big day in Kamloops.That's when residents were scheduled to vote on a new performing arts centre. The referendum, of course, was sidelined by COVID-19.But the ...
Apr 02, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Straight talk about what happens to really sick COVID-19 patients
KAMLOOPS - AN ARMCHAIR MAYOR FOLLOWER writes that we need to take a more candid approach to the messaging around COVID-19 to straighten out the skeptics.As we approach a critical time in the war again...
Apr 01, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Thank you, City of Kamloops, now how about a tax deferral?
KAMLOOPS - GOVERNMENTS EVERYWHERE are doing all they can to keep us safe and whole, but what about City council?The Kamloops council is taking every possible measure with social distancing but it's la...
Mar 31, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
GINTA: People in Kamloops care — and that means everything right now
IT WAS ALMOST THREE WEEKS AGO that I last saw Jessie Simpson, my every Sunday afternoon buddy. We parted with him asking, 'What are we going to do next week when you come?' and I answered, 'We'll find...
Mar 30, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: No need to worry about Canadians sneaking into Trumpland
KAMLOOPS - AN OPINION POLL says public confidence in the job our healthcare system is doing on the COVID-19 pandemic has slipped.Not a lot, just a little, which is OK considering the amount of stress ...
Mar 30, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
