Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Gut instinct might still be the best election poll of all
WHILE THE REST OF US make election predictions based on the science of gut instinct, idle speculation and wishful thinking, there are actual experts at work using more sophisticated means.They're call...
Oct 12, 2019 John DeCicco, back in the days of the famous Barbershop Poll. (Image: Mel Rothenburger file photo)
PETERS: Frustrating traffic days are the exception to the rule in Kamloops
ON WEDNESDAY, it was an overturned lumber truck.The incident happened at almost the worst possible location - where Battle Street, Columbia Street, Valleyview Drive and the Yellowhead Highway all come...
Oct 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER – An update on the St. Andrew’s on the Square disagreement
KAMLOOPS -I HAD A LONG CONVERSATION wEDNESDAY (Oct. 9, 2019) with Byron McCorkell, the City's Community and Protective Services director, about St. Andrew's on the Square.I worked with Byron at City H...
Oct 11, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: An update on the St. Andrew’s on the Square disagreement
I HAD A LONG CONVERSATION yesterday (Oct. 9, 2019) with Byron McCorkell, the City's Community and Protective Services director, about St. Andrew's on the Square.I worked with Byron at City Hall for al...
Oct 10, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
CHARBONNEAU: Meat is bad for you. Wait, it’s okay
CONTRARY TO DECADES OF WORK, researchers from Dalhousie and McMaster Universities recently found that red meat, including bacon, is not harmful. It wasn't a new study but rather a "study of studies," ...
Oct 10, 2019 Image Credit: Alju21 / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Those who enable unfit drivers should be equally liable
KAMLOOPS - A SAD COURT CASE in the Kootenays highlights the issue of drivers who continue to get behind the wheel when they have no business doing so.An 86-year-old man in Trail has been convicted of ...
Oct 10, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Forum proves we need a debate between Lake, McLeod and Currie
KAMLOOPS - FEDERAL ELECTION FORUMS at the local level aren't of much value when it comes to party policies because we've heard it all before from the leaders. What is worthwhile about them is seeing h...
Oct 09, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Leaders’ debate zingers like déjà vu all over again
KAMLOOPS - DURING THE B.C. ELECTION LEADERS DEBATE of 1991, NDP leader Mike Harcourt and Social Credit leader Rita Johnson were going at each other hammer and tongs.A young Gordon Wilson, leader of th...
Oct 08, 2019 Image Credit: CPAC
GINTA: Food studies versus reality and common sense
YOU CAN SAFELY FILE IT under 'Another day, another food study.' Followed by... now what?Case in point: the recent meat-centered study coming from Dalhousie and McMaster Universities, which concluded t...
Oct 07, 2019 Image Credit: Yurasova / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Election-sign vandals should pay a heavy penalty if they’re caught
KAMLOOPS - IT SHOULD COME AS NO SURPRISE that election signs are being vandalized. It happens pretty much every election.Usually, signs are knocked over and even stolen. Any sign that uses plywood for...
Oct 07, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
