Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – Actions will speak louder than words in City-TteS agreement

March 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE RELATIONSHIP between the City of Kamloops and the Tk’emlups te Secwepemc is often heralded as the way things should work between [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Do we have to respect both the person and the religion?

March 18, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DOES RESPECTING PEOPLE mean we also have to respect their religious beliefs? That important question has been raised in a discussion on [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The world decides not to play the killer’s game

March 16, 2019 // 2 Comments

AS SURELY AS IF by referendum in every country, in every city and every house on every street and country road, the world made a decision on Friday. It was the right [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Getting behind better seating at performing arts venues

March 14, 2019 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I MAY BE GETTING AHEAD of myself on this one but I have an early request for the new performing arts centre — if it ever gets off the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – ‘Wolf whacking’ and other wars on predators should be banned

March 13, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE HUMANS ARE VERY CREATIVE in coming up with new ways to wage war on the other species that inhabit planet Earth alongside us. There’s an [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How much money is being wasted on Victoria Street West project?

March 12, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GET READY TO PRACTICE your zipper merge. Remember 2015, when the Overlanders Bridge was being rehabilitated and we spent eight months [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Re-opening Westsyde elementary should be a no-brainer

March 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES for School District 73 will make a million-dollar decision tonight — whether or not to re-open Westsyde [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’ve got to talk about suicide, but how do we do it?

March 9, 2019 // 9 Comments

A YEAR AGO on Thursday, my daughter Edyn killed herself. She was 38. A year before that, in the same month, her son, my grandson Mykel, killed himself. He was 16. We need to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – If Justin Trudeau goes, who’s going to run the country?

March 7, 2019 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THE THINGS that bothers me about the country’s current troubles is the prospect of Andrew Scheer as prime minister. There’s scant [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Butts testimony presents very different picture of JWR affair

March 6, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE RUMBLE IN OTTAWA is now officially a he said-she said situation. Former principal secretary Gerald Butts gave his side of the story [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The risks of consuming marijuana vs. upsizing your fries

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE NORMALIZATION OF CANNABIS has a long way to go yet and part of the process is getting over our old fears about the weed. Some of those [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Ajax could happen again unless we change some rules

March 5, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE AJAX MINE PROJECT may seem like a bad dream from long ago but it could happen again, or something like it, here or elsewhere. If it [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Renting isn’t the madcap time of life Wilkinson thinks it is

March 4, 2019 // 1 Comment

A editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I REMEMBER RENTING when I was a student. And when I got my first full-time job. And my second, and my third. To borrow a phrase from B.C. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – One word scrawled on page 1 renders verdict in JWR case

March 2, 2019 // 9 Comments

THE NEWSPAPER IN THE COFFEE SHOP Friday morning said all there is to know about the scandal involving former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. The story was, of course, [Continue]