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ROTHENBURGER: The eternal question – what should be taught in school?

September 24, 2022 // 4 Comments

I LEARNED A LOT of useless stuff (or, as Paul Simon put it, “crap”) in high school. More accurately, my teachers tried to teach me; sometimes I didn’t learn much of it. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Candidates have to do better at keeping signs cleaned up

September 22, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CIVIC ELECTION CANDIDATES have to do better at cleaning up their trashed and broken signs. Signs get vandalized in every election at every [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Common sense forgotten in City council’s curling club decision

September 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD is important in business but sometimes it can be a little too level. For example, have you ever decided to go to the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Queen’s funeral was spectacular, and it proved something

September 20, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF YOU MISSED the Queen’s funeral yesterday, you should kick yourself. Not just because she [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Is cutting off the ‘lolly’ a way of saying NDP is out of ideas?

September 17, 2022 // 1 Comment

LOWERING EXPECTATIONS seems to be the strategy of the John Horgan government this week. He chose the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler to do it. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Running for two elected jobs at the same time should be banned

September 15, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LOTS OF FAMILIAR FACES will be on the civic-election campaign trail, and a lot of new ones, too. In some cases, it adds up to a 50 per cent [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Day of Mourning should have been declared a full stat

September 14, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MONDAY WILL BE a national holiday to mark the Queen’s funeral. Not everybody thinks it’s a good idea and not everybody will get the day [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Public safety must start coming first in parole board decisions

September 13, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE system is arguably the most progressive in the world but that’s not always a good thing. Our Canadian philosophy is [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What do the Poilievre Conservatives actually stand for?

September 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE with a capital ‘C’ these days? Is it the one personified by Pierre Poilievre during the campaign for the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Get rid of the monarchy? We may as well get rid of hockey

September 10, 2022 // 1 Comment

‘I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all [Continue]

ELECTION 2022 – The loneliness (and stress) of the civic election candidate

September 9, 2022 // 0 Comments

This is nomination deadline day for local-government elections in B.C. I wrote the following column in 2014 as the election campaign wrapped up and I was reflecting on my [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City’s $25,000 study is a slap in the face to our seniors

September 8, 2022 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S NOT EASY getting old; ask any senior. The City of Kamloops wants to find out what’s needed to make life better for the older [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Paying for inflation with our credit cards will end badly

September 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HAD COFFEE with a friend yesterday. Perhaps feeling a bit rebellious, I tipped the barista only 18 per cent, down from the 20 I was [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Back to school means the end of summer vacation from COVID

September 6, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S BACK TO SCHOOL and that means a lot of things. For many, it means the end of summer fun. Normally, the biggest thing we have to worry [Continue]