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ROTHENBURGER – Is the end of summer on the horizon, or the end of days?

August 5, 2017 // 5 Comments

IS THE END of summer on the horizon, or the end of days? It feels more like the latter. We’ve come to commonly apply the term “Apocalypse” to wildfire season. A sense [Continue]

WILDFIRES – Skeetchestn evacuated, state of emergency extended again

August 4, 2017 // 1 Comment

Skeetchestn Indian Band residents were heading for Kamloops today (Aug. 4, 2017) to join other evacuees fleeing wildfires. Chief Ron Ignace and council signed the evacuation [Continue]

McGARVEY – Can Alberta’s new right make room for progressives?

August 4, 2017 // 0 Comments

EDMONTON, Alta. – Have the big changes in Alberta’s conservative movement united the right or will it shatter it? Members of Alberta’s two right-of-centre parties, the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Raw nerves become exposed during times of great stress

August 4, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger DURING TIMES of crisis, it’s natural for our sensitivities to be heightened. It wasn’t surprising, then, to receive an [Continue]

POLICE – Evacuee charged with arson, mischief after hotel room trashed

August 3, 2017 // 1 Comment

An evacuee from Williams Lake has been charged with arson and mischief after a Kamloops hotel room was damaged. RCMP were called to a disturbance at a Columbia Street hotel [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How I learned to like the monarchy, and the Commonwealth

August 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

AS A 10-year-old, I was eager to see Princess Elizabeth when she visited Edmonton in 1951; a year before she became Queen. My parents and I lined the street along with [Continue]