Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Short-term rentals bill won’t fix housing but it will help
THE HOUSING SHORTAGE will become a little less serious after the provincial government introduced new legislation on short-term rentals yesterday (Monday).According to Premier David Eby and Housing Mi...
Oct 17, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Withholding local taxes for ER closures just might get something done
RURAL LIVING has many advantages but easy access to health care isn't one of them.By rural living, I include smaller communities such as Ashcroft, Merritt, Barriere and Clearwater. Their populations m...
Oct 16, 2023
COLLINS: Tread carefully when planning affordable housing
HAVING COME UNDER THE EYE of Big Brother Eby in Victoria, Kamloops must now come up with some 4,000 units of housing, because we're one of the "bad boys" in the province who haven't done enough to pro...
Oct 15, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: If you liked council’s first year, just imagine the next three
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, it's been a year since the civic election. On Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, voters went to the polls to choose who would run Kamloops for the coming four years.Forgive them - they knew n...
Oct 14, 2023
PETERS: No end in sight to the horrific cycle of killing in the Middle East
BACK IN MY UNIVERSITY YEARS, I had a professor who had returned to teach in Canada after spending years in Israel and the West Bank, working for a relief organization.I remember vividly someone asking...
Oct 13, 2023
COLLINS: Did we ever see this coming?
THIS TIME ONE YEAR AGO, those of us who were actually interested in our city's future and were planning to vote were thinking what might happen two days hence. Who would be our mayor with Ken Christia...
Oct 13, 2023
SOUND OFF: Time for a break from the NDP's middle class squeeze
IT'S DIFFICULT TO DESCRIBE the stress that British Columbians feel right now in the face of a constantly worsening affordability crisis. More people than ever are struggling to make ends meet, as the ...
Oct 12, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Five years later, dire consequences of legal weed haven’t happened
IT'S BEEN FIVE YEARS - actually, five years less a week - since recreational cannabis was legalized in Canada. Have you noticed the difference?Canada was the second country in the world to legalize it...
Oct 12, 2023
SOUND OFF: New action to modernize our approach to emergency management
YEAR AFTER YEAR, climate- and weather-related emergencies have increased in severity, with people in our province facing unprecedented floods, landslides and extreme wildfire seasons. The safety and r...
Oct 11, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Sometimes, one side is right and the other is indisputably wrong
ONE OF THE BEST comments on public reaction to the terrible attack on Israel by Hamas came from Canada's UN ambassador Bob Rae in the first hours after it was launched.Rae, surely one of the most cand...
Oct 11, 2023
