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EDITORIAL – We should get rid of our free-spending governors-general

March 14, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GOVERNOR-GENERAL Mary Simon has been awarded a salary boost of $11,200 for 2024, bringing her annual paycheque to $362,800. She doesn’t [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It was a good day around the City council table for a change

March 13, 2024 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT WAS A GOOD DAY at Kamloops City council yesterday. It’s hard to know where to begin but let’s start with the plan for a cleanup of [Continue]

UKRAINE – Is NATO to blame for the Russo-Ukrainian war? It’s complicated

March 11, 2024 // 8 Comments

By MARK EDELE The University of Melbourne A YEAR AFTER Russia’s all-out attack against its neighbour on February 24 2022, volumes trying to explain the conflict to the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Thankfully, pomposity and politics were almost gone from Oscars

March 11, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS IT EVEN POSSIBLE that Sunday night’s Academy Awards were finished on time, were devoid of endless rambling acceptance speeches and [Continue]

JOHNSON – The stress of buying concert tickets these days

March 11, 2024 // 1 Comment

OMG … OMG … OMG. No … that’s not excitement of getting the tickets, well it is, but its also the anxiety ridden stress over the process of procuring [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Battle for Kamloops Centre riding bound to be contentious

March 9, 2024 // 2 Comments

THE MAN WHO THINKS non-profit agencies that criticize City council should be barred from receiving grant funding wants to be the next MLA for Kamloops Centre. Bill Sarai [Continue]