Category Archives: Column
ROTHENBURGER: Fining candidate for omission on election sign is over-reach
ELECTIONS RULES are in place for good reason - they make sure candidates are playing fair.Civic politicians are among those who have to adhere to a complicated set of regulations on what they're allow...
Oct 03, 2023
COLLINS: Enough already! Let's focus on what's important
NOT TO BELITTLE THE TERRIBLE GAFFE last week by ex-House Speaker Anthony Rota, but it's time to move on. We have far more important things to discuss. Despite the humiliation, few Canadians are worrie...
Oct 01, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Latest council investigation a strange prelude to bringing in a referee
ON THE SAME DAY Coun. Margot Middleton made a motion to ask the B.C. Municipal Affairs Ministry to step in and help council get its act together, councillors retreated behind closed doors to continue ...
Sep 30, 2023
SOUND OFF: NDP spending fails to move the needle on affordability
THE COST OF LIVING - from food to gas to housing - has become a daily topic of conversation in B.C. Everyone recognizes that life is getting more expensive, and everyone is feeling the growing stress ...
Sep 29, 2023
PETERS: By launching an investigation into the mayor's secret phone recordings, Kamloops council is doing its job
IT HAS BEEN ANOTHER remarkable week at Kamloops city hall.In a closed meeting, council launched an investigation into Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson's propensity to secretly record phone conversations with ...
Sep 29, 2023
COLLINS: Artificial intelligence — our friend or enemy?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (or AI) is one of the major issues of our time. Aside from climate change, it can be a major gamechanger in the way we live our lives. Community safety, the drug issues, the co...
Sep 29, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: We think other drivers are terrible but we should look in the mirror
DRIVERS ARE GETTING worse. That's the hardly surprising opinion expressed by Canadians in a new poll.Research Co. released results showing we think drivers in our own towns are worse than they were fi...
Sep 28, 2023
SOUND OFF: Investing in a bright future for rural B.C.
WE LIVE IN RURAL PLACES because we love them - whether it's the sense of genuine community with our neighbours, the opportunities in the resource economy and for entrepreneurs, embedding ourselves in ...
Sep 27, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: How a standing O in Parliament has humiliated our entire country
THE ROAD TO HELL is paved with good intentions. Nobody knows it better right now than Anthony Rota.As House Speaker he presided over the welcome for Volodomyr Zelensky when the Ukrainian president spo...
Sep 27, 2023
SOUND OFF: When one side spouts hate and conspiracies, how can there be common ground?
A RESPONSE TO ARMCHAIR MAYOR Mel Rothenburger, regarding "finding common ground" with anti SOGI protesters.As someone who attended both the Kamloops Pride Drag Queen Reading Hour counter protest and S...
Sep 26, 2023
