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ROTHENBURGER: Thoughts for a long weekend – museums, Charles and what’s in a name

May 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

SOME SCATTERED THOUGHTS for a long weekend. A couple of kids were walking past the Royal B.C. Museum in Victoria the other day. One girl was about 12, the other about 14. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER- They don’t make things like they used to, and it’s on purpose

May 14, 2022 // 1 Comment

EVERY TIME I THROW another pair of old socks into the rag bin, I think about my mom. She would have darned those socks and made them good to go for another year. That’s not [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – And just like that, the abortion debate comes roaring back

May 7, 2022 // 1 Comment

WHO’D HAVE THOUGHT abortion would become an issue again? For 35 years or so we thought it was settled but it never really went away. A pending U.S. Supreme Court decision [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Latest census results carry bad news for young and old alike

April 30, 2022 // 1 Comment

‘WE’RE GETTING OLD,” I said as a friend and I sat in the coffee shop this week. “Tell me about it,” he said. “It’s scary.” I had another birthday a few days [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Instead of giving the finger, how about giving our time?

April 23, 2022 // 1 Comment

THERE’S GENERAL AGREEMENT that people are angry. It’s relative, of course, but they’re undeniably angrier right now than they’ve been for a long time. It was [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – On this Easter weekend, a happy story about a horse

April 16, 2022 // 1 Comment

THIS IS A STORY about a horse. Why, on this Easter long weekend, would I tell a story about a horse? Well, whether you’re Christian or not, Easter symbolizes new life, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER — ‘No one denies there’s an issue with prolific offenders’

April 9, 2022 // 5 Comments

RARELY IS THERE AGREEMENT between the BC Liberals and NDP, especially during Question Period in the Legislature, but they came close to it this week on the issue of random [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – With Pope’s apology in hand, ‘now the hard work begins’

April 2, 2022 // 3 Comments

INDIGENOUS DELEGATES to the Vatican must be feeling a great sense of satisfaction, happiness, even relief as they wing their way home. Pope Francis has apologized. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Coroner’s report provides a chance to break down a stigma

March 26, 2022 // 1 Comment

WHEN YOUTH HOMELESSNESS advocate Katherine McParland died a year and a half ago, she was eulogized for her work raising awareness and funding for kids aging out of the foster [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – All’s quiet on the TMX front; maybe a little too quiet

March 19, 2022 // 3 Comments

ALL IS QUIET on the Trans Mountain front, at least on the section that runs through the North Thompson Valley including Black Pines. Maybe a little too quiet. A year ago, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Are we leaving COVID behind, or just ignoring it?

March 12, 2022 // 1 Comment

I’M NOT READY to leave home. Sure, I’m OK sitting in a coffee shop or walking down the street but I’d still feel uncomfortable squeezed cheek by jowl with a crowd at a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: The quest for a made-at-home plan to fight social disorder

March 5, 2022 // 1 Comment

IT’S GOOD TO KNOW, sometimes, that we’re not in it alone. Social disorder on the streets is the biggest topic of public discussion in Kamloops, with everyone trying to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Bouncy castles, pig roasts and dying in Ukraine

February 26, 2022 // 2 Comments

THERE ARE NO BOUNCY CASTLES or pig roasts in the streets of Kiev (or Keev, or Kayev, or Kyiv, depending on whichever TV news announcer is on shift) today. I didn’t come up [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Kamloops flirts with population of 100,000, 34 years late

February 12, 2022 // 3 Comments

KAMLOOPS IS GROWING. It doesn’t take a genius to figure that out. Statistics Canada numbers released this week show by how much. The city grew by 8.4 per cent in the five [Continue]