Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – Hamer-Jackson deserves a chance to test his ideas

October 22, 2022 // 3 Comments

AND NOW FOR something completely different. A week later, what happened on election day is starting to sink in. A guy few initially expected to win is the mayor-elect of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – When it comes to turnouts in civic elections, size matters

October 15, 2022 // 1 Comment

BIG DAY TODAY — the day we get to pick our new mayors and councils. When I say ‘we,’ I mean those of us who actually do vote. We are a mere one-third of those who are [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Time for Armchair Mayor’s campaign sign report card

October 8, 2022 // 3 Comments

PAY ATTENTION, CLASS, it’s time for the Armchair Mayor’s election campaign signs report card, which I’ve been providing each election since 2008. I probably pay more [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canadians are getting the message about T&R

October 1, 2022 // 2 Comments

ACTION, NOT JUST WORDS. We hear that a lot these days in any discussion of reconciliation, and it undoubtedly was spoken many times yesterday, for it was National Truth and [Continue]

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]