Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: How much money is being wasted on West Victoria project?
KAMLOOPS - GET READY TO PRACTICE your zipper merge. Remember 2015, when the Overlanders Bridge was being rehabilitated and we spent eight months fighting traffic as the daily commute from North Shore ...
Mar 12, 2019
GINTA: 'Beyond Climate' supplies reason for hope
THERE IS AT LEAST ONE REASON why more than 700 people packed the Grand Hall of the Campus Activity Centre at TRU last Friday for the screening of Dr. Ian Mauro's newest documentary, Beyond Climate: to...
Mar 11, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Re-opening Westsyde elementary school should be a no-brainer
KAMLOOPS - THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES for School District 73 will make a million-dollar decision tonight - whether or not to re-open Westsyde elementary school. There's nothing sadder than a boarded-up sch...
Mar 11, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: We’ve got to talk about suicide, but how do we do it?
A YEAR AGO on Thursday, my daughter Edyn killed herself. She was 38. A year before that, in the same month, her son, my grandson Mykel, killed himself. He was 16. We need to talk about suicide. I prom...
Mar 09, 2019
PETERS: Here's why the government's SNC-Lavalin controversy is so important
MY 2019 PREDICTIONS COLUMN looks a little shaky now - especially that prediction that the Trudeau Liberals will return to power in the fall vote. It might still happen, given the alternatives, but the...
Mar 08, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: Threat from Huawei gear is overblown
ALL NATIONS SPY ON EACH OTHER and they don't need Huawei equipment to do so. The U.S. has targeted the Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei for potential spy software installed on their equipment c...
Mar 07, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: If Justin Trudeau goes, who’s going to run the country?
ONE OF THE THINGS that bothers me about the country's current troubles is the prospect of Andrew Scheer as prime minister. There's scant evidence that he has the right stuff. They used to say Justin T...
Mar 07, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Butts testimony presents very different picture of JWR affair
THE RUMBLE IN OTTAWA is now officially a he said-she said situation. Former principal secretary Gerald Butts gave his side of the story today and it is vastly different than the one Jody Wilson-Raybou...
Mar 06, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: The risks of consuming marijuana vs. upsizing your fries
KAMLOOPS - THE NORMALIZATION OF CANNABIS has a long way to go yet and part of the process is getting over our old fears about the weed. Some of those fears were expressed at the regular weekly meeting...
Mar 06, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Ajax could happen again if we don’t change some rules
THE AJAX MINE PROJECT may seem like a bad dream from long ago but it could happen again, or something like it, here or elsewhere. If it somehow reared its head again, it would do so under basically th...
Mar 05, 2019
