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EDITORIAL – National swooning over Toronto Raptors is a bit much

June 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HOW ABOUT THOSE RAPTORS? Monday’s Raptors parade in Toronto, and the wall-to-wall, over-the-top media coverage and national swooning was [Continue]

LETTER – Who do we charge, convict and imprison for Canadian genocide?

June 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

It should not be surprising that our eagerness to have our national character identified as “genocidal” has raised unavoidable consequences and problems requiring [Continue]

JOHNSON – Let’s do the performing arts centre the right way this time

June 17, 2019 // 5 Comments

By DAVID JOHNSON SO THE NEWE PROPOSAL for a Kamloops Performing Arts Centre has started up, and right off the bat, misinformation abounds and commenters online are running [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Blue Dot request will test City council’s green commitment

June 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE’LL SEE HOW COMMITTED Kamloops City council is to the environment today (June 18, 2010) when a seemingly routine request for a [Continue]

STONE – It’s time John Horgan stepped up for B.C.’s forest industry

June 17, 2019 // 6 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson BRITISH COLUMBIA’S FORESTRY INDUSTRY is in crisis as mills close and job losses mount due to John Horgan and the NDP’s [Continue]

KNOX – When 400 rioting Canadian soldiers killed a British policeman

June 16, 2019 // 2 Comments

HERE’S SOMETHING they didn’t teach you in history class: the time 400 rioting Canadian soldiers killed a British bobby while trying to bust some buddies out of jail. [Continue]

PETERS – Elected officials can’t separate their private and public personas online

June 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

PEOPLE CURSE OTHERS OUT and resort to abuse on social media. That’s no surprise.When it’s a city councillor doing the cussing, though, it’s worth some scrutiny.Kamloops [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Invisible council has to put up its hand for PAC to have a chance

June 13, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I HOPE THE ‘HANDS OFF’ STRATEGY City Hall seems to be taking on the performing arts centre works but I’m not so sure it will. The idea [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Please tell us killing the black bear is a last resort

June 12, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FAR BE IT FROM ME to tell conservation officers how to do their job but I’ll do it anyway. There’s a broken trust between COs and [Continue]

BEPPLE – Why all school-aged students should get free rides on City buses

June 12, 2019 // 3 Comments

SHOULD KAMLOOPS’ SENIORS ride transit buses for free during non-peak hours? That’s what was debated by council at Tuesday’s (June 11, 2019) meeting. The [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Canadians divided over changing indigenous team names

June 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

Three-in-ten find ‘Edmonton Eskimos’ offensive, as CFL team considers future of 70-year-old name By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE June 12, 2019 – Honouring cultural traditions [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Federal plastics ban good news for the environment

June 11, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF WE TAKE THE POLITICS out of reaction to Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he’ll ban single-use plastics by 2021 if he’s [Continue]

GINTA – Yes, we can do without (most) single-use plastics

June 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

I CANNOT TELL YOU how many times I wished that Styrofoam food containers would disappear. Call it a pet peeve but it goes beyond that. They leach harmful (albeit slow-acting [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Spotlight needed on runaway indigenous teens

June 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANOTHER TEENAGER WENT MISSING on the weekend. Fifteen years old, 5 ft. 5 inches tall, 110 pounds, brown eyes and hair, indigenous female. [Continue]