Whenever I’m on vacation I get a chance to view the media — especially this newspaper — from a different perspective. Namely, that of the consumer rather than the [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor I read with interest this week that the Amalgamated Transit Union in Gatineau wants the transit service there to ban passengers from [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor “You got me into this,” Henry Pejril joked at a Western Canada Summer Games do this week. Pejril, who’s president of the Games, [Continue]
By MEL ROTHENBURGER/ The Armchair Mayor “What can I do for you?” I asked the gentleman in our front lobby. “I am the archangel Michael,” he said by way of [Continue]
City council members got an email the other day, one I doubt they were smiling about as they read it. The source was Chris Ortner, president of the Kamloops Voters Society. [Continue]
I don’t get people who spit in public. There’s nothing much that’s more disgusting than hearing a big hork followed by a loud pitoo when you’re [Continue]