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ROTHENBURGER – Is there no end to the cruelty we visit upon wild animals?

March 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

THE WAR ON WILD ANIMALS continues. We’ve become very accomplished at terminating them with extreme prejudice. The BC SPCA is calling for a national ban on a trio of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Crackdown against KFS shows science isn’t everything

March 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

FOLLOW THE SCIENCE. That’s been the mantra of those in charge of the strategy to defeat COVID-19 and it’s a good one. Too many people don’t get that. They refuse to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – School dress codes are needed but they’re hard to get right

February 27, 2021 // 4 Comments

NOTHING LIKE A DRESS CODE to make for a good controversy, especially if it’s got to do with schools. As the Kamloops-Thompson School District mulls over changes to its [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Nothing like a night in ER to make us appreciate health care

February 20, 2021 // 0 Comments

IF YOU HAPPENED to spend the night on a gurney in the Emergency Department hallway recently, you would have gotten a pretty good idea of the challenges faced by our [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Solution to disappearing shopping carts remains elusive

February 13, 2021 // 2 Comments

GOING ON FOUR YEARS after shopping carts became a high-profile issue, there’s still no solution. In 2017, RCMP embarked on a crackdown on shopping-cart theft, seizing carts [Continue]

EDITORIAL: We should vaccinate for one Olympics and boycott the other

February 9, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HERE’S A TALE of two Olympics. If all goes well, Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Games later this year. Not far away, Beijing is preparing [Continue]