Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Yes, Virginia, there is a pandemic; it’s not just media hype
KAMLOOPS - 'THE HONEYMOON PHASE' is an odd way to describe what's going on with COVID-19 right now but it describes the public's attitude to the healthcare experts who are trying to get us through it....
Mar 19, 2020 Image Credit: Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Time to take the wraps off the secret Wet’suwet’en deal
HOME - IF YOU GOOGLE WET'SUWET'EN these days, most of what pops up is two weeks old.The country has, at least temporarily, forgotten about the national economic crisis threatened by road, port and rai...
Mar 18, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Postponing PAC referendum the smart thing to do
KAMLOOPS - POSTPONING THE REFERENDUM on a new performing arts centre is the only logical thing to do.At this writing, the City of Kamloops is taking a serious look at that in view of COVID-19.Mayor Ke...
Mar 17, 2020 Image Credit: Contributed
GINTA: Everyone must do their part to help flatten the curve
IT HAPPENED TWO DAYS AGO in a local store: the person in front of me bought $300 worth of hand sanitizer. Here we are, increasingly engulfed by the reality that is the COVID-19 pandemic. It is happeni...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: Sergunt / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: To the guy who ignored the soap and water in public washroom
KAMLOOPS - IT'S BECOME CLEAR that the answers to COVID-19 are relatively simple, if only we can bring ourselves to do it. While we wait for a vaccine, social distancing has gone into high gear.The qua...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: WHO
ROTHENBURGER: We must unite against COVID-19 – from a distance
WHAT ARE THE THREE main symptoms of coronavirus?Answer: Sore throat, fever and an irrational urge to buy toilet paper.Why should we stay away from Kelowna?Answer: Kelowna virus.A little humour is usef...
Mar 14, 2020 (Image courtesy of Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: Dr. Bonnie Henry is putting on a clinic in leadership
DR. BONNIE HENRY DIDN'T ASK FOR THIS.Henry was appointed the successor to Dr. Perry Kendall as the provincial health officer on February 1, 2018.It was right into the storm of the opioid overdose cris...
Mar 13, 2020 Image Credit: Global News
CHARBONNEAU: Coronavirus gives the virus family a bad name
MOST VIRUSES AND BENIGN and some are even lifesaving. Only a few cause panic and fear.We are literally immersed in viruses. A UBC professor has discovered that billions of them rain down on us daily. ...
Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: Konstantinos A / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER – When are we going to do something about the rat invasion?
KAMLOOPS - 'WHEN ARE YOU gonna do something on the rats?" I was asked in the coffee shop this week.I guess they're getting pretty bad. It was a timely question, because in the next couple of weeks, Or...
Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: Orkin
ROTHENBURGER: Time to dust off our zipper-merge driving skills again
KAMLOOPS - HOW SOON WE FORGET.After a short winter break, work on Victoria Street West is heading into the final stages, with completion expected in May.It's been a long haul and it will be a relief f...
Mar 11, 2020 Contributed
