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ROTHENBURGER: Once again, we vow never to let it happen again
SO OFTEN WE HEAR of tragedies after which we all vow to make sure they never happen again. "We have to make sure no one else ever has to go through that," we say. And yet, the same bad things happen a...
May 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
NEUSTAETER: Bikinis, bistros and the business of exploiting women
One of the great challenges of raising a daughter is teaching her how to clothe her body. It's important to respect her individuality and empower her own sense of style without allowing current fashio...
May 19, 2019 Image Credit: Mykola Velychko / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: We’ve now crossed the line of incivility into death threats
IT KEEPS GETTING TOUGHER and tougher to serve your community in politics. This week, a 52-year-old man was arrested for threatening the life of Kelowna mayor Colin Basran.It's worth examining how this...
May 18, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Colin Basran
PETERS: McLachlin Report shows the legislature needs proper supervision
THE MANY WAYS adults act like children will never cease to be fascinating. From video game obsessions to adult colouring books, more and more grown-ups are trying to hold onto childhood as long as pos...
May 17, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CHARBONNEAU: Alberta's faulty pipeline gambit
THE ALBERTA GOVERNMENT SAYS that if only B.C. would allow a second pipeline to be built, our gasoline prices would go down. If only it were true. The new pipeline will not supply more gasoline to B.C....
May 16, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
ROTHENBURGER: Forget the bikinis, just serve some really good food
I REALLY THOUGHT the days were mostly over of restaurants requiring their female servers to wear skimpy attire. I say "mostly," because you can still find in this town the occasional restaurant where ...
May 16, 2019 Image Credit: Dafrica / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: City council needs wisdom of Solomon on tax ratios
KAMLOOPS - THE ANNUAL DANCE between Domtar and the City is underway.For the past eight or nine years, the pulp mill has been demanding a better deal on the taxes it and other heavy industries pay to t...
May 14, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Canada’s athletes should refuse to compete against China
I CAUGHT A FEW ENDS of curling on TV last weekend. It was an international competition called the Curling World Cup Grand Final.I thought, "What the hell?" This event was being held in Beijing. There ...
May 13, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
GINTA: Judgment prevents us from remembering that everyone carries a story
A FEW DAYS AGO, I read an opinion piece about Mother's Day. The author, a teacher by profession, argued that less emphasis on the joy of Mother's Day in the school environment would spare some kids th...
May 13, 2019 Image Credit: Pojoslaw / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER – Afternoon council meetings win the day over evenings
KAMLOOPS - THE IDEA OF HOLDING regular Kamloops City council meetings in the evening instead of afternoon was worth looking at but a staff report on the issue has given council several reasons to stic...
May 12, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
