Opinion

ROTHENBURGER – The fruits and veggies theory of proportional representation

October 10, 2016 // 10 Comments

I first published this column on May 2, 2009 in The Kamloops Daily News with respect to the B.C. referendum on the Single Transferable Vote. I believe it still has relevance [Continue]

KNOX – Don’t throw beer cans, but go easy with the digital pitchforks

October 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

HERE’S WHAT I’m grateful for at Thanksgiving: No one saw me chuck my beer can at that Baltimore Oriole in Toronto. OK. I can joke. I’m not the one who, after [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Thank you, Lord, for giving us more places to buy $5 coffee and $40 wine

October 8, 2016 // 3 Comments

BIG, BIG WEEK for news in the ‘Loops. I’m not talking about Terry Lake’s four-point plan to bring in more doctors. Nor even about the man on the roof in the 300-400 [Continue]

HARRISON – KGHM should tell City to pound sand

October 7, 2016 // 4 Comments

POUND SAND. Get lost! Perhaps in a more politically correct way, this is what the people at KGHM Ajax ought to be telling Kamloops Council. Of course the mine wants to do [Continue]

FORSETH – The strengths and weaknesses of B.C.’s political parties

October 6, 2016 // 3 Comments

A COUPLE of days ago a fellow former B.C. Conservative posed a question(s) to me regarding the organizational strengths and weaknesses of each of the four political parties [Continue]

HARRISON – ‘Jim, your comments couldn’t be further from the truth’

October 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

A guest editorial today from Todd Hauptman of Kamloops who writes to say: RADIO NL’s Jim Harrison said in a column this week pride parades are no longer needed. Jim, [Continue]