Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: How is opposing birthright citizenship against Canadian values?
BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP just might become the hot button issue of the next federal election. It has all the necessary ingredients. A divide between the left and the right. Ethnic and racial implication...
Dec 18, 2018
GINTA: Should intolerance be rewarded?
TWO DAYS AGO, while on an errand run, I met Michael, the homeless man who always has a smile on. He greeted me with 'Merry Christmas'. Rather than question his assumption of my celebrating Christmas (...
Dec 17, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: City has some explaining to do on Noble Creek water system
KAMLOOPS - IT WILL TAKE the wisdom of Solomon to sort out the Noble Creek water mess. The dilemma is familiar to anyone on a small rural water system. The difference is that the Noble Creek system in ...
Dec 17, 2018
NEUSTAETER: Comfort and Joy — It’s okay not to be okay at Christmas
IDEALLY, AND FOR MANY, the Christmas season is a time of joyful anticipation, traditions, family and festivity. Those who experience a quintessential Christmas that is free of heavy-heartedness should...
Dec 16, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: There will never be another like Angelo Iacobucci
ANGELO IACOBUCCI was good column fodder. I once wrote about watching in amazement as he sat in City council chambers during a meeting and ate French fries and clipped his toe nails. Describing his hai...
Dec 15, 2018
PETERS: A word of support for climate science
IS THERE ANYTHING MORE IRRITATING on a cold day than the wind throwing knives into your face as you walk outside? Yes there is, actually. It’s the people who sneer, “What happened to globa...
Dec 14, 2018
CHARBONNEAU: Redefining pro-life
THE HARDENING OF ABORTION into the pillars of political parties is showing fractures. Whether abortion is a human right belonging to a woman or a human right that belongs to the fetus used to be a phi...
Dec 13, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: The time has paws-itively come for mandatory cat licensing
SOMETIMES THE MOST seemingly uncontroversial things can become contentious. The City of Kamloops announced this week a new online process for the purchase of dog licences. It's quite simple: dog owner...
Dec 13, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Best response to protesters — let them shout in a vacuum
KAMLOOPS - EVERYBODY'S TIP TOEING around this week's anti-pipeline protest at Thompson Rivers University. The police, the university, federal bureaucrats and the media are all being very careful not t...
Dec 12, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Why do we need to wear dead animals for fashion?
KAMLOOPS - A RECENT LAWSUIT resulting from the death of a dog in an animal trap has raised the issue of mandatory warning signs where the traps are set. The trap named in the lawsuit is one that was d...
Dec 11, 2018
