Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – It’s panic buying, not hoarding, and our brains make us do it

November 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

I ONCE RAN INTO ELVIS in frozen foods. He was wearing his jump suit and checking out the Lean Cuisine fridge. “I’m a huge fan,” I told him. “I have all your LPs.” [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The indecency of Remembrance Day protests, and a happy bear update

November 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE STORY OF THE BEAR CUBS has a happier ending than it might have been, but first let’s talk briefly about the latest outrageous act carried out by the anti-vaxxers. Their [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Legacy of Flying Phil and Jennie Gaglardi is finally recognized

November 6, 2021 // 3 Comments

FLYING PHIL GAGLARDI will finally get his name on a major Kamloops edifice. And it’s fitting that his wife Jennie is included in the new name for the patient-care tower [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The other side of the Coun. Denis Walsh vaccination story

October 30, 2021 // 3 Comments

‘We shouldn’t fire people with natural immunity, we should hire them.’ — Bill Maher, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. I WAS SITTING in The Vic this week with a friend — the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Cats should be licensed, fixed and allowed to run free

October 23, 2021 // 1 Comment

IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW, Kamloops has a cat problem. It was ever thus. The SPCA says the town has a cat overpopulation “crisis.” It says 78 per cent of the BC SPCA’s [Continue]

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]