Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Blaming video games and mental illness just a sorry excuse
KAMLOOPS - MORE MASS SHOOTINGS, so commonplace nowadays, took a terrible toll on the weekend.There were some gun incidents in Canada but in the U.S., 22 are dead in an El Paso Walmart. Ten dead in Day...
Aug 06, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: We have it so good here
KAMOOPS - There's no other way to put it. Being away from Kamloops for a few days makes it ring true, yet again. It happens mostly when I am stuck in slow traffic as I approach the Mainland. Once you ...
Aug 06, 2019 Image Credit:CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: It’s getting harder to justify illegal pot shops
THIS WEEK'S MARIJUANA RAIDS were a case of dj vu all over again.The law swept down on two illegal cannabis dispensaries, including Canadian Safe Cannabis Services on Tranquille Road. It was the second...
Aug 03, 2019 (Product being seized from Boomer's Bud- July 31, 2019)
ROTHENBURGER: Sale of Trans Mountain pipeline has got to be about business
KAMLOOPS - THERE'S A FASCINATING battle of strategies going on between First Nations groups wanting a piece of the action on the Trans Mountain pipeline.Two of the groups include well-known Kamloops-a...
Aug 01, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Auditor General’s report on drinking water is shocking
KAMLOOPS - A REPORT RELEASED by B.C. Auditor General Carol Bellringer yesterday is an indictment of the provincial government's failure to take the crisis in water quality seriously.The report says th...
Jul 31, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Bonuses for Trans Mountain execs not out of line
KAMLOOPS - SOME SERIOUS BONUSES promised to top Trans Mountain pipeline executives and others have predictably drawn flak.CBC broke a story on the weekend that $5 million in bonuses was approved by th...
Jul 30, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
GINTA: Good food grows close to home
HAVE YOU READ THE ONE about the fake honey? There is lots of it in Canada, almost 23 percent of the tested samples proved to be sticky mix of corn syrup and sugar derived from various sources such as ...
Jul 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Don’t expect economy to boom because of new mural
KAMLOOPS - THE NEW MURAL on the Lansdowne Street parkade was officially christened Friday and it has accomplished something no other piece of public art has done in Kamloops - near-unanimously positiv...
Jul 29, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Fondly remembering the best boss I ever had
KAMLOOPS HAS HAD many outstanding media people over the years.Names like Jack Knox, Walter Jones, Frances Bula, Dave Obee, Angelo Iacobucci, Bob Price, Jim Harrison, Susan Duncan, Doug Collins and man...
Jul 27, 2019 Harry Francis
ROTHENBURGER: Flaggers are unsung heroes of Victoria Street West project
KAMLOOPS - THE FIRST PATCH OF ASPHALT has been put down on the Victoria Street West improvement project and it provides a thin ray of sunshine at the end of the tunnel.I say thin because there's a lon...
Jul 25, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
