Category Archives: Column
COLLINS: Is it now or never for a new performing arts centre?
AFTER YEARS OF FIDDLING AROUND, the city is getting serious again about some new amenities, like a new performing arts centre (PAC) and new recreation facilities like a swimming pool and new ice surfa...
Jan 28, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Saying farewell to John DeCicco, the Barber of Main Street
THE BARBER OF MAIN STREET, John DeCicco, died this week. He was a friend of mine.Besides cutting hair, John was a former City councillor. I knew him for some 30 years, before, during and after politic...
Jan 27, 2024
PETERS: All for the simple sin of wanting to relieve their pain
HYDROMORPHONE IS AN AMAZING SUBSTANCE.When that opioid is coursing through your veins, everything in the world is okay.You feel calm, you feel relaxed, and most importantly, your pain fades away.Every...
Jan 26, 2024
SOUND OFF: Rothenburger's extreme Trump, truckers rhetoric divisive, dismissive
MEL ROTHENBURGER'S JANUARY 17 COLUMN states that if Donald Trump gets elected in 2024, it will be the worst of all our worries for the future. This sort of nonsense is becoming typical of sensationali...
Jan 26, 2024
COLLINS: The B.C. Housing rules get more and more confusing
THE B.C. HOUSING RULES become more confusing by the day. The rules are all over the place and there doesn't seem to be a plan in sight. As usual, the province provides lots of rhetoric but little subs...
Jan 26, 2024
SOUND OFF: NDP deliver deadliest overdose results in B.C.'s history
THIS WEEK THE BC CORONER SERVICE reported that in 2023, British Columbia witnessed the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a calendar year.Every life lost to an overdose is a tragedy, a...
Jan 25, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Performing arts centre must include adequate parking nearby
THE DOWNTOWN PARKING PROBLEM won't go away just because we want it to.The official line from City Hall a few years ago was that more parking spaces were needed. When the plan for a performing arts cen...
Jan 25, 2024
SOUND OFF: Supporting local governments to deliver more housing
HOUSING IS ONE OF THE TOP ISSUES affecting British Columbians today, and it's been a key focus since we formed government in 2017. When we launched our comprehensive Homes for People plan, we wanted t...
Jan 24, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Court decision on Emergencies Act doesn’t validate ‘Freedom Convoy’
QUITE THE BOMBSHELL yesterday with a Federal Court ruling that the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act against the so-called Freedom Convoy in Ottawa a couple of years ago was "not justifi...
Jan 24, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Mourning the loss of the city’s daily newspaper 10 years ago
TEN YEARS AGO, in January 2014, Kamloops lost its daily newspaper. I don't think the city has fully recovered.The Kamloops Daily News closed a year and a half after I retired, and I like to say it jus...
Jan 23, 2024
