Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: City hands pink slip to another volunteer heritage group
ANOTHER HERITAGE GROUP is being given its walking papers by City Hall. That makes three. Three strikes and you're out, in effect.The circumstances are all somewhat different, but the result is the sam...
Oct 05, 2019 St. Andrews (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: #Elxn43 has been all smear and no substance - but there is still time to save it
JOSHUA KNAAK TWEETED THIS WEEK that this might be the worst election in Canadian history - and he might not be wrong.It has been vapid and vaccuous, lacking both intelligence and substance.The rhetori...
Oct 04, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CHARBONNEAU: Artists struggle to make a living wage in internet era
GONE ARE THE DAYS when the path to success was fairly direct for musicians. Graham Henderson, president of Music Canada recalls the way it used to be:"In 1999, if you've got a record deal, and there w...
Oct 03, 2019 Image Credit: Madison Olds
ROTHENBURGER: Can party leaders please stop treating us like idiots?
KAMLOOPS - I LOVE FEDERAL ELECTIONS because they're the ultimate expression of our democracy. Besides, I'm a political junkie.There are things about it that annoy me, though - especially coming from t...
Oct 03, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Giving City councils control over handguns a very bad idea
KAMLOOPS - JUSTIN TRUDEAU IS HALF RIGHT with his campaign promise on gun control.The Liberal leader says, if re-elected, he'll give municipalities the authority to ban handguns and will impose a natio...
Oct 02, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Hint of Ajax being back on the table is unwelcome news
KAMLOOPS - JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT we were rid of Ajax, it's back. Maybe.Yes, Abacus Mining, a minority owner in the proposed open-pit copper and gold mine just south of the Kamloops city limits, says th...
Oct 01, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
GINTA: We can save ourselves from being buried in our own waste
IT'S AN UNFORTUNATE HUMAN-SPECIFIC ATTRIBUTE that many of us do not adopt change unless some catastrophic events ensue. It is good times we are living in, defined by abundance and shall we say, excess...
Sep 30, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Horgan needs to listen to message sent by truck loggers
KAMLOOPS - I HAPPENED TO BE IN VANCOUVER when the convoy of logging trucks rolled through town blasting their horns to the cheers of thousands who lined the streets under the sky scrapers.I confess I ...
Sep 30, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: The argument for giving 16-year-olds the vote gets more convincing
THE DAY MIGHT NOT BE far off when 16-year-old Canadian kids will be trekking to the voting booth - or voting online - to have their say in elections.What was considered a hair-brained idea up to a cou...
Sep 28, 2019 (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
PETERS: One day, we shall defeat the man cold
I HAVE A COLD, and because I'm a man, it's a man cold, and because it's a man cold, it's one-thousand times worse than any illness ever contracted in history.The aches and pains are more acute, the ma...
Sep 27, 2019 Image Credit: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
