Category Archives: Column
COLLINS: Kamloops cancer facility still has a long way to go
SORRY IF I'M NOT OVERLY EXCITED about a story from the TNRD a week ago that there is a budget item to look at a business plan for a new cancer clinic in Kamloops. While I share in the excitement that ...
Jan 27, 2023
SOUND OFF: Restoring an important gateway to our stories
I'M PROUD TO REPRESENT THE RIDING OF FRASER-NICOLA, which features a rich history and a number of important and unique heritage sites. One lesser-known historic site can be found in the southernmost p...
Jan 26, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Speeding fines should be based on how much money we make
NOW HERE'S AN IDEA that might make at least some people smarten up on our highways - instead of handing out the same fines to everybody who speeds, set the fines according to how much people make.Afte...
Jan 26, 2023
SOUND OFF: Creating good jobs for strong rural communities
NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN B.C., from big cities to small towns, the most important part of our economy is the people. As the Parliamentary Secretary for Forests and MLA for Nanaimo-North Cowichan, I'...
Jan 25, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Sensors will do nothing to resolve the safety issues on Highway 5A
IT'S HARD TO IMAGINE how installing sensors on Highway 5A a few miles north of Merritt to monitor the weight and size of transport trucks will do anything for safety.The provincial government, though,...
Jan 25, 2023
HUNTER: Tournament Capital means more than sports
WE WEREN'T A HUGE SPORTS-CENTRIC FAMILY but most of us played a team sport at some point. I played soccer and volleyball, my sister and I both played softball, one of my brothers played hockey, and at...
Jan 24, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: Let’s call parking fees what they really are – a money maker for City Hall
EVERY TIME City Hall brings up the issue of losing revenue from parking in downtown Kamloops I wonder about the oft-stated rationale for charging people to park their cars.Supposedly, parking fees hav...
Jan 24, 2023
ROTHENBURGER: What’s the best way to keep Ryan Shtuka’s name in front of us?
WHEN WE LOSE loved ones, we want to memorialize them. We find many ways to do it: headstones on their gravesites, scholarships in their name, roadside memorials. The more famous often get streets, ins...
Jan 23, 2023
COLLINS: NDP needs a new name
THE LIBERALS HAVE BECOME the B.C. United Party. A rebranding as it were, to prevent confusion between this party and the federal Liberal Party, to show that the provincial party is its own entity. It ...
Jan 22, 2023
SOUND OFF: Investigation narrative woven by TRU, accepted by Rothenburger must be challenged
RESPONDING TO MEL ROTHENBURGER, the Armchair Mayor's opinion piece that summed up the TRU investigation as, "some allegations against one of them were substantiated, none of them against the other was...
Jan 21, 2023
