ROTHENBURGER – The world decides not to play the killer’s game
AS SURELY AS IF by referendum in every country, in every city and every house on every street and country road, the world made a decision on Friday. It was the right [Continue]
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ROTHENBURGER – We’ve got to talk about suicide, but how do we do it?
A YEAR AGO on Thursday, my daughter Edyn killed herself. She was 38. A year before that, in the same month, her son, my grandson Mykel, killed himself. He was 16. We need to [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – One word scrawled on page 1 renders verdict in JWR case
THE NEWSPAPER IN THE COFFEE SHOP Friday morning said all there is to know about the scandal involving former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould. The story was, of course, [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The dangers of not being careful with what we say
CLERK OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL Michael Wernick said Thursday what everybody else has been thinking but hasn’t wanted to say. “I’m worried that somebody is going to be shot [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The Pinantan chicken and other tales of being grounded in the polar vortex
WHEN EVEN winter-hardened veterans from our neck of the woods complain about the weather, you know things aren’t normal. I haven’t heard this much bitching since Tim [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The big difference between listening and empowering
ENGAGEMENT, CONSULTATION AND TRANSPARENCY are big words in governments of all levels right now. Issues like pipeline expansion, electoral reform and First Nations rights come [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Disc golf, pickleball and other passing sports fads
AS THE CITY ASKS FOR PUBLIC INPUT into upgrades to Tournament Capital facilities, a review of the process leading to this week’s decision on the old McArthur Island golf [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Searching for a parking spot in the asphalt jungle
WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME obsessing over downtown parking rates but that’s only half the issue. The other half is parking spaces and how to find them. We’ll all agree that [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Vision: sometimes we get it right, sometimes we don’t
ONE OF THE TOUGHEST QUESTIONS we ask our politicians is, “What is your vision for Kamloops?” More often than not, the response has something to do with a clean, safe city [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Five hurdles the performing arts centre must cross
IT’S A PRETTY SAFE assumption that another referendum on a performing arts centre is in the cards. The challenge will be to get it over the 50 per cent threshold. Since the [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – We lost some very good people in 2018
I ONCE ARM-WRESTLED Dr. Cynthia Ross-Friedman. In March 2014 I was interviewing her for a segment of Coffee With the Armchair Mayor, a feature I used to do for CBC Radio. I [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The Armchair Mayor Awards for news misses of 2018
THE YEAR HAS GONE BY quickly, hasn’t it? Hard to believe it’s time for the 2018 Armchair Mayor Awards for news and news makers that made headlines but not necessarily in [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Frootloops council tackles crisis of snowless Christmas
THERE IS NO JOY in Frootloops. With only a few days to go before Christmas, the council gathers to deal with a crisis — no snow. As the newbies mill around trying to find [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – There will never be another like Angelo Iacobucci
ANGELO IACOBUCCI was good column fodder. I once wrote about watching in amazement as he sat in City council chambers during a meeting and ate French fries and clipped his toe [Continue]
