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EDITORIAL – Why prime ministers shouldn’t have to be fluent in French

February 4, 2020 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SO FAR, PETER MACKAY’S FRENCH is the biggest issue to come up in the federal Conservative leadership “race.” Thank goodness there’s [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Let’s not make too much of the headdress on Overlanders statue

February 3, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOME PRANKSTER put a feathered headdress on Augustus Schubert’s head Friday. By Saturday morning the wind had blown it off old Gus’s [Continue]

FEATURED COMMENT – North Shore is ignored but she’s proud to live there

February 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

Re: North Shore continues to struggle with weak-sister image We aren’t the weak sister, Mel, we barely qualify as a distant relative when it comes to city hall. My [Continue]

KNOX – Global epidemic fears trump the mess in the mirror

February 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

SNEEZING, HACKING sweating like a TV evangelist, hurtin’ like a country song. “I think I’m dying,” I told her. “I’ve got Wuhan coronavirus.” “Wuhan!” she [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – North Shore still struggles with weak-sister image

February 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

TWO EVENTS THIS WEEK highlight the seemingly rigid dichotomy between the South Shore and the North Shore. A major new commercial development called The Kamloops Hive was [Continue]

PETERS – Cities, like individuals, can support both sports and the arts

February 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT, as the arts centre debate heats up in Kamloops, the comparison to sports facilities is made. We are the Tournament Capital of Canada, after all, so we [Continue]