Category Archives: Column
GINTA: The antidote to internet challenges is presence — the real kind
LIKE ALL PARENTS WITH SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN, I received the district heads-up letter about the Momo challenge. By now most are familiar with the strange, creepy face of the Momo character and the intern...
Mar 04, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Renting isn’t the madcap time of life Wilkinson thinks it is
KAMLOOPS - I REMEMBER RENTING when I was a student. And when I got my first full-time job. And my second, and my third. To borrow a phrase from B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson, what a "wacky" tim...
Mar 04, 2019
NEUSTAETER: There shouldn't be an International Women's Day
THIS COMING FRIDAY, March 8, is another annual International Women's Day. The celebration of International Women's Day began in some parts of the world just after the turn of the 20th Century and was ...
Mar 03, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: One word scrawled on newspaper renders verdict in JWR affair
THE NEWSPAPER IN THE COFFEE SHOP Friday morning said all there is to know about the scandal involving former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. The story was, of course, front-page news as usual, ...
Mar 02, 2019
PETERS: Interior Health should take responsibility for maternity snafu at Williams Lake hospital
FEWER AND FEWER PEOPLE are settling in the towns where they grew up nowadays. And when they look for a place to live long term - maybe start a family - they will choose a community not only based on e...
Mar 01, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: Mexico could ease Canada's cannabis problem
THE PLAN TO DRIVE illegal cannabis growers out of business is going slowly. The problem is supplying enough legal cannabis to lower retail prices. Eventually illegal sellers will be a quaint memory, s...
Feb 28, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Snap election the only way to sort out Wilson-Raybould affair
KAMLOOPS - AFTER THE HOURS-LONG TESTIMONY of former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on Wednesday, there's a clear path to getting the country out of this crisis. I'll get to what that is in a mi...
Feb 28, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Pink Shirt Day is about kindness, not about marketing
KAMLOOPS - I'M WEARING a pink tie today. OK, it's Pink 'Shirt' Day but that's become a slight misnomer - the idea is that we all wear something pink to support the movement against bullying. It was st...
Feb 27, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Mandatory measles vaccinations shouldn’t be ruled out
KAMLOOPS - NEW CASES OF MEASLES seem to come up every day in B.C. and, while not quite an epidemic yet, it's raising new concerns about a disease we'd all thought was finished. In Europe, the number o...
Feb 26, 2019
GINTA: Search and Rescue funding must be included in provincial budget planning
I HAVE NEVER been in a situation where I had to be rescued by one of the SAR groups in our province. But like everyone else, I have been hearing and reading a lot of stories about people needing rescu...
Feb 25, 2019
