Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Frootloops council looks ahead to a brand new decade
FROOTLOOPS COUNCIL gathers for its last meeting of the decade. His Wordship Mayor Ken Kringle bangs his gavel.MAYOR KRINGLE: I call the meeting to order. May I first acknowledge that we're in the hist...
Dec 21, 2019 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: Parkcrest fire report raises a new set of important questions
HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW about the fire that destroyed Parkcrest Elementary School in September: The fire started in the space between the drop ceiling and the roof, and while firefighters can't pinpoint a...
Dec 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
CHARBONNEAU: The supervolcano next door
THE HORRIFIC DEATHS of 16 tourists on White Island, New Zealand, are a reminder of the lethal force of volcanoes. Lillani Hopkins, a 22-year-old student, witnessed the eruption. She was on a boat leav...
Dec 19, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Shutting down pipeline through Westsyde raises environmental issues
KAMLOOPS - A REVIEW OF HISTORY is in order on a proposal to shut down the Trans Mountain pipeline through Westsyde.Coun. Denis Walsh submitted a Hail Mary notice of motion to Tuesday's City council me...
Dec 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Paying ransom to LifeLabs hackers might encourage further attacks
LIFELABS REVEALED YESTERDAY that information on 15 million customers was hacked in late October, mostly in Ontario and B.C.Given the massive number of files, it's safe to say thousands of them probabl...
Dec 18, 2019 Image Credit: Global National
ROTHENBURGER: Only the young can save the planet, and it might be too late
THE GENERATION GAP is surely no more obvious than on the issue of climate change.The only ones getting serious about it are young people, while the adults in power fiddle. Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-...
Dec 17, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: The things the Christmas train brings about
SO THIS IS HOW I STARTED writing my column for this week, because of this upsetting and about to get uglier issue... Here we are again, on the cusp of having new vaping products released for public co...
Dec 16, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Jody Wilson-Raybould needs to move on and move out
THE PERKS OF PUBLIC OFFICE are tough for politicians to give up when they're no longer in the job. When once they were somebody, now they're nobody special.That seems to be the case with Jody Wilson-R...
Dec 16, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Tank the cat, and other stories of Kamloops’ generosity
IS IT ANY SURPRISE that Kamloops is the most generous city in Canada?According to GoFundMe, Tournament Capital residents gave more per capita through the fundraising platform this past year than any o...
Dec 14, 2019 Tank the cat (Image Credit: Facebook)
PETERS: Will Andrew Scheer be the last social conservative to lead the Conservative Party?
ANDREW SCHEER'S RESIGNATION this week was a bombshell that even his caucus didn't expect.If he was going to resign, the logical time would have been sooner after the election.The information coming to...
Dec 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
