Category Archives: Column
GINTA: Sometimes we need a break from it all
NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I SEE IT, I never get tired of it: the emerald sheen of the surrounding hills this time of the year, the play of cloud shadows and sunshine that makes the grasslands look as i...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: Daniela Ginta
ROTHENBURGER: Scheer’s national energy corridor just another pipe dream
KAMLOOPS - WAS THERE EVER a more absurd scheme than Andrew Scheer's proposal to create what he calls a "national energy corridor"?The timing of his idea was perfect, coming as the B.C. Court of Appeal...
May 26, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
NEUSTAETER: Motorcycles and Me; pretend it's your mom on that bike
The first time I hopped on the back of a motorcycle I was 16 years old and the guy driving was just 18. I don't remember giving the safety concerns more than a passing thought and from first rev it wa...
May 26, 2019 Image Credit: Katie Neustaeter
ROTHENBURGER: No sign of a wave coming to help out candidates
EVERYBODY IN TOWN knows who's going to win the next federal election. Just ask them.And who will be the next MP for Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo? Just ask them.Here's a hint - it won't be Gina Myhill-Jon...
May 25, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
PETERS: On abortion and women's health, listen to women — not me
I DON'T WRITE AND SPEAK very often from a first person point of view, because I'd rather not bring myself into most of the topics I discuss. It's my opinion that I'm putting out there, obviously, not ...
May 24, 2019 How senators voted on the most restrictive abortion ban in the United States. (Image Credit: CNN)
CHARBONNEAU: Sometimes it's not easy being a pro-vaxxer
DESPITE THE FACT THAT VACCINES have saved uncountable lives and virtually wiped out smallpox, polio, tetanus and rabies, vaccine risks exist. When those risks result in death, people lose trust in all...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: Felipe Caparros Cruz / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Media shouldn’t decide their own bailouts
KAMLOOPS - FEDERAL TAX SUBSIDIES to the media no doubt began with the best of intentions but they promise to end badly.Eight news organizations have been invited to sit on a panel to decide which medi...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons
ROTHENBURGER: Abortion debate unlikely to be rekindled in Canada
KAMLOOPS- WILL THE ANTI-ABORTION DEBATE return to a neighbourhood near us?A lot of people seem to be asking that question as the issue suddenly returns to the headlines south of the border, where seve...
May 22, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Things are very different for Trudeau during this visit
KAMLOOPS - PRIME MINISTER JUSTIN TRUDEAU is scheduled to be in town tonight and it promises to be a very different set of circumstances than the last time he was here in January.Back then, he was gree...
May 21, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
GINTA: The world can be changed for the better and many are doing it already
IF YOU WERE TO SIT WITH US FOR DINNER on any given night, you would be privy to a recurrent conversation that surfaces whenever social issues such as poverty, violation of human rights and modern-day ...
May 20, 2019 Image Credit: Oliver Perez / Dreamstime.com
