Category Archives: Column
COLLINS: The tale of the leaky city
A FAMOUS FIGURE IS NOW ON SCENE. Sherlock Hamer-Jackson is on a crusade to patch up the leaks at city hall. It might be his biggest challenge ever. The detective, also the mayor of the burgh of Kamloo...
Oct 22, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Why would anybody in their right mind go into journalism?
STOP ME IF YOU'VE heard this one but, in 1968, I was broke, out of a job, and had a young family to support.I'd been fired from a Prince George newspaper after it published a photo that showed a case ...
Oct 21, 2023
PETERS: Strategic Plan the key to a productive term for this Kamloops mayor and council
IF YOU'VE EVER WORKED in a fractious workplace with a coworker or two you can't stand, you know there's only one tried and true way to keep your sanity - and that's to take pride in your work.It's the...
Oct 20, 2023
COLLINS: Quit whining, get your shot — and wear the damn mask
SORRY, BUT THERE'S no easier way to put this.With COVID rearing its ugly head again, and mask mandates coming back into prominence, we will, if we haven't already, see increased protests from those "a...
Oct 20, 2023
SOUND OFF: Green policies will have homeowners seeing red
LIKE 99.99 PER CENT OF PEOPLE living on Earth, I want a clean and healthy environment for my children to grow up in. However, I also recognize that idealistic green policies can sometimes have an unne...
Oct 19, 2023
SOUND OFF: NDP fall short on housing affordability
LIFE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE UNAFFORDABLE in British Columbia. Every visit to the grocery store is accompanied by the shock of rising prices, and every trip to the gas station gets more painful as prices ...
Oct 19, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: CBC won’t say so, but what Hamas did in Israel was terrorism
THE FOG OF WAR obscures fact and fiction. A hospital is bombed. Was it deliberate, a mistake, or a self-inflicted tragedy?The very words we use to describe what's going on in Israel and Gaza become co...
Oct 19, 2023
SOUND OFF: Former Merritt doctor laments the decline of health care in the community
MY NAME IS ROBERT (BOB) HOLMES and I have lived in the Nicola Valley (Nlaka'pamux Territory) for the past 48 years. I arrived in Canada in March 1966 with my wife and three children as a trained and q...
Oct 18, 2023
SOUND OFF: Making it easier to fill high-demand jobs
BRITISH COLUMBIA IS GROWING and people are coming from around the world to live in our beautiful province. With a growing population comes a need for more skilled professionals. Many people who come t...
Oct 18, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: It’s hard to imagine Kamloops without a print newspaper
A TOWN WITHOUT A NEWSPAPER is a sad thing to see. We'll get a first-hand view of it after Kamloops This Week publishes its last edition next Wednesday.Yesterday's announcement of the closure was a sho...
Oct 18, 2023
