Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER – Scrap the new trail and build more sidewalks instead
KAMLOOPS - SIDEWALKS ARE NOTHING MORE than long strips of concrete but they play a tremendously important role in the health of a city.I thought about that when City Hall released its annual Citizen S...
Feb 13, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER – Illegal anti-pipeline protests run risk of stirring up racism
KAMLOOPS - THE THRONE SPEECH yesterday was more than a nothing burger - to borrow from a trend in meat-like products these days, it was a beyond-nothing burger.Doesn't matter; it was over-shadowed by ...
Feb 12, 2020 Contributed
ROTHENBURGER – We’re living in a skip-the-restaurants kind of world
KAMLOOPS - THE RESTAURANT BUSINESS has got to be one of the toughest lines of work to get into, and it doesn't look like it's getting any easier.They seem to be dropping like flies - Milestones, Monta...
Feb 11, 2020 Image Credit: skipthedishes.com
GINTA: Online food shopping — what might get lost in the process
GI REMEMBER GOING GROCERY SHOPPING with my parents. Okay, let's call it tagging along. We'd go to the farmer's market where the chance of getting samples from smiling vendors was mighty high, and then...
Feb 10, 2020 Image Credit: Miss604
ROTHENBURGER: No-fault auto insurance plan a political winner for NDP
KAMLOOPS - NO-FAULT AUTO INSURANCE looks like it's going to be a winner for John Horgan and David Eby.After discounting the idea of no-fault insurance early on, the NDP government plans to introduce w...
Feb 10, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER – The time has come to put away anti-pipeline protests
AT WHAT POINT IS IT TIME to stop protesting and accept reality? I have the feeling that even after the last length of pipe of the Trans Mountain expansion is in the ground, somebody will be out there ...
Feb 08, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
PETERS: Some grace is in order for Carson Hadwin
IT HAS BEEN BOTH SAD AND FASCINATING to see people contort themselves into different pretzels, trying to find the most cynical angle to this week's story of a boy getting lost at Sun Peaks.Carson Hadw...
Feb 07, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Keeping our heads is easier said than done on coronavirus
KAMLOOPS - I SAW A SIGN in a local drug store this week that made me realize no matter how much authorities reassure us, the coronavirus scare is everywhere.The sign said simply that there are no mask...
Feb 06, 2020
ROTHENBURGER – Donald Trump’s second term as president kicks in today
KAMLOOPS - THE AMERICAN BULLY is let off the impeachment hook today, the day after he spent an hour and a half bragging about himself in the annual State of the Union speech. And, as has become our ha...
Feb 05, 2020 Image Credit: Contributed
ROTHENBURGER: Why prime ministers shouldn’t have to be fluent in French
KAMLOOPS - SO FAR, PETER MACKAY'S FRENCH is the biggest issue to come up in the federal Conservative leadership "race." Thank goodness there's something to add interest to this snoozer.As far as I can...
Feb 04, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
