Editorials

EDITORIAL – Forcing more cars onto street won’t solve housing shortage

June 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

FROM SHIPPING CONTAINERS to allowing multi-family development in commercial areas, it was an action-packed committee-of-the-whole meeting yesterday. That’s the meeting [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It will be very easy to blow the Four Step COVID recovery plan

May 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BIG COVID ANNOUNCEMENT yesterday has brought a lot less cheering than I expected. After all, restrictions are going to ease up [Continue]

EDITORIAL: City council blew it by springing Riverside Park plan on public

May 19, 2021 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PUBLIC CONSULTATION is a great aspiration for public bodies but Kamloops City council failed the test yesterday on the issue of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Fast-food workers need our understanding during COVID

May 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS are tough places to work these days. One would think we’d have worked out our angst over mask wearing by now. Yet incidents of confrontation occur [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Bungled messaging on AstraZeneca will hurt vaccine rollout

May 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CANADIANS CAN BE FORGIVEN for feeling exasperated over the advice they’re getting on COVID-19 vaccines. The story is a familiar one. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – New travel restrictions easy to break, easy to follow

April 28, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BARK OF TRAVEL RESTRICTIONS in B.C. is a lot worse than their bite.Take camping, for example. British Columbians must go camping in [Continue]