Category Archives: Column
CHARBONNEAU: The bomb is back
AS I WATCHED THE BOMB (Netflix), I couldn't help but think of a line from Leonard Cohen: "I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons/First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin." The beautiful mushroom-...
Aug 15, 2019 Image Credit: Alla Leonova / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Bernier should be included in federal leaders’ debates
KAMLOOPS - THE PEOPLE'S PARTY OF CANADA and its leader Maxime Bernier aren't every Canadian's cup of tea, and I'm one of them.But he should be heard.The federal Leaders' Debates Commission has decided...
Aug 15, 2019 Image Credit- The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Rainbow crosswalk is for the rest of us, too
KAMLOOPS - SINCE I WAS LESS than complimentary about City council's dithering on the rainbow crosswalk, it's only fitting that I comment on the solution arrived at by staff.In short, administration of...
Aug 14, 2019 Image Credit: City of Kamloops
ROTHENBURGER: NDP’s local woes reflect those of the party federally
KAMLOOPS - OH, HOW FAR they have fallen.The recent resignation of Gina Myhill-Jones as the NDP candidate in Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo is symbolic of the general state of the New Democrats' fortunes in...
Aug 13, 2019 Image Credit: NDP
GINTA: When compassion and accountability are missing, the consequences can be deadly
LAST WEEK ON WEDNESDAY EVENING, a 14-year-old lost his life to a suspected overdose. Carson Crimeni was alone as he struggled to stay alive, after being surrounded by a crowd of teenagers, some of who...
Aug 12, 2019 Carson Crimeni (Image Credit: GoFundMe)
ROTHENBURGER: Kudos to those who build things up instead of tear them down
KAMLOOPS - IT'S SOMETIMES SAID there are two kinds of people in every community - those who tear things down and those who build things up.We certainly have our share of the first kind but, fortunatel...
Aug 12, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Tday-Kent Simmonds
ROTHENBURGER: The battle begins to get rid of one-way streets downtown
WHEN I ASKED Coun. Denis Walsh on last week's segment of CFJC-TV's Balance of Power what single thing he'd fix about downtown Kamloops if he could, I was surprised at his answer.I expected him to talk...
Aug 10, 2019 (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
CHARBONNEAU: Satellites make good neighbours
A LOT OF fuss is being made of the Apollo 11 landing of a man on the moon one-half century ago but not so much about Canada's launch of the Alouette 1 at the same time. Canada was a leader in space -t...
Aug 08, 2019 Image Credit: NOAASatellites
ROTHENBURGER: There will be no closure in case of northern B.C. highway murders
KAMLOOPS - THERE WILL BE NO CLOSURE in the strange, sad, tragic case of the two B.C. teenagers suspected in the killings of three travellers in two different incidents in northern B.C.In a curiously w...
Aug 08, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Y needs support, not groundless accusations over cuts
KAMLOOPS - IF ONLY PEOPLE WOULD think before they speak.Some of the vitriol directed towards the Kamloops Community Y and especially to its executive director Colin Reid since the announcement of cutb...
Aug 07, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
