Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: The Pinantan chicken and other tales of being grounded in the polar vortex
WHEN EVEN winter-hardened veterans from our neck of the woods complain about the weather, you know things aren't normal. I haven't heard this much bitching since Tim Hortons put chicken strips on the ...
Feb 16, 2019
PETERS: Kamloops won't end up with as many cannabis shops as it seems
HOW MANY FLOWER STORES do we have in Kamloops? How many coffee shops or shoe stores? You don’t know, do you? That’s understandable. But by now, you are probably aware that the City of Kaml...
Feb 15, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: BC Liberals suppressed BC Hydro rate hikes
FOR DECADES, B.C. governments have hidden the true cost of BC Hydro rates - but especially the BC Liberals. Under the direction of the BC Liberals, the Crown utility used "inappropriate" accounting to...
Feb 14, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Lack of change station in men’s washroom a First World problem
IF YOU HAD ANY DOUBTS that we live in a nanny state, read up on the case of the Kamloops dad who was "shocked" to find the men's washroom in a Kamloops McDonalds didn't have a diaper change station. H...
Feb 14, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Scandals here and in Ottawa overshadow boring B.C. Throne Speech
KAMLOOPS - IN NORMAL TIMES, yesterday's Speech from the Throne in the B.C. Legislature would have dominated the news for a couple of days. But these aren't normal times. Instead of the Throne Speech, ...
Feb 13, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Protecting store clerks from robbers is a two-way street
BUSINESSMAN DENIS WALSH - as opposed to Coun. Denis Walsh - hasn't had a good couple of weeks. First, his Movie Mart store was robbed. Then it was robbed again. Then WorksafeBC inspected it - and nail...
Feb 12, 2019
GINTA: It is high time we end the mental health stigma
IT’S ALMOST A YEAR since I encountered human pain in a way that I never thought I would and there is rarely a day I do not think of it, more so because it happened in the place I go for morning ...
Feb 11, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: New civic election expense rules penalize newcomers
CAMPAIGN FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES released by Elections BC for last fall's civic election seem to reveal a long-held suspicion - big spending wins elections. It isn't as simple as that, though. Yes, the ...
Feb 11, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: There’s a big difference between listening and empowering
ENGAGEMENT, CONSULTATION AND TRANSPARENCY are big words in governments at all levels right now. Issues like pipeline expansion, electoral reform and First Nations rights come to mind but let's stick c...
Feb 09, 2019
NEUSTAETER: The painful irony of the anti-vaxxer
LAST WEEK, in the midst of a global measles outbreak,* an anti-vaxxer mother in the USA made headlines when she non-ironically took to her 'natural health’ anti-vaccination Facebook group to ple...
Feb 08, 2019
