Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: RCMP tread fine line on sharing information about murders
KAMLOOPS - THE RCMP CAN NEVER get enough information to the public fast enough when there's a dramatic police event.The double murder in northern B.C., the death of a third man and the disappearance o...
Jul 24, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: ‘Quiet time’ at the supermarket just what the doctor ordered
EVER THINK SHOPPING is just too noisy? Are you getting tired of hearing those hits of the '60s over the loud speakers at your super market? A grocery store in Nelson might have just what the doctor or...
Jul 23, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
GINTA: Kamloops must do better at offering accessibility to the visually impaired
DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE DOING on the morning of May 16th at 7:45 or so? Todd Harding does. He was walking downtown to his work with his guide dog, Luke. The pair stopped on the sidewalk near the...
Jul 22, 2019 Image Credit: Sergejs Kuznecovs / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Salmon airlift a justified response to Mother Nature
KAMLOOPS - I HAD A RIDE in a helicopter once, or maybe twice.A few thousand or million salmon will get the same opportunity now that officials have decided to capture them below the Big Bar rock slide...
Jul 22, 2019 Image Credit: Govt. of B.C.
ROTHENBURGER: More on how we try, and mostly fail, to control panhandling
SUPPOSE YOU'RE AT THE BANK MACHINE and there's a panhandler sitting or standing there and he asks you for some spare change.Would you feel comfortable sliding your bank card into the machine and withd...
Jul 20, 2019 Panhandling bylaw sign, Columbia Street
PETERS: Apollo astronauts embodied human instinct for exploration
ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE APOLLO 11 mission that saw humans land on the moon for the first time, it is appropriate that we ask the question, what are we doing in space? Three Apollo astronauts we...
Jul 19, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: Health Canada cracks down on cell injection clinics
THE GLOSSY AD arrived in my mailbox within days of reading that Health Canada was clamping down on private clinics offering cell injection treatments. The ad was for a seminar on Regenerative Medicine...
Jul 18, 2019 Image Credit: Dmitry Kotin / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Trump's latest racist tweets are absurd, disgusting
THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS Canada is better at than the U.S. Our air is cleaner, our money is prettier, our comedians are funnier, our health care is better.But, thanks to Donald Trump, nobody can scre...
Jul 18, 2019 Image Credit: The Associated Press
ROTHENBURGER: Don’t expect too much from the gas-price inquiry
KAMLOOPS - I'M NOT GETTING MY HOPES UP for the hearings that get underway today on gasoline prices in B.C.I'll be surprised if the inquiry doesn't conclude that gas prices are the result of supply and...
Jul 17, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Maybe fines for panhandling actually work
THE LATEST ATTEMPT to do something about panhandling comes in Salmon Arm, where the City council has approved a $50 fine.Controlling the unwanted aspects of homelessness is not easy, and politically r...
Jul 16, 2019 Image Credit: Miroslav Pinkava / Dreamstime.com
