Category Archives: Column
GINTA: Rules and common sense can make our roads safer, but that's not enough
THERE IS HARDLY A WEEK OR WEEKEND that goes by without news of car crashes on our highways or within city limits. Too many of them are fatal. Whether you are a driver, passenger, cyclist or pedestrian...
Jul 15, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Chuckwagon races should be abolished
THE CALGARY STAMPEDE wrapped up Sunday night and three more horses died in the chuckwagon races. That makes a total of six at this year's event.The driver of the team that caused an accident involving...
Jul 15, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Plastic-bag fiasco proves need for recall law for city councils
DO YOU EVER WISH there was a way to throw the rascals out without waiting for the next election?There is at the provincial level, but not municipal. Maybe it's time for an overhaul of the municipal el...
Jul 13, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
PETERS: Plastic bags get a bad rap, but we need better options to deal with them
WHEN IT COMES TO the plastic bags we get at the grocery store, the term 'single-use' may be a misnomer. Most of the time, it's really easy to find a second or third use for those bags - anything from ...
Jul 12, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: Run-of-river has had its run
FORMER B.C. PREMIER GORDON CAMPBELL'S plan for run-of-river generators was a mistake. It left BC Hydro in debt and with power it can't use. The NDP government plans to let some of those independent co...
Jul 11, 2019 Image Credit: BC Hydro
ROTHENBURGER: Looters deserve to be hammered hard by the courts
KAMLOOPS - OKANAGAN-SIMILKAMEEN-NICOLA MP DAN ALBAS is shopping around for support of a private member's bill he hopes will deter anyone tempted to take advantage of wildfire evacuees by looting their...
Jul 11, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Guardians of beige continue to hold sway at City Hall
KAMLOOPS - TIME TO BEAT THE DRUM AGAIN for colour in our buildings. I do it about once every five years in hopes someone will listen.What brings it up now is that at yesterday's Kamloops City council ...
Jul 10, 2019 Image Credit: Pixabay
ROTHENBURGER: Why the old system of snap elections was better
KAMLOOPS - ARE YOU GETTING TIRED of the election campaign yet? I know, the campaign isn't officially underway yet, and it's still more than three months until election day. But unofficially, the campa...
Jul 09, 2019 Image Credit: Kamloops Today
GINTA: Stereotyping does everyone a disservice — more so when applied to our teenagers
I WAS DRIVING THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN, down Fourth Avenue when I got startled by yelling and hand-waving coming out of a car parked on the side of the street. A bunch of teenage girls in an SUV were tryi...
Jul 08, 2019 Image Credit: Vadimgozhda / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: What about those produce bags and doggie-poop bags?
KAMLOOPS - THE UPHILL BATTLE against plastic is amply demonstrated by the draft bylaw going in front of Kamloops City council this week.Council deserves credit for moving toward a ban on single-use ta...
Jul 07, 2019 Image Credit: Mal Rothenburger
