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ROTHENBURGER – What we need in this country is a special racism court

November 30, 2019 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER PERSONALITY LOST his job Friday over racist remarks. The latest offender is Calgary Flames head coach Bill Peters, who resigned after revelations he used racist slurs [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Say a prayer for our politicians, as long as it’s the right kind

November 23, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHEN THE B.C. LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY resumes sitting Monday morning, one of its members will recite a prayer, as usual. Some people don’t like those prayers. They don’t [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – A city’s history of failure in dealing with parking problem

November 16, 2019 // 4 Comments

FOR A CITY SO CODEPENDENT on automobiles, Kamloops has a strange aversion to figuring out where to park them. When my grandfather bought one of Kamloops’ first motorized [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Are the 2015 and 2020 PAC plans really ‘totally different’?

November 9, 2019 // 8 Comments

‘THIS ONE IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.’ You’ve probably heard that line more than once from proponents of the new performing arts centre proposal, and you’ll most certainly [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Would you jump in to stop someone’s racist tirade?

November 2, 2019 // 2 Comments

HAVE YOU EVER been in a convenience store or a restaurant and heard people speaking in a foreign language? Did it bother you? It bothers the hell out of some people, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – From death metal to hip hop – how Daz Tha Punk turned his life around

October 26, 2019 // 2 Comments

IT’S BEEN FOUR YEARS since the last time I had coffee with Daz Tha Punk. Back then he was going by the performance name Bloodlust Abominator of Ritual War Incantations — [Continue]