Ajax

ROTHENBURGER – Drug overdoses need action but so does the Ajax mine

December 16, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A NATIONAL EMERGENCY on drug overdoses will be declared if the powers in Ottawa listen to Kamloops City council. The council received a [Continue]

LETTER – KAPA has been busy on mining issues during the past two years

January 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

Re: Five Important Things Kamloops Must Get Done In 2020 (ArmchairMayor.ca, Dec. 28, 2019) Here is KAPA’s input to the provincial government since 2018: YES WE HAVE [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Five important things Kamloops must get done in 2020

December 28, 2019 // 4 Comments

NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS have never been much of a thing with me. I tend to make them as easy as possible in order to avoid failure. In 2020, for example, I will vow to pay [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Ajax could happen again unless we change some rules

March 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE AJAX MINE PROJECT may seem like a bad dream from long ago but it could happen again, or something like it, here or elsewhere. If it [Continue]

LETTER – Don’t let better regulations to protect communities fall by the wayside

September 26, 2018 // 1 Comment

Letter to Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver: September 25, 2018 Dear Honourable Mayor Robertson, I’m writing today because I want to draw your attention to comments made [Continue]

COLUMN – Disappointing result on City resolution but that’s democracy

September 15, 2018 // 2 Comments

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD ONE OF THE MANY lessons learned during the sometimes bitter and always divisive six-year experience with the Ajax mine [Continue]

AJAX – City asks for veto power over future mine proposals within 10 km.

February 27, 2018 // 4 Comments

If Kamloops City council gets support from the Union of B.C. Municipalities, future mine proposals within 10 km. of city boundaries could require approval from the City [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Principle of no-mine buffer zone around communities is sound

February 26, 2018 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’VE BEEN READING the reaction on social media to Coun. Dieter Dudy’s proposal to establish a 10-km. buffer zone around [Continue]

AJAX – ‘Prevent all future mining projects within 10 km. of communities’

February 22, 2018 // 4 Comments

Notice of motion by Coun. Dieter Dudy to be discussed at the next meeting of Kamloops City Council: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Southern Interior Local Government [Continue]

LETTER – Kamloops always in a state of readiness to draw battle lines

January 17, 2018 // 1 Comment

Bob Marley wrote: “Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.” Certainly a message Kamloopsians have taken to heart more [Continue]

EDITORIAL – An underground Ajax? Don’t even think about it

January 11, 2018 // 5 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I ADMIRE Coun. Donovan Cavers’ open mind but I find his willingness to consider even for a moment another Ajax [Continue]

McQUARRIE – A good time for Kamloops to start getting serious about jobs

January 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

WITH THE ARRIVAL of the New Year and Ajax now relegated to the news highlight reels of 2017, I can think of no better time for Kamloops to start getting serious about jobs [Continue]

PETERS – There oughta be a study

December 29, 2017 // 0 Comments

Studies get mocked for being expensive make-work projects, but when they’re done well, they lay the basis for the smartest long term decisions 2017 COULD RIGHTLY be [Continue]

EDITORIAL – A dozen of the most important things that happened in 2017

December 28, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger 2017 IS ALMOST over, and quite the year it was. You’ve no doubt got your opinions on the dozen or so most important things [Continue]