Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: How Kamloops can help stop China from bullying Canada
KAMLOOPS - I'VE ALWAYS BELIEVED that the most effective form of diplomacy takes place between regular folks far from the halls of power. It's time to put some of that diplomacy to work. A Canadian has...
Jan 16, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Why international students must pay more
AN INTERESTING QUESTION, one of many, came up during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's visit to the TRU campus last week. There were a lot of international students in the audience. One of them suggeste...
Jan 15, 2019
GINTA: There should still be grace and decency in the public political discourse
SATURDAY MORNING STARTED with a good amount of sunshine and blue skies. I hiked and took in the fresh air and the beautiful landscape, and spent some time remembering Cindy Ross Friedman, whom I got t...
Jan 14, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: There should be a lot of red faces over downtown parking rates
KAMLOOPS - CITY HALL SHOULD BE thoroughly embarrassed about the screw-up over downtown parking rates. As I mentioned earlier, an increase in rates came into effect Jan. 1 with no advance reminder from...
Jan 14, 2019
NEUSTAETER: A Performing Arts Centre, Act 2
THE PERFORMING ARTS were a very important part of my life growing up, and I certainly would not have the career or skills I do today without them, so I am not without my bias. On many occasions the Sa...
Jan 13, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Five hurdles the performing arts centre must cross
IT'S A PRETTY SAFE assumption that another referendum on a performing arts centre is in the cards. The challenge will be to get it over the 50 per cent threshold. Since the 2015 referendum fell just s...
Jan 12, 2019
PETERS: Yellow Vests group shot its credibility this week
YOU NEVER GET A SECOND CHANCE to make a first impression, so the slogan goes. When I first heard of the Yellow Vests Canada group and looked into them a little bit a few weeks ago, the first thing I n...
Jan 11, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: Trump takes on the military-industrial complex
U.S. PRESIDENT TRUMP’S GOAL of pulling troops from the Middle East threatens the established order that has dominated the American economy and foreign policy since the end of the Second World Wa...
Jan 10, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Trudeau comes out ahead when anti-pipeline hecklers throw mud
KAMLOOPS - GIVE A HECKLER a microphone, and Justin Trudeau is at his best. The prime minister's two-day chock-full-of-events visit to Kamloops got underway as expected Wednesday morning with a couple ...
Jan 10, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Ask not how to make PAC plan fail, but how to make it work
KAMLOOPS - IT WOULD BE very easy to poke holes in the new proposal for a performing arts centre unveiled on Tuesday. There are a lot of questions to be asked, the main one being, how much will it cost...
Jan 09, 2019
