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August 14, 2020 in Charbonneau // CHARBONNEAU – Tearing down and vandalizing statues is barbaric
August 14, 2020 in Feedback // LETTER – Outdoor skating rink is a nice-to-have frill that should be postponed
August 13, 2020 in Editorials // EDITORIAL – Pandemic has taught us that sports are actually important

Armchair Archives

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – City’s heritage is being turned into brick fireplaces

July 4, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Armchair Mayor is on staycay this week. In place of his usual editorials and columns we present some blasts from the past. The following column was originally published [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Tales of woe from the land of the shifting soils

July 2, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Armchair Mayor is on staycay this week. In place of his usual daily editorials and column, we offer blasts from the past. The following column was originally published [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Things to know about ourselves on Canada Day

July 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Armchair Mayor is on staycay this week. In place of his usual daily editorials and column, we offer blasts from the past. The following column was originally published [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Downtown core may have no choice on Sunday opening

June 30, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Armchair Mayor is on staycay this week. In place of his usual daily editorials and column, we offer blasts from the past. The following column was originally published [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – It’s time to say goodbye to the trees at RIH

June 29, 2020 // 0 Comments

The Armchair Mayor is on staycay this week. In place of his usual daily editorials and column, we offer blasts from the past. The following column was originally published [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – There’s a middle ground on publishing killers’ names

June 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

This editorial was originally posted on June 1, 2014. A WEEK AGO, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six people in a town in California, then killed himself. Another mass [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Heritage Commission ignored out of existence

October 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

The following column was originally published April 20, 2019. The Kamloops Heritage Commission was a different group than the Kamloops Heritage Society that operates St. [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Should parents ask their kids to take sides?

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

A reminder of what things were like during the B.C. teachers’ strike of 2014. The following editorial by Mel Rothenburger was published on ArmchairMayor.ca on Sept. 2, [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Traffic plan should return Seymour to two-way

August 16, 2019 // 1 Comment

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger first published May 24, 2018. KAMLOOPS CITY HALL is in the last days of its public-input phase for a new transportation [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – B.C. Day sure seemed like a good idea at the time

August 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

The following column was first posted on Aug. 3, 2014. THIS IS THE B.C. DAY long weekend. It’s B.C. Day on Monday, though nobody knows why. Mostly, it seemed like a good [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The stuff the school board talks about in secret

March 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

This column was originally published in the Kamloops News on March 1, 1978: THIS WEEK WAS THE FIRST in which local news media received in advance the background [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The loneliness of the civic-election candidate

October 19, 2018 // 0 Comments

Campaigning is stressful, and there’s no more stressful time than the home stretch. At the same time, there’s a sort of relief that it will soon be over. I wrote [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Why Good Samaritans are an endangered breed

October 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

This column was originally posed on Oct. 1, 2010. IF YOU SAW SOMEONE in obvious distress, would you stop to help? Or would you pass by? Many people would stop. Most [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – History shows Kamloops voters don’t like big changes

September 21, 2018 // 0 Comments

The following excerpt is from a column published Nov. 15, 2008 in The Kamloops Daily News. Ten years later, the situation now isn’t an exact comparison to what it was [Continue]