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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]

ROTHENBURGER – The convoy – Don’t believe everything you read or see

February 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

EACH AND EVERY DAY, 100,000 airliners land safely. Nobody pays any attention to it. It’s not news. No headlines on the front page, no “breaking news” on TV. How many [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Our cityscape makes a daring switch from beige to greige

January 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

I’VE GOT GOOD NEWS and bad news. You might have heard me rant a time or two about the beigeness of Kamloops, a condition caused by myopic planners able to see only “earth [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Kamloops has already built a bridge to reconciliation

January 22, 2022 // 1 Comment

A BRIDGE TO RECONCILIATION is within our grasp right here in Kamloops. I mean symbolically, at least, although the international attention the community received after last [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘Unvaxxed tax’ would edge us close to mandatory vaccination

January 15, 2022 // 3 Comments

THE CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, Nuremberg Code, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other such documents will, no doubt, be in for heavy workouts as the latest [Continue]