Category Archives: Column
CHARBONNEAU: Greta Thunberg gets it wrong
I SYMPATHIZE WITH Swedish teen Greta Thunberg for her outrage at the mess that my generation has left the world in. We just wanted to create a culture with every convenience that minimized effort and ...
Jan 16, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Hot dog boss says what many of us have been thinking
KAMLOOPS - WHAT'S WRONG with billionaire business people weighing in on important political matters?Maple Leaf Foods CEO Michael McCain is in hot water for taking to Twitter to blast Donald Trump over...
Jan 16, 2020 Image Credit: Supplied
ROTHENBURGER: Yes, we should be willing to pay for Royal couple’s security
KAMLOOPS - PRINCE HARRY, Meghan and Archie are getting a rather lukewarm response to their plans to move to Canada part-time.The alleged crisis within the Royal Family over their decision has been big...
Jan 15, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Time may have come for paid parking on the North Shore
KAMLOOPS - IS IT TIME for paid parking on the Tranquille Road shopping corridor?Over the years, it's been considered political suicide to even mention the prospect. Free street parking in the corridor...
Jan 14, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
GINTA: What can we understand from the darkest of times?
IT IS HARD TO PUT INTO WORDS the extent of the tragedy that has befallen the families and friends of the 176 people who died in the recent plane crash near Tehran. Worse yet was learning the latest ab...
Jan 13, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: The good, the bad and the tragic of this winter storm
KAMLOOPS - A FEW THOUGHTS on the nasty storm that descended upon us Sunday.The good news is that most people seemed to take it seriously and heed advice to stay home. That wasn't good news for merchan...
Jan 13, 2020 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Crapstorm blowing in City Hall over Westsyde pipeline motion
HERE'S A STRAIGHT-FORWARD question.Supposing, five or 10 years from now, the oil pipeline that runs through Westsyde splits a seam or whatever it is pipelines do when they break, and there's a major l...
Jan 11, 2020 Trans Mountain pipeline marker in Westsyde. (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: Trudeau's beard and muskrats — the importance of the kicker
FOR MILLENNIA, the action of letting their shaving habits lapse has resulted in men growing beards.It is within that context that a news story about a man growing a beard may seem out of place. But he...
Jan 10, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CHARBONNEAU: The whistleblower who got it wrong
ALANA JAMES WAS CONVINCED that she found serious wrongdoings. James, a relatively new B.C. health ministry employee in 2012, was sure that contract researchers hired by the ministry had broken the law...
Jan 09, 2020 Former auditor general John Doyle (Image Credit: Contributed)
ROTHENBURGER: Coast gets the breaks, we get the shaft on assessments
KAMLOOPS - TRUST OUR B.C. NDP GOVERNMENT to turn the annual property assessment lottery into a political issue.And trust them to make it all about the Lower Mainland.Most of us have received our asses...
Jan 09, 2020 Image Credit: Supplied
