Category Archives: Column
What were they thinking?
KAMLOOPS - I often question how decisions are made regarding the design of intersections in the city. Especially where they involve properties that are in a difficult spot. It is not easy to resolve. ...
Sep 01, 2017
Bringing on Lake a marketing coup for Hydropothecary
KAMLOOPS - Hydropothecary is ready for the revolution. Or at least that’s what Terry Lake, a new executive with the Gatineau-based company, would have you believe. Hydropothecary produces medica...
Sep 01, 2017
Burn all books about Sir John A.
KAMLOOPS - The Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario doesn't go far enough when they recommend the removal of former Prime Minister John A. Macdonald's name from schools because of his role in th...
Aug 31, 2017
How can coming to see for yourself be inappropriate?
KAMLOOPS - Environment Minister George Heyman's refusal to come to Kamloops to talk about Ajax defies the normal bounds of logic, but politics is only occasionally logical. Heyman says in a letter to ...
Aug 31, 2017
Time SD73 got a fair shake on school upgrades
KAMLOOPS - This booklet tells an interesting story - it was announced by the School District 73 board of education this week and makes for some fascinating reading about how Kamloops schools have been...
Aug 30, 2017
Is anyone surprised the patient care tower is going ahead?
KAMLOOPS - Health Minister Adrian Dix's announcement Monday that the Royal Inland Hospital patient care tower will go ahead as planned by the Liberals is good news. But did anyone really think anythin...
Aug 29, 2017
Dave Gracey was a man who made a big difference
KAMLOOPS - A lot of Dave Gracey's friends are hoping he'll put up a post on his Facebook page that news of his death is greatly exaggerated, apologizing for the joke, or saying he lost a bet and had t...
Aug 28, 2017
Why we need to talk about salmon, and soon
KAMLOOPS - It happened during the eclipse that more than 300,000 Atlantic salmon escaped from a U.S. fish farm in the San Juan Islands. They are now found in the coastal waters of southern British Col...
Aug 28, 2017
BEING MAYOR, Chapter 6 — ‘A Dog’s Bite is Much Worse Than Its Bark’
KAMLOOPS - BEING MAYOR, Chapter 6 - 'A Dog's Bite is Much Worse Than Its Bark' By MEL ROTHENBURGER This is the sixth in a series on my experiences as the mayor of Kamloops from 1999 to 2005. "I hope p...
Aug 28, 2017
Removing tolls- good or bad?
KAMLOOPS - The NDP government this week announced it was going to eliminate tolls on the Port Mann and the Golden Ears bridges. It's probably the first of many decisions the NDP government will make t...
Aug 26, 2017
