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EDITORIAL – Rural communities being left in the dark on connectivity issue

July 14, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. RURAL CONNECTIVITY is the pits. On that score, Kamloops-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo is absolutely correct. Caputo has fired off a letter to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The irony of the premiers meeting as Clearwater hospital closes again

July 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIRTEEN PREMIERS wrapped up two days of meetings yesterday. As expected, health care was the big agenda item. Coincidentally, as the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why would anybody want to be a politician these days?

July 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S A TERRIBLE TIME to be a politician. Japan’s longest serving prime minister was assassinated a few days ago. A coward with a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Rogers outage is about a lot more than a little inconvenience

July 11, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GOT AN APOLOGY from Rogers president and CEO Tony Staffieri in my inbox Sunday morning. “As you know,” he wrote, “we experienced a [Continue]

COLLINS – Do we really understand reconciliation?

July 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

THIS WAS A TOUGH COMMENTARY TO WRITE. I have long been an advocate for minority rights, especially those of Indigenous peoples. I am supportive of almost all of their efforts [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – All together now – ‘We’re Number 18, we’re Number 18!’

July 9, 2022 // 1 Comment

SEEING OURSELVES as others see us can be either reaffirming or disconcerting, depending. So what are we to make of the latest survey that pegs Kamloops as Number 18 on the [Continue]