Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Nothing inherently wrong with allowing businesses in Riverside Park
KAMLOOPS - THE SPECTRE OF BUSINESS in Riverside Park has raised its head again and will undoubtedly raise the hackles of those who think anything that smacks of profit-making must be banned forever.A ...
Mar 10, 2020 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds-CFJC Today
GINTA: Personal responsibility can prevent future tragedies
ON A FATEFUL DAY IN 2012, somewhere on Salt Spring Island, a set of bad decisions ended up changing many people's lives for the worst and ending one. Calder McCormick and Ryan Plambeck, then 17 and 18...
Mar 09, 2020 Jason Apps with his friends after the accident. (Image Credit: Instagram / Jason Apps)
ROTHENBURGER: Panic buying of toilet paper is turning into a real bummer
KAMLOOPS - IF YOU'VE PAID A VISIT to the toilet paper aisle lately, you might have noticed the shelves are sorely depleted.This is a strange consequence of fears surrounding the coronavirus outbreak. ...
Mar 09, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Documents reveal behind-the-scenes tension among City councillors
WHEN CITY COUNCILLORS DISAGREE with each other in public, it's usually pretty benign. They have different opinions during debates at their meetings, for example, but there are seldom open quarrels.Awa...
Mar 07, 2020 (Image credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: 4,000 overdose deaths more than enough cause for drastic action
IT'S ONE OF THE IRONIES of our society that one person's death can trigger a swell of emotion, but 4,000 deaths don't cause a ripple.BC just officially surpassed 4,000 deaths since the province declar...
Mar 06, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
CHARBONNEAU: The language of protest infiltrators
INFILTRATORS OF THE PIPELINE PROEST intend to shut down dialogue and perpetuate the divisions between us.What was once the sole grievance of hereditary chiefs is now a basket in which agitators can th...
Mar 05, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER – If we’re going to do away with the time change, just do it
KAMLOOPS - DON'T FORGET TO SPRING AHEAD on Sunday. Question is whether we'll be falling back a few months from now.British Columbians indicated in a survey last year they would prefer to stay permanen...
Mar 05, 2020 Image Credit: Dreamstime
ROTHENBURGER: Conservatives’ plan to force another election is nuts
KAMLOOPS - ARE YOU READY for another federal election in October?If the three frontrunners in the Conservative leadership contest have their way, that's exactly what will happen. Peter MacKay, Erin O'...
Mar 04, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: We have a right to know where coronavirus cases are found
KAMLOOPS - WE'RE GETTING MIXED MESSAGES from health authorities on the coronavirus, officially now known as COVID-19.On the one hand, we're told we should stock up on enough food, medications and othe...
Mar 03, 2020 Image Credit: Govt. of B.C.
GINTA: Prevention is great; panic is not
IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE to avoid the news about the coronavirus or COVID-19 nowadays. A couple of days ago a red and yellow photo depicting the virus caught my eye. Dramatic indeed. There is a reason ...
Mar 02, 2020
