Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Who knew grocery-store cashiers would become an essential service?
AS I SIT HERE pouting in self isolation, I'm cheered, even inspired, by the heroes of the pandemic.We always think of doctors and nurses as the heroes, and they certainly are, but the unsung ones are ...
Mar 28, 2020 Floor marks and plexiglass shield at Save-On-Foods. (Image Credit: Facebook, Save-On-Foods)
PETERS: The numbers don't matter anymore
THE PACE OF THE COVID-19 story's scope and evolution has been unprecedented in the news business.Everything changes, every day.And so, it is a little less surprising that the reception to provincial h...
Mar 27, 2020 Image Credit: Flickr / Government of B.C.
CHARBONNEAU: Coronavirus as news
THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC IS A FACT. It is also news.The difference between facts and "the news" is that facts don't always become news, not because those facts aren't consequential but because the new...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: Flickr / Government of B.C.
ROTHENBURGER: The importance of golf, and other games, in the COVID-19 crisis
KAMLOOPS- THE CLOSING OF GOLF COURSES has got me wondering if there's a point at which our determination to escape the COVID-19 virus becomes overly enthusiastic.That might surprise you given my comme...
Mar 26, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER – Stop the COVIDIOTS, invoke the Emergency Measures Act
KAMLOOPS - IT'S SIMPLY ASTOUNDING that so many people continue to congregate in large numbers as though COVID-19 is some sort of a lark.It needs to be said that many, many people - hopefully, most - a...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER – Canada wins Gold for pulling out of doomed 2020 Olympics
KAMLOOPS - THERE'S NO MORE EXCITING SPORTING EVENT than the Olympic Games. For two weeks, the very best athletes in the world compete against each other, and millions sit glued to their TV sets, joini...
Mar 24, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Why we must be told where COVID-19 is showing up
KAMLOOPS - THE SECRECY AROUND where COVID-19 cases are occurring has to stop.From the beginning of the contagion, B.C. medical health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry has refused to reveal which communities a...
Mar 23, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER – Behind every ‘temporarily closed’ sign is someone’s fragile dream
VICTORIA STREET AT 11 A.M. should be bustling with activity - busy sidewalks, stores and coffee shops, crowded, slow-moving traffic.But not this week, not on this day. At least half the parking stalls...
Mar 21, 2020 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: So you're self-isolated. Now what?
THE SCOURGE OF COVID-19 is now one that has had a direct impact on the lives of absolutely everyone.How often can you say that?While there are some people who are self-isolating because they are sympt...
Mar 20, 2020 Image Credit: motortion / Dreamstime.com
CHARBONNEAU: Coronavirus tests Canada's character
CANADIANS ARE SEEN AS "NICE" PEOPLE, sensible, proud of Canada but not jingoistic, modest, not fanatically religious. The way we respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic will further define who we ar...
Mar 19, 2020
