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TNRD – True heat waves are rare but ‘could happen again next summer’

September 16, 2021 // 1 Comment

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD The heat dome of this past summer was a once-in-1,000-year event but don’t expect another thousand years to pass before [Continue]

EDITORIAL – What to do about businesses that won’t use the card

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

I’VE GOT A COUPLE of ideas on how to move things along with the vaccine card. Three days in, the card appears to be working just fine, though there are lots of rumours and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Urgency needed to get a new plan for fighting wildfires in 2022

September 13, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AS SUMMER WANES, the heat waves and devastation of the 2021 wildfire season are already beginning to fade from top of mind, even though [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Tennis, the need for more debates, and remembering 9-11

September 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE FACT THAT so many Canadians spent Thursday night flipping channels between the leaders’ debate and the match featuring tennis phenom Leyla Annie Fernandez at the U.S. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Getting the vaccination card is easy; the hard part comes later

September 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

THERE WILL BE NO SHORTAGE of people signing up for their B.C. COVID-19 vaccination cards, working their way through the application process. After a soft launch of online [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A few questions for those who were protesting this week

September 4, 2021 // 7 Comments

I HAVE QUESTIONS for the anti-vaxxers, reluctant vaxxers and the misinformed who took to the streets this week to exercise their democratic right to protest. The first one [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Tranquille corridor upgrade a good idea but it won’t solve social issues

September 1, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANOTHER TRANQUILLE ROAD store has been broken into, its front door smashed open. Coincidentally, City council discussed a plan yesterday for [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Dreaded words from politicians – ‘let me be perfectly clear’

August 30, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHENEVER WE HEAR the words ‘Let me be perfectly clear’ escape from the mouths of politicians, we’ve come to know that chances are what [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: He barely escaped Lytton inferno, but what’s next?

August 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

ONE OF THE LAST TWO PEOPLE out of Lytton when wildfire destroyed the town June 30 didn’t think he was going to make it. Now, he lives in a motor inn in Abbotsford anxiously [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘Vaccine card’ inconvenient but will save the economy

August 25, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WONDER IF those folks who are hollering indignantly about B.C.’s new vaccination card ever stop to think about the alternative. Refuse [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We in Kamloops should be mad as hell about Afghanistan

August 23, 2021 // 6 Comments

IT’S VERY SELDOM that I write about events happening on the other side of the world but the Afghanistan fiasco hits close to the heart and closer to home than we might [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Frontline firefighters are the heroes of this terrible summer

August 21, 2021 // 0 Comments

FIGHTING WILDFIRES is one of the toughest jobs on earth. You won’t find it on those lists of “worst jobs” that include the likes of roadkill collector and portable [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Horgan needs to see and be seen during wildfire crisis

August 18, 2021 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FEELING IGNORED is nothing new for the B.C. Interior but it would be nice if the provincial government would make more of an effort to show [Continue]

EDITORIAL: Let’s put an end to opportunistic snap elections

August 16, 2021 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FOR A COUNTRY so committed to democracy, we aren’t real crazy about federal elections. It’s not that we don’t like voting — though [Continue]