Category Archives: Facebook: CFJCToday
NEUSTAETER: Indigenous Day and Canada Day — Why I'm proud to be Canadian
AM I A PROUD TO BE A CANADIAN GIRL? Well, let's see, I:have my own hockey stick (although I don't play hockey)own at least a dozen toquessay "toques"know many facts about the beaver (two sets of eyeli...
Jun 30, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Vernon physiotherapist accused of sex assault facing 10 new charges
The Crown approved 10 new sex assault charges this week in addition to the previous four against 47-year-old Stephen Witvoet.He is accused of sexually assaulting 14 people between 2009 and 2016. The B...
Jun 28, 2019 Stephen Witvoet is facing 14 counts of sexual assault (submitted photo/RCMP)
CHARBONNEAU: Pipeline approval won't help the Liberals
IF THE FEDERAL LIBERALS were as popular as the Trans Mountain pipeline, they would win the upcoming election in a landslide.The problem for the Liberals is that the pipeline is most popular where vote...
Jun 27, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: Let’s make our own decision on Daylight Saving Time
THE PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT'S survey on Daylight Saving Time is online and I recommend you fill it out - it takes only a few minutes to read the background and answer the questions.The backgrounders exp...
Jun 26, 2019 Image Credit: Oleg Dudko / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Shortage of nurse practitioners a familiar story
IF YOU'VE CALLED the primary care clinic recently, chances are you got a voicemail saying you shouldn't expect to get an appointment with a nurse practitioner any time soon.Touted only a couple of yea...
Jun 24, 2019 Image Credit: Manop Phimsit / Dreamstime.com
UPDATE: Coquihalla re-opens after flash storm
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: A flash hail storm on the Coquihalla this afternoon led a pair of crashes when the inclement weather forced a few vehicles off the road. The collisions happened before noon when hai...
Jun 24, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: We’re making things way too easy for our kids
WE'RE RUINING OUR KIDS, turning them into a bunch of confused, pampered wimps.We fight their fights in sports, in their education, in every aspect of their social development. We give them no credit, ...
Jun 22, 2019 Image Credit: Facebook / Lakewood Police Department
CHARBONNEAU: Closure of the Vavenby mill was so predictable
WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED the collapse of B.C. forestry industry 15 years ago? Bob Simpson, that's who. Back then the NDP MLA for Cariboo North was derided by the BC Liberals in the B.C. legislature an...
Jun 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
ROTHENBURGER: How long will today’s Canadians have to say ‘Sorry’?
I'M WONDERING IF WE COULD get a list together of all the things Canada has done wrong and apologize for all of them at once.Canada Day might be a good time to do that. Apparently, our country has a lo...
Jun 19, 2019 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
NEUSTAETER: Dear fathers — we need you
I HAVE FOUND THAT SOMETIMES when people don't know me personally, they assume that I don't like men because I am a self-proclaimed feminist. (Read: I believe in and often speak to the importance of ge...
Jun 16, 2019 Image Credit: creativecommonsstockphotos / Dreamstime.com
