Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Thank you to those among us willing to stand and be counted
KAMLOOPS - IT'S ELECTION DAY IN CANADA and we're taking part in one of the most important things we can do as citizens.On this day, let's take a moment to thank those who are making it all possible - ...
Oct 21, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Don’t worry about the turnout, think first, then vote
FIRST THING MONDAY MORNING, I'm going to get up and drive to my designated polling station. It's a small polling station; very few people vote there so it likely won't be crowded.It will take only a f...
Oct 19, 2019 (Image Credit: Kent Simmonds)
PETERS: Hold your nose and vote
IF YOU LISTEN LONG ENOUGH, all political campaigns tend to return to the same set of talking points.One of the most commonly used is that this is the most important election of our lifetime.Rationale ...
Oct 18, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Coalition government is a possibility, but an unlikely one
KAMLOOPS - IN THESE WANING DAYS of the federal election campaign, a new issue is suddenly top of mind.It's not climate change, or the economy, or immigration. It's the prospect of a coalition governme...
Oct 18, 2019 Image Credit: CPAC
CHARBONNEAU: Baby boomers' long-term care goes bust
THE LONG-TERM CARE OF BOOMERS is an unfunded liability. Unlike the Canadian Pension Plan and Old Age Security, the longterm care of boomers is not funded at all. Our health care is not prepared to rec...
Oct 17, 2019 Berwick on the Park (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
ROTHENBURGER: We love to hate election mudslinging, but it works
KAMLOOPS - AT LEAST ONE PREDICTION was absolutely correct about federal election 2019 - it's been a nasty one.We used to think of negative campaigning in terms of attack advertising but modern media h...
Oct 17, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: KCBIA needed to use KISS principle in election survey
KAMLOOPS - THE KAMLOOPS CENTRAL BIA released its election questionnaire Tuesday and it's pretty typical of the dozens of special-interest surveys candidates are asked to respond to during campaigns.Li...
Oct 16, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Modern version of advance voting does no good for democracy
KAMLOOPS - VOTING IS WELL UNDERWAY in the federal election, thanks to four days of advance voting over the long weekend.Turnout in the advance vote was trending higher than in 2015, which means well o...
Oct 15, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
GINTA: The two questions we ought to find better answers for
A week ago, on Monday, kids and teenagers all over Canada went to school in the morning and returned home after school ended. All except one. Devan Bracci-Selvey, a 14-year-old from Hamilton, was stab...
Oct 13, 2019 (Image Credit: The Canadian Press)
LEGASSIC: Can we finally start voting for who we actually want to represent us?
I THINK THIS MAY be the year that young people toss the idea of "strategic voting" out the window, and it's long overdue. The last - and only time - either the Conservatives or Liberals didn't have po...
Oct 13, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
