Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: A city’s history of failure in dealing with its parking problem
FOR A CITY SO CODEPENDENT on automobiles, Kamloops has a strange aversion to figuring out where to park them.When my grandfather bought one of Kamloops' first motorized vehicles (it was a Chevrolet Ba...
Nov 16, 2019 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: Province turns to a tried and true method to curb youth vaping — a sin tax
ONE OF THE VANGUARDS of public policy is that if you don't want the public to do something, you tax it.That's why it was no surprise to see a big tax hike to vaping products as part of the province's ...
Nov 15, 2019 Image Credit: Yurenia85 / Dreamstime.com
CHARBONNEAU: One time — Standard Time
B.C. PREMIER JOHN HORGAN has a good idea in getting rid of the semi-annual upset of our biological rhythms by switching clocks back and forth. Horgan has a bad idea in proposing that we should be on D...
Nov 14, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Downtown mural program needs to hit the reset button
KAMLOOPS - HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWEST MURAL in downtown Kamloops?I got a look at it and I'm not impressed. In the past, I've been critical of a lot of public art, and complimentary to quite a bit as wel...
Nov 14, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Cellphone addiction in schools needs to be broken
KAMLOOPS - A BAN ON CELLPHONES IN SCHOOLS has gone into effect in Ontario. Good for Ontario.Many educators defend allowing students the use of cellphones because they say it's a good educational tool....
Nov 13, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Don Cherry was right about one thing in his poppy rant
KAMLOOPS - THERE WAS ANOTHER HUGE TURNOUT for the annual Remembrance Day ceremonies at Riverside Park on Monday as we joined Canadians across the country in honouring those who protected us and contin...
Nov 12, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: Gratefulness comes from knowing the price of peace and freedom
KAMLOOPS - It was loud. And it was crowded, way more people than last year. For once, I got there early enough to stand in line, get tickets and go inside with time to spare. Once in, I looked around ...
Nov 12, 2019 Image Credit: Daniela Ginta
ROTHENBURGER: Are the 2015 and 2020 PAC plans really ‘totally different’?
'THIS ONE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.'You've probably heard that line more than once from proponents of the new performing arts centre proposal, and you'll most certainly hear it again, many times.Those who...
Nov 09, 2019 Artists renderings of 2020 (top) and 2015 (bottom) PAC proposals
PETERS: Unlike 2015, the parking issue has not been front and centre in this year's Performing Arts Centre debate
MEMORIES ARE SHORT, but during the upcoming debate over the performing arts centre, it is important to remember back to 2015. The context this time around is vastly different, and one of the prime rea...
Nov 08, 2019 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
CHARBONNEAU: My Segway is not a mongrel
TERRANCE WOJTKIW WAS TICKETED as he rode his "e-bike" on a road in Saanich, B.C. It would have been a legal e-bike if it was limited to a speed of 32 km/hr and could be pedalled but he was going 48 km...
Nov 07, 2019 Image Credit: Tomas Hajek / Dreamstime.com
