Category Archives: Column
PETERS: Province's mental health strategy ignores seniors
MEDICAL SCIENCE HAS DONE WONDERS to keep us alive longer.As of 2011, Canadian life expectancy was 81.7 years. That means in less than a century, life expectancy increased by nearly 25 years. Amazing.T...
Jun 28, 2019 Image Credit: Flickr / Province of British Columbia
CHARBONNEAU: Pipeline approval won't help the Liberals
IF THE FEDERAL LIBERALS were as popular as the Trans Mountain pipeline, they would win the upcoming election in a landslide.The problem for the Liberals is that the pipeline is most popular where vote...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Let’s make our own decision on Daylight Saving Time
THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT'S survey on Daylight Saving Time is online and I recommend you fill it out - it takes only a few minutes to read the background and answer the questions.The backgrounders exp...
Jun 26, 2019 Image Credit: Oleg Dudko / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: UBCM delegates should boycott Chinese government reception
KAMLOOPS - THE UNION OF B.C. MUNICIPALITIES is under fire from some of its own members this week over a reception put on for delegates to its annual convention each September.The UBCM is the group tha...
Jun 25, 2019 Image Credit- UBCM
ROTHENBURGER: Shortage of nurse practitioners a familiar story
IF YOU'VE CALLED the primary care clinic recently, chances are you got a voicemail saying you shouldn't expect to get an appointment with a nurse practitioner any time soon.Touted only a couple of yea...
Jun 24, 2019 Image Credit: Manop Phimsit / Dreamstime.com
GINTA: Standing together takes us where we need to go
IT WAS LAST YEAR that I was camping with my family in a paradisiacal spot somewhere on the Shuswap. We were ready for the usual things we do on a camping trip, but because the weather was just right a...
Jun 24, 2019 Image Credit: Teerayut Oanwong / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Can chamber stay out of the politics of oil?
KAMLOOPS- FOR AN ORGANIZATION that wants politics kept out of the environmental review process for pipelines and other major projects, the Kamloops Chamber of Commerce has an interesting way of going ...
Jun 23, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
NEUSTAETER: Our Acceptance of Gun Violence Will Kill Us
Today, as I write this, the sun is shining, the TV is off so the world seems quiet and the last thing I want to think about is gun violence. But the fact is that just because we aren't talking about p...
Jun 23, 2019 Image Credit: © Photokvu | Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: We’re making things way too easy for our kids
WE'RE RUINING OUR KIDS, turning them into a bunch of confused, pampered wimps.We fight their fights in sports, in their education, in every aspect of their social development. We give them no credit, ...
Jun 22, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Lakewood Police Department
PETERS: The safe return of Lorne Hamer-Jackson gives us reason to keep hoping when all appears lost
IF NEWS IS SUPPOSED TO BE stories that are unexpected or out of the ordinary, then the biggest news story of the week wasn't the approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. That was hardly unex...
Jun 21, 2019 Image Credit: Hamer-Jackson family
