Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Get used to being watched while you shop
I WALKED INTO WALMART the other day.As I passed the greeter at the door, I saw a staff member directing traffic in the checkout zone, asking shoppers if they wanted a cashier, express lane or self-ser...
Aug 24, 2019 (The Armchair Mayor takes a picture of himself having his picture taken)
CHARBONNEAU: Lessons from the Little Ice Age
CLIMATE CHANGE WILL CHALLENGE our ability to survive and our world view. Business as usual will not be an option.Our survival skills are already being tested in Europe. In 2003, heat killed at least 3...
Aug 23, 2019
PETERS: Let's stop calling Kamloops Pride a 'special interest group'
WHEN THE IDEA OF FUNDING A RAINBOW CROSSWALK came forward to Kamloops council a couple of weeks back, it was unanimously supported by those around the table. But before they voted yes, several council...
Aug 23, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Saga of wandering bear family provides teachable moment
KAMLOOPS - AT THIS WRITING, the fate of the mother bear and her two cubs wandering around Kamloops is uncertain. Hopefully, they've found their way back into the mountains.It's entirely possible, of c...
Aug 22, 2019 Image Credit: Wildsafe B.C. (Facebook)
ROTHENBURGER: Elections Canada shouldn’t decide who has a say on climate change
KAMLOOPS - IT APPEARS A CHILL has set in on the most important issue of our time after the strange warning from Elections Canada that came to light this week. Some environmental groups are expressing ...
Aug 21, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: A little less rehabilitation and a lot more punishment
THERE'S SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG with our drunk driving laws. The man who ran a red light and slammed into the marked cruiser of a Langford, B.C. RCMP constable, killing her, has been granted a six-m...
Aug 20, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: There is room for improvement in road safety
IT MAKES ME THINK OF A GAME OF PEEK-A-BOO every time I see it. A police officer with a radar gun hides behind a tree or an object big enough to hide his or her presence. If you ask me, that's money we...
Aug 19, 2019 Image Credit: Bundit Chailaipanich / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Cause for hope in opioid stats but not suicides
KAMLOOPS - STATISTICS ARE IMPERSONAL but they tell stories. Sometimes they're cold and cruel, sometimes hopeful.Three recent reports from the B.C. Coroners Service illustrate this reality. One, releas...
Aug 19, 2019 Submitted
ROTHENBURGER: Ditch current plans for Stuart Wood and make it a school again
THE MORE I THINK ABOUT IT, the more I think a big mistake is being made with Stuart Wood school.As the painfully long process drags on sorting out control of the property, there's time to reflect. The...
Aug 17, 2019 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: Politics as usual from Trudeau may keep undecided voters away from the polls
AUGUST 14 WAS CHRISTMAS MORNING for Andrew Scheer and the federal Conservatives - and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion was playing the part of Santa. Two months ahead of the federal election, Scheer got...
Aug 16, 2019
