Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: What’s so great about being the third fastest growing city in Canada?
GROW, GROW, GROW. We can't stop talking about it. Growth is good. Growth is God. We must go higher, wider, bigger.The growth bug hits Kamloops every once in a while, like now, when everybody gets exci...
Feb 24, 2024
PETERS: Spend-happy provincial government should pay for KFR medical response unit
IF YOU LIVE IN THE CITY OF KAMLOOPS and your taxes go up a little higher next year, a new medical response unit for Kamloops Fire Rescue might be part of the reason.Chief Ken Uzeloc has requested the ...
Feb 23, 2024
COLLINS: Older people are starting to believe the golden years don't start until you're dead
SENIORS ARE PERHAPS THE MOST FORGOTTEN GROUP in today's society. Every day, we see the tragedy that faces seniors. Old people left to literally rot away in a bed where they get little real care. No on...
Feb 23, 2024
SOUND OFF: Eby's budget inflating costs, preserving the status quo
EARLIER THIS WEEK DAVID EBY and the NDP made their Speech from the Throne, a sneak peek at what to expect with their upcoming budget. However, if the proposed budget is anything like their throne spee...
Feb 22, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Free speech versus protecting schools from disruptive protests
THRONE SPEECHES are typically vapid snoozers, and B.C.'s NDP government didn't let us down this week. The Throne Speech is supposed to give us a general idea of what the government's priorities are fo...
Feb 22, 2024
SOUND OFF: Your garbage, your privacy and the City of Kamloops supplemental budget
THIS TUESDAY (Feb. 20), the City of Kamloops held its 2024 budget consultation to inform the residents of how the budgeting process works and the supplemental budget items. The city staff have put on ...
Feb 21, 2024
SOUND OFF: BC Builds helps bring more housing to British Columbians
I HEAR ALL THE TIME in my office about how too many rental homes are out of reach for people, even if they make a decent, middle-class wage, and how people are feeling forced to spend more than half o...
Feb 21, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Council should have remembered the Wealthy Barber’s advice
FORMER CITY COUNCILLOR Arjun Singh must have been sitting on the edge of his seat Tuesday as the current council considered ways to reduce an expected budget increase for this year.The council decided...
Feb 21, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Learning to live without plastic straws and grocery checkout bags
IT'S AMAZING how we're able to adapt to changes we insisted we'd never be able to adapt to.It took a few decades but we're weaning ourselves off single-use plastics quite nicely. A Research Co. poll s...
Feb 20, 2024
COLLINS: Council getting a lot done amid the crap
THIS PAST WEEK GOING THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, I saw a comment that made a lot of sense. I wasn't able to find it again, but the essence of the comment was that we were spending way too much time talking ...
Feb 18, 2024
