Category Archives: Column
PETERS: When we were great
THREE MEMORIAL CUPS IN FOUR YEARS will never be accomplished again.In fact, it was entirely unlikely that it could happen even once.There are 60 teams from across Canada and parts of the United States...
Feb 21, 2020 Image Credit: Kamloops Blazers
CHARBONNEAU: The Kamloops rental shortage is no accident
THE SHORTAGE OF AFFORDABLE RENTAL UNITS in Kamloops is the result of deliberate government policy starting with the Mulroney Conservatives in the 1990s. Not just Kamloops but all Canada was affected.G...
Feb 20, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Slapping PST on pop may be a tax grab but it’s a good one
KAMLOOPS - IT ISN'T THE MOST innovative move in the B.C. budget but slapping a tax on soft drinks is one of the most intriguing.Is it a tax grab? Well, yes, in part. Putting even the standard PST on f...
Feb 20, 2020 Image Credit: pixabay.com
ROTHENBURGER: As the winter muck recedes, the rainbow crosswalk emerges
AN INTERESTING SIGHT is emerging from the winter snow between the Kamloops Museum and St. Andrew's on the Square.It still has a coat of dirt from the past few months of weather, but soon the rainbow c...
Feb 19, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Forcibly end blockades if necessary, but saving face is better option
PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU today tried to calm the waters in the Coastal GasLink dispute, while Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer tried to stir them up.In a debate in the House, Trudeau talked of f...
Feb 18, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: We need driving laws that protect pedestrians first
A WHILE BACK I read a book that was as poignant as it was scary. It is called A Deadly Wandering: A Tale of Tragedy and Redemption in the Age of Attention, by Matt Richtel. I mentioned it at the time ...
Feb 18, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER – Will B.C.’s new budget be as uninspiring as the Throne Speech?
KAMLOOPS - LET'S HOPE THE B.C. budget being unveiled by Finance Minister Carole James on Tuesday has more substance than last week's Throne Speech.Traditionally, the Throne Speech provides only a gene...
Feb 18, 2020 Image Credit: Global News
ROTHENBURGER – How PAC 2.0 has made downtown parking problems vanish
THE MESSAGING ON the PAC parking issue continues to impress.After years of studies, delegations and failed attempts to build parkades, parking in downtown Kamloops is suddenly no longer a problem.This...
Feb 15, 2020 Byron McCorkell speaks to a public information meeting this week. (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: This land is their land
AS I HAVE READ about the dispute over Wet'suwet'en land and the Coastal GasLink pipeline, I have had quite a hard time coming to some conclusions in my own mind.As one individual hundreds of kilometre...
Feb 14, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CHARBONNEAU: Rona Ambrose — the best leader the Conservatives never had
FOR SOMEONE WHO HAS BEEN OUT of federal politics since 2017 and has no intentions for running for leader of the Conservative Party, Rona Ambrose remains popular. Even the minority Liberal government l...
Feb 13, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
