Category Archives: Column
CHARBONNEAU: Closure of the Vavenby mill was so predictable
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED the collapse of B.C. forestry industry 15 years ago? Bob Simpson, that's who. Back then the NDP MLA for Cariboo North was derided by the BC Liberals in the B.C. legislature an...
Jun 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: How long will today’s Canadians have to say ‘Sorry’?
I'M WONDERING IF WE COULD get a list together of all the things Canada has done wrong and apologize for all of them at once.Canada Day might be a good time to do that. Apparently, our country has a lo...
Jun 19, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Trans Mountain approval a ‘cake and eat it too’ plan
KAMLOOPS - THERE WAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING surprising about the federal government's announcement that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is back on track.Not surprising that it was approved a second ...
Jun 19, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: National swooning over the Raptors is a bit much
KAMLOOPS - HOW ABOUT THOSE RAPTORS?Monday's Raptors parade in Toronto, and the wall-to-wall, over-the-top media coverage and national swooning was enough to rival Canada Day celebrations.In fact, you'...
Jun 18, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: The do and don’t lists of summer
A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO the Kamloops skies were smoky from the wildfires in Alberta and everyone was thinking the same: it's too soon. Aside from a few small fires around Kamloops, we are having it as g...
Jun 17, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Adam Donnelly
ROTHENBURGER: Blue Dot tests council’s green commitment
KAMLOOPS - WE'LL SEE HOW COMMITTED Kamloops City council is to the environment tomorrow when a seemingly routine request for a declaration of support comes up.The Kamloops chapter of what's known as t...
Jun 16, 2019 Image Credit: bluedot.ca
NEUSTAETER: Dear fathers — we need you
I HAVE FOUND THAT SOMETIMES when people don't know me personally, they assume that I don't like men because I am a self-proclaimed feminist. (Read: I believe in and often speak to the importance of ge...
Jun 16, 2019 Image Credit: creativecommonsstockphotos / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Life in a small town can get a bit silly at times
LIFE IN A SMALL TOWN can get kind of silly, sometimes, can't it? By small town, I mean, of course, small in the best sense of the word, a place where you can walk down the main street or sit in a coff...
Jun 15, 2019 Fake fire hydrant (l); real fire hydrant across the street from the fake one (Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger)
PETERS: It's folly to suggest an elected official can separate their public and private personas online
PEOPLE CURSE OTHERS OUT and resort to abuse on social media. That's no surprise.When it's a city councillor doing the cussing, though, it's worth some scrutiny.Kamloops Councillor Dale Bass made sever...
Jun 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Invisible council has to put up its hand for PAC to have a chance
KAMLOOPS - I HOPE THE 'HANDS OFF' STRATEGY City Hall seems to be taking on the performing arts centre works but I'm not so sure it will.The idea is to put a strong community group out front to act as ...
Jun 12, 2019
