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ROTHENBURGER: City council needs wisdom of Solomon on tax ratios

May 15, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE ANNUAL DANCE between Domtar and the City is underway. For the past eight or nine years, the pulp mill has been demanding a better deal [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canada’s athletes should refuse to compete against China

May 14, 2019 // 3 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I CAUGHT A FEW ENDS of curling on TV last weekend. It was an international competition called the Curling World Cup Grand [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Afternoon council meetings win the day over evenings

May 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE IDEA OF HOLDING regular Kamloops City council meetings in the evening instead of afternoon was worth looking at but a staff report on [Continue]

KNOX – Turns out our Canadian accent is one of the sexiest in the world

May 12, 2019 // 1 Comment

SHE NUZZLED MY EAR: “Say ‘Roll up the rim to win.’ ” I shook her off. “Charlize, baby, I told you it’s over. She kept going. “Now do the Friendly Giant: [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – New intersection speed cameras don’t go far enough

May 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

ONCE AGAIN, KAMLOOPS has been left out. Thirty-five B.C. intersections will be monitored with radar cameras to catch drivers who speed through. None will be in Kamloops. The [Continue]

PETERS – Green Party a wasted vote no longer

May 11, 2019 // 2 Comments

IT WASN’T LONG AGO that the Green Party was generally believed to be a place reserved for the strictest of idealogues, and otherwise a place to waste your vote. People [Continue]