Category Archives: Column
NEUSTAETER: New Year, New Me – Just Joking
Last year my husband and I proudly made a long overdue New Year's resolution. *recommended listening while you read: The theme music for The Office (on repeat) Noticing that we had been staying up inc...
Dec 30, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: The Armchair Mayor Awards for news misses of 2018
KAMLOOPS – THE YEAR HAS GONE BY quickly, hasn't it? Hard to believe it's time for the 2018 Armchair Mayor Awards for news and news makers that made headlines but not necessarily in a good way. T...
Dec 29, 2018
CHARBONNEAU: Ditch the stoner image of cannabis users
NOW THAT cannabis is legal in Canada, a more accurate picture of users is emerging. Cannabis users are coming out into the daylight and they don't look like what's depicted in the movies. The Hollywoo...
Dec 27, 2018
NEUSTAETER: Top 10 - Traditions of Christmas
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE THINGS about raising a family of my own has been the ability to build, discover and happen into our own traditions; this is never on full display more than at Christmas! Some of ou...
Dec 23, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Frootloops council tackles crisis of snowless Christmas
THERE IS NO JOY in Frootloops. With only a few days to go before Christmas, the council gathers to deal with a crisis - no snow. As the newbies mill around trying to find their chairs, Mayor Ken Chris...
Dec 22, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Can we at last put proportional representation to rest?
KAMLOOPS - CAN WE NOW put proportional representation to rest? Thursday's referendum result wasn't even close - 61.3 per cent of those who voted in the mail-in referendum opted for keeping the First P...
Dec 21, 2018
PETERS: There are no sacred public spaces in Kamloops — and that includes Riverside Park
IF YOU HEAD DOWN TO RIVERSIDE PARK on any given summer day, you’re likely to see members of the Kamloops Society for Creative Anachronism, also known as the Shire of Ramsgaard, re-enacting class...
Dec 21, 2018
CHARBONNEAU: Some uncomfortable truths emerge in the U.S.-China power struggle
IN HIS OPEN LETTER to Canadians, I thought China's ambassador to Canada was being obtuse by wilfully ignoring Canada's legal obligations. Now I realize that legalities are not a concern of China's. Un...
Dec 20, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: New impaired-driving laws test our civil freedoms
ARE WE BECOMING a police state? Not yet, but the new impaired-driving laws that came into effect this week certainly give police a lot more power than they had before. Under the provisions of Bill C-4...
Dec 20, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Politicians should not be immune from tax increases
KAMLOOPS - WOULDN'T IT BE NICE if we could all receive a magic pill for Christmas that would make us immune from tax increases? After all, income taxes are going up. Property taxes are going up. Car i...
Dec 19, 2018
