Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Rise in medical calls for KFR raises issue of double coverage
CITY HALL STAFF will be asked to track the costs of sending Kamloops Fire Rescue to medical emergencies. This, after City council's security and safety committee heard from the fire chief that medical...
Dec 12, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Strike at Bay store is more bad news for the Christmas economy
HUDSON'S BAY STORE union workers went on strike yesterday in Kamloops, which comes at a bad time both for the store and for shoppers.Few details were released about the contract issues that led to a b...
Dec 11, 2023
COLLINS: Women face an appalling uphill battle
Trigger warning: This column discusses gender-based violence.THIS WEEK, WE HELD A VIGIL to commemorate the 1989 massacre of 14 women in an attack at the Polytechnique Institute in Montreal. The shooti...
Dec 10, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Do we give to charities at Christmas for the wrong reasons?
'TIS THE SEASON for giving. And giving.Charities focus heavily on Christmas, making more money in the couple of months leading up to it than at any other time of year.We give money at the cash registe...
Dec 09, 2023
PETERS: Multi-use pathways are a form of harm reduction and we should build more
THE ARMCHAIR MAYOR ARGUED THIS WEEK that multi-use pathways will present more problems than solutions in the future, thanks to the proliferation of hybrid transportation options in our community.Mel i...
Dec 08, 2023
COLLINS: Government slow to react to highway fatalities
LAST WEEKEND, I was shocked to receive a phone call from my sister, advising me that a couple we knew had been killed that morning when their vehicle had collided with a commercial truck on Highway 5 ...
Dec 08, 2023
SOUND OFF: NDP's cancer care crisis putting people at risk
CANCER CARE HAS BEEN A SENSITIVE TOPIC in Kamloops for quite some time now - a trail of broken promises that leads right back to the current NDP government. However, the NDP's failure to deliver cance...
Dec 07, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Multi-use pathways are becoming dangerous and obsolete
MULTI-USE PATHWAYS seemed like such a good idea - pedestrians and cyclists happily co-existing, safely separated from vehicles.But times have changed. If you walk the Rivers Trail you know you have to...
Dec 07, 2023
SOUND OFF: Combatting gender-based violence
ON NOVEMBER 25, our government honoured the UN-recognized International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and British Columbia launched the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Vi...
Dec 06, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Why job cuts at the CBC are a bad thing for the country
'DEFUND THE CBC' has been a popular sentiment among some people, especially recently. Those people are probably happy this week because the CBC is defunding itself.Yes, CBC and Radio-Canada will cut 6...
Dec 06, 2023
