Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Naming public facilities after sponsors is tricky
IT USED TO BE that we named public facilities after geographical locations or people who had done a lot for the community or the country. Now we sell names to people and corporations instead. The fiel...
Jan 08, 2019
GINTA: Climate change challenges will never be solved with cat doors
IF YOU WANT A CHUCKLE, check out the amusing story of how a $2,000 cat door installed in a West Vancouver home can help fight climate change (embedded in the $3 million home it belongs to). To be fair...
Jan 07, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Ex-councillor’s proposal on City-speak is worth talking about
KAMLOOPS - TWO AND A HALF MONTHS after Donovan Cavers lost his seat in the civic election, he remains a regular fixture at Kamloops City Council meetings. As a parting gift before he left, Cavers tabl...
Jan 07, 2019
NEUSTAETER: Forget the kids — adults are the problem at Sparkling Hill
I HAD BEEN ACHING to visit Sparkling Hill Resort and Spa near Vernon since it first opened and this year, after carefully planning, saving and splurging to make it possible, my husband surprised me wi...
Jan 06, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: We lost some very good people in 2018
I ONCE ARM WRESTLED Dr. Cynthia Ross-Friedman. In March 2014 I was interviewing her for a segment of Coffee With the Armchair Mayor, a feature I used to do for CBC Radio. I don't remember why we decid...
Jan 05, 2019
PETERS: Trudeau re-elected, and other predictions for 2019
It’s a new year, and that means new news stories in 2019. But there will also be a number of existing news stories continuing to develop this year. Here’s my best prognostication of what w...
Jan 04, 2019
CHARBONNEAU: Canada will become more multilingual this year
THE TRUDEA GOVERNMENT intends to enact the Indigenous Languages Act before the next election in October this year. The act will recognize the use of Indigenous languages as a “fundamental right....
Jan 03, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Pipeline promises to be headline grabber at Trudeau visit
THE FEDERAL ELECTION is, more or less, underway. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in Kamloops next week for a $300-a-plate fundraiser luncheon and, to read the regular pleas for money sent out to...
Jan 03, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: How come parking rate increases suddenly make sense?
KAMLOOPS - HAPPY NEW YEAR, especially to anyone wanting to park in downtown Kamloops. In keeping with the spirit of the season, the City has increased downtown parking rates as of New Year's Day. It w...
Jan 02, 2019
GINTA: Any new day is a good day to aim for becoming better
AS 2018 IS ENDING, there is a funny thing happening: the resolution machinery is put to work. Open any big box store flyer and you'll be reminded of resolutions, particularly the fitness ones. The dis...
Dec 31, 2018
