Editorials

EDITORIAL – Renting isn’t the madcap time of life Wilkinson thinks it is

March 4, 2019 // 1 Comment

A editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I REMEMBER RENTING when I was a student. And when I got my first full-time job. And my second, and my third. To borrow a phrase from B.C. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Snap election the only way to sort out Wilson-Raybould affair

February 28, 2019 // 14 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AFTER THE HOURS-LONG TESTIMONY of former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on Wednesday, there’s a clear path to getting the country [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Pink Shirt Day is about kindness, not about marketing

February 27, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’M WEARING a pink tie today. OK, it’s Pink ‘Shirt’ Day but that’s become a slight misnomer — the idea is that we all wear [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mandatory measles vaccinations shouldn’t be ruled out

February 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. NEW CASES OF MEASLES seem to come up every day in B.C. and, while not quite an epidemic yet, it’s raising new concerns about a disease [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The whole truth and nothing but the truth? Probably not

February 25, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE TRUTH WILL PREVAIL when former justice minister and attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould testifies before the parliamentary justice [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Slimming down Sister City exchange program is a good move

February 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FOR CLOSE TO THREE DECADES, Kamloops has enjoyed a Sister City relationship with Uji, a city near Kyoto in Japan. Civic delegations have [Continue]