Armchair Mayor

ROTHENBURGER – NP or a GP for me? I’m no longer a healthcare orphan

December 2, 2017 // 1 Comment

After a couple of years wandering the back alleys of the healthcare system like a homeless waif, I had a choice. What to do, what to do? I WANT Terry Lake to pay attention. [Continue]

ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Words we hate to hear: ‘Would you care to donate….’

November 25, 2017 // 0 Comments

I should have stopped and talked to the volunteer about why I wasn’t making a donation that day I WALKED out of the super market very recently with a small bag of [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The horse-and-buggy days of the news media are over

November 18, 2017 // 0 Comments

ANY TIME there’s a tremor in a local media outlet, it rattles news junkies. Kamloops is full of news junkies. We worry about where our news is coming from. According to a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – The wars and soldiers we seem to have forgotten

November 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Charge of the Light Brigade TALK TO war veterans, and one of their biggest worries is that [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Let’s be perfectly clear: men are not all potential rapists

November 4, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE CURRENT public debate on sexual harassment and assault prompted by the #MeToo campaign brought to mind a front-page headline years ago in the Kamloops Daily News. In [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – We need less freedom of expression, not more

October 28, 2017 // 4 Comments

Bad things happen when we become too free with our speech. We stop taking responsibility for our own words. We forget our humanity. We become feckless trolls, bullies and [Continue]