Category Archives: Column
GINTA: Will locking and guarding bathrooms fix the vaping problem?
THE SHORT ANSWER IS NO. Yes, vaping is a big problem, health-wise in the first place. You may have heard that a North Vancouver high school is tackling the vaping-in-the-bathroom issue by locking all ...
Dec 10, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: The gutless revisionism of Christmas traditions
KAMLOOPS - OK, WE CAN ALL STOP being cute and clever about Christmas carols. No more tongue-in-cheek demanding that Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer be taken off the airwaves because it's about bullying...
Dec 10, 2018
NEUSTAETER: Baby, It's Cold Outside — but we need to chill out
THIS WEEK MANY RADIO STATIONS (including CBC, Rogers Media and Bell Media) announced their decisions to pull the classic holiday song Baby, It's Cold Outside because of complaints about the lyrics bei...
Dec 09, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: When will healthcare system wake up to the sleep crisis?
"YOU HAVE INSOMNIA," the doctor told me as she scrolled through screen after screen of charts, graphs, notations and squiggly lines, the results of my night at the sleep clinic. This was earlier this ...
Dec 08, 2018
PETERS: Embracing logical change keeps our brains young
WHEN HUMANS ARE YOUNG, our brains are at their most malleable. From birth to about age three, scientists tell us young brains are literally, physically changing every day. As we get older, the rate of...
Dec 07, 2018
CHARBONNEAU: Blueberries without borders
BLUEBERRIES HAVE ARRIVED from Peru in my local store. Next they'll be coming from Chile, then Mexico. As spring moves north, they will arrive from Florida. Then in late spring they'll be ripening in G...
Dec 06, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Social issues call for tiered approach to policing
AS DEMANDS ON POLICING become more and more onerous, it's obvious some new ways of doing things are needed. Under a pilot program in Toronto, for example, first-time shoplifters won't be charged becau...
Dec 06, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Polls, turnout tell us final days could decide referendum
KAMLOOPS - THOUGH I'M NOT A MEMBER of any political party, I quite often receive emails from one of them urging me to take action. "Mel," the message usual begins, "the time to take action is now! We ...
Dec 05, 2018
ROTHENBURGER: Riverside Park entrance not the place for new development
WHAT IS IT about the word "park" that developers don't get? The plan to put a year-round market on the Heritage House parking lot in Riverside Park lives on. According to the Kamloops Public Market Co...
Dec 04, 2018
GINTA: Let's put school bus safety on Santa's list
A FEW DAYS AGO, a school bus carrying ten youth and two adults was involved in an accident near Cache Creek. Fortunately, everyone survived; one person had critical, but non-life-threatening injuries....
Dec 03, 2018
