Armchair Mayor

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Draining the swamp is nothing new, not in Kamloops

March 21, 2025 // 2 Comments

Long, long ago, before Donald Trump and Elon Musk came along to drain the swamp, take a chainsaw to bureaucracy and seek revenge on political opponents, there was the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Measles is back; what if we don’t know if we’re immune?

March 20, 2025 // 6 Comments

MEASLES IS on the rise. It was supposed to have been eradicated years ago, but relaxation of vaccine programs in some parts of the world, combined with international travel [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Gordon Chow, the man who ran for mayor

March 14, 2025 // 4 Comments

The following column was first published on March 15, 2014 in the Kamloops Daily News. SOMETHING WILL BE MISSING from this year’s civic election — the name of Gordon [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – BC Conservatives and a misunderstanding of ‘denialism’

March 8, 2025 // 4 Comments

CAN WE PLEASE get the definition of “denialism” straight? Denialism does not mean simply disagreeing with the viewpoints or claims of fact of another. Yet that’s the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Why Sugarcane didn’t win a Best Documentary Oscar

March 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

KAMLOOPS HAD A PART in Sunday night’s (March 2, 2025) Academy Awards. A small one, but we were there in a film called Sugarcane that was nominated under the Best [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It’s Zelensky, not Donald Trump, who should be thanked

February 28, 2025 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE OVAL OFFICE shouting match today (Feb. 28, 2025) must surely go down in history as the most embarrassing failure in U.S. diplomacy ever. [Continue]