Category Archives: Column
NEUSTAETER: Responsible public or gullible consumers — be careful what you click
(Recommended listening: Pack Up by Eliza Doolittle)REMEMBER EARLIER THIS YEAR when Game of Thrones accidentally left a Starbucks cup in a shot during filming and everyone went berserk about it? In fac...
Jul 07, 2019 Image Credit: Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: City council’s toughest choice – green or growth
SELDOM HAS AN ISSUE been so starkly defined within the walls of Kamloops City Hall as during council's climate change debate.And never before have we heard Coun. Arjun Singh speak so articulately and ...
Jul 06, 2019 Image Credit: City of Kamloops council stream (council’s vote on Singh’s climate change motion)
PETERS: With the bottle cap challenge, at least no one ate laundry detergent
KEEPING UP WITH VIRAL PHENOMENA is not exactly my strength, but it was impossible this week to escape videos of the bottle cap challenge.In these videos, celebrities set a bottle in the foreground and...
Jul 05, 2019 Image Credit: Instagram / Jason Statham
CHARBONNEAU: Canada goes nuclear
CANADA IS THIRD IN THE WORLD in replacing fossil fuels with nuclear. France and Sweden have replaced almost all of their fossil-fuelled generated electricity with nuclear power. Now France generates o...
Jul 04, 2019 Pickering Nuclear Generating Plant, view from the Lake Ontario, is located in Pickering a city just outside of Toronto Canada. (Image Credit: Anjelagr / Dreamstime.com)
ROTHENBURGER: Who knew a crosswalk could cost $10,000?
IF A BUSINESS WAS RUN like government, it would go broke for lack of customers, who would soon give up waiting to be served.Not that governments should be run strictly like businesses but there are ti...
Jul 03, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: Scheer proves he can bring out a crowd during Kamloops stop
KAMLOOPS - THE KAMLOOPS SUNSHINE smiled on Andrew Scheer and the Conservatives yesterday. Three hundred and fifty people exchanged donations for burgers and hotdogs and applauded as Scheer trashed Jus...
Jul 02, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
ROTHENBURGER: The best thing about Canada Day was the absence of guilt
KAMLOOPS - DO YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKED best about Canada Day yesterday? No guilt, just joy. Sure, there were the usual mandatory references in speeches to how our country must do better - it seems imposs...
Jul 01, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
GINTA: If we mean all that we say today
THE AIR SMELLS SWEET AND STICKY. It smells of soapberries, though they are mere green blobs right now, so all I smell is a promise. I like it, it has a tinge of humbleness to it. On my right, as I wal...
Jul 01, 2019 McConnell Lake, June 30, 2019 (Image Credit: Daniela Ginta)
NEUSTAETER: Indigenous Day and Canada Day — Why I'm proud to be Canadian
AM I A PROUD TO BE A CANADIAN GIRL? Well, let's see, I:have my own hockey stick (although I don't play hockey)own at least a dozen toquessay "toques"know many facts about the beaver (two sets of eyeli...
Jun 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: You and I know less about Canada than we think
I CONSIDER MYSELF a good Canadian but, apparently, I'm not as good as I thought.The annual Historica.ca extreme trivia quiz is out. I barely passed it.Then I thought I'd try the real one, the one you ...
Jun 28, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
