Category Archives: Column
NEUSTAETER: Motherhood — The Teenage Years
IT ISN'T UNTIL YOU'RE WELL INTO IT that you can look back with perspective and see the ebbs and flows of each stage of motherhood, but it's so important that we try to cherish what is fleeting and sac...
May 12, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: New intersection speed cameras don’t go far enough
ONCE AGAIN, KAMLOOPS has been left out.Thirty-five B.C. intersections will be monitored with radar cameras to catch drivers who speed through. None will be in Kamloops.The only thing wrong with this p...
May 11, 2019 Image Credit: Nicolas1975 | Dreamstime.com
PETERS: Green Party a wasted vote no longer
IT WASN'T LONG AGO that the Green Party was generally believed to be a place reserved for the strictest of idealogues, and otherwise a place to waste your vote. People upset at the Liberals, Conservat...
May 10, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CHARBONNEAU: Persuade, don't malign anti-vaxxers
IF WE REALLY WANT TO convince parents to vaccinate their children, name-calling and vilification is not the way to go.Yet, that seems to be a common tactic. You don't have to go far on social media to...
May 09, 2019 Image Credit: Todsaporn Bunmuen / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: No need for police to be defensive about investigations
THE KAMLOOPS RCMP DETACHMENT has been having some embarrassing moments.The tragic drowning death of a 23-year-old international student in the North Thompson River last weekend was marked by initial m...
May 08, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
ROTHENBURGER: Character assassination of famous B.C. judge must stop
KAMLOOPS - THE CAMPAIGN TO DEMONIZE the most prominent jurist in British Columbia's history continues.Monday night, New Westminster City council voted to remove the statue of Chief Justice Matthew Bai...
May 07, 2019 Image Credit: B.C. Provincial Archives
ROTHENBURGER: Let’s wish the newest royal baby all the best — he’ll need it
KAMLOOPS - THE FIRST QUESTION asked after every royal birth is, what will the baby be named?And the second is, do you care? A lot, apparently, don't. I'm ambivalent.I have nothing against babies -most...
May 06, 2019 Image Credit: BBC
GINTA: Stories from lilac town
OUR FIRST SPRING in Kamloops, back in 2013, came with a big surprise: lilacs! Everywhere you looked and lots of them, from majestic old trees to wee starter shrubs: We had landed in Lilac City! (I gre...
May 06, 2019 Image Credit: Lbulakh | Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Silly season begins but it’s still a two-horse race
KAMLOOPS - ANOTHER BYELECTION TODAY, this one in Nanaimo-Ladysmith to fill a vacancy left after then-NDP MP Sheila Malcolmson switched to provincial politics and is now an MLA.We know from experience ...
May 06, 2019
NEUSTAETER: Doing it for the gram: when you no longer know who likes you
A while ago, I asked a businessman at a networking event if his wife was there as well. He replied, "She doesn't want to spend a lot of time with me these days and we're not doing so well...she didn't...
May 05, 2019 Image Credit: Bigtunaonline | Dreamstime.com
