Armchair Archives

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]