Armchair Mayor

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

September 24, 2022 // 6 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]

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]

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]

ROTHENBURGER — Good voices being lost at Kamloops City council table

September 3, 2022 // 2 Comments

CHANGE IS COMING to Kamloops City council — more than half the current office-holders will be gone after the Oct. 15 civic election. Folks who have been crying “Throw the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Lisa LaFlamme, the media and drawing our own conclusions

August 20, 2022 // 1 Comment

MOST EVENINGS for the past several years, our TV set has been tuned to the CTV National News with Lisa LaFlamme (but not before the local news, of course). LaFlamme is, or [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Warning signs are everywhere, and we should heed them

August 13, 2022 // 2 Comments

SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE. Literally. I mean the physical ones, the kind we can read. We rely on them to tell us where to go, where not to go, what to do and…. what not to do. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Kamloops has to up its lobbying game on the cancer clinic

August 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

A FULL-SERVICE CANCER CLINIC is in the works for Kamloops somewhere within the books of the provincial NDP government but it might be a long way off. Premier John Horgan [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The Doctrine of Discovery isn’t as clear-cut as it seems

July 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

AFTER A VISIT of almost a week, Pope Francis boarded a plane yesterday to return home from Canada. It was, despite critics who managed to find fault with his words day after [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: The pope’s apology and the question of unmarked graves

July 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

POPE FRANCIS FACES A TALL ORDER after he arrives in Canada tomorrow for what he describes as a “penitential pilgrimage.” Job One during his week-long visit is a second [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The long and sad history of homelessness in Kamloops

July 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

IT MIGHT SEEM that homelessness is a relatively new issue in Kamloops but, in fact, it’s been around for more than 125 years — basically since the city was incorporated. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – All together now – ‘We’re Number 18, we’re Number 18!’

July 9, 2022 // 1 Comment

SEEING OURSELVES as others see us can be either reaffirming or disconcerting, depending. So what are we to make of the latest survey that pegs Kamloops as Number 18 on the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – It was a great day to celebrate Canada, warts and all

July 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

IT WAS A GREAT Canada Day. All the Canada Day traditions were in evidence at Riverside Park. There were bagpipes, drums and flags, and the reaffirmation of citizenship. The [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Will anyone speak up for heritage in the Tournament Capital?

June 25, 2022 // 2 Comments

HERITAGE IN KAMLOOPS is in dire straits. There is currently no effective voice for the preservation of heritage in the city. The degradation of advocacy for heritage began [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Shutting down City’s Facebook comments is the wrong move

June 18, 2022 // 1 Comment

HERE WE GO AGAIN with Internet incivility. This time, the City of Kamloops has banned commenters from its Facebook page. I think it’s the wrong move, but let’s look at [Continue]