Category Archives: Column
SOUND OFF: Building as we grow
BRITISH COLUMBIA IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE TO LIVE and communities across the province are growing every year, including in my own riding of Langford-Juan de Fuca. An important part of supporting growth is...
Nov 15, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Spending $75,000 for cancer centre ‘advocacy’ is a total waste
GOVERNMENTS ARE GOOD at wasting money. We know that.Take, for example, a Thompson Regional Hospital District decision to pay $75,000 to a Toronto consulting firm named Santis Health to work for 10 mon...
Nov 15, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Any talk of who’s to blame for Gaza must include Oct. 7
I WASN'T SURPRISED at some of the reaction to my Remembrance Day column on my recent visit to Auschwitz and the current disturbing rise in antisemitism.Somehow, a nation that was victimized by the mos...
Nov 14, 2023
COLLINS: Veterans who gave their lives would be devastated today
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES in the pursuit of freedom must be wondering what has happened to the people they died for. When John McRae wrote "In Flanders Fields" during World War I, he talked about "th...
Nov 12, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: A visit to Auschwitz and a question — could it happen again?
SATURDAYS ARE BUSY at Auschwitz.Eighty years ago, people came by freight train. Most never left. Now they come by car or bus for a few hours, reservation tickets in hand.Visitors are divided into grou...
Nov 11, 2023
PETERS: Even if demand drops, City of Kamloops should pick up organics weekly throughout the winter
The City of Kamloops has a chicken-and-egg problem with its organics recycling program - which, coincidentally, accepts both chicken and eggs.Many residents didn't know they wanted such a program unti...
Nov 10, 2023
COLLINS: Big Brother is not only watching — he's acting
BIG BROTHER HAS HAD ENOUGH. He has decided those of us who live in his inner sanctum know more than those of us who make up the vast majority of B.C.'s populace. He has decreed that decisions relating...
Nov 10, 2023
SOUND OFF: People left behind as NDP fails to create jobs and grow economy
As B.C.'s cost of living continues to increase, so does the need for family-supporting jobs. British Columbians want to be able to find good jobs that do more than help them scrape by. They want to be...
Nov 09, 2023
SOUND OFF: Giving childcare professionals a boost
THERE IS NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT than making sure our children are cared for. A part of making sure that British Columbians have quality child care is hiring qualified professionals, who treat our kids...
Nov 08, 2023
COLLINS: Buffy Sainte-Marie — saint or sinner?
I'VE HAD A TOUGH TIME this past week coming to grips with the sad case of Buffy Sainte-Marie. Sainte-Marie is under fire from a number of directions following an edition of CBC's Fifth Estate at the e...
Nov 07, 2023
