Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – You and I know less about Canada than we think we do

June 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

I CONSIDER MYSELF a good Canadian but, apparently, I’m not as good as I thought. The annual Historica.ca extreme trivia quiz is out. I barely passed it. Then I thought [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’re making things too easy on our kids, and it’s not fair

June 22, 2019 // 1 Comment

WE’RE RUINING OUR KIDS, turning them into a bunch of confused, pampered wimps. We fight their fights in sports, in their education, in every aspect of their social [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – McLure Ferry’s 100th brings back memories of river tragedy

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE 100th ANNIVERSARY of the McLure Ferry is being celebrated this summer, though it’s actually been in operation almost 20 years longer than that. The date being used as [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Life in a small town can get a bit silly at times

June 15, 2019 // 3 Comments

LIFE IN A SMALL TOWN can get kind of silly, sometimes, can’t it? By small town, I mean, of course, small in the best sense of the word, a place where you can walk down the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We’re better off not knowing the answers to everything

June 8, 2019 // 1 Comment

AS MUCH AS HUMANS constantly pursue the unknown, I’m convinced there’s a part of us that doesn’t want to find the answers to everything. Certain things are best left as [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Busking bylaw was a solution looking for a problem

June 1, 2019 // 1 Comment

It was an attempt to increase the quality of busking, but what about the quality of panhandling? THE ‘STREET PERFORMANCE’ issue appears to finally be put to rest and [Continue]