Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Vaccine cards and the sudden switch to ‘fast food’ service

October 16, 2021 // 3 Comments

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER of invention, and some Kamloops restaurants have been getting creative in order to legally skirt B.C.’s vaccine card law. Whether their methodology [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Strip clubs are dead, thanks to attitudes and technology

October 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

STRIP CLUBS, or “peeler bars” as some call them, are, it seems, officially dead in Kamloops. Few will mourn their demise but they were certainly part of an interesting [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Is a return to big institutions the answer to street issues?

October 2, 2021 // 4 Comments

THERE WAS A TIME when the streets weren’t full of homeless, addicted, criminal or mentally ill people. A time when there were no panhandlers, when public washrooms [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City’s loss of a million dollars in funding is a head scratcher

September 28, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A MILLION DOLLARS is not chump change, especially to taxpayers. City council has been scratching its head over how Kamloops lost out on a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – A ‘new normal’ with China begins right here in our home town

September 27, 2021 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT TO DO about China? That seems to be the big question now that Meng Wanzhou has gone home and the two Michaels are back on Canadian [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Pro rep shows up again like an uninvited house guest

September 25, 2021 // 4 Comments

LIKE AN UNWANTED house guest, proportional representation keeps showing up and wanting to move in. It’s happening again. It was inevitable, perhaps, that the losers in the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Will we vote with our heads or our hearts in this election?

September 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

MONDAY’S ELECTION seems more about who not to vote for than who to vote for. In attack ads and daily media statements, party leaders focus on instilling fear in voters [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 – 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]

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]