ROTHENBURGER – We need less freedom of expression, not more
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]
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ROTHENBURGER – We need to laugh more about parking tickets and colonoscopies
“JACK KNOX is a friend of mine,” I told the mayor of one of the infinite number of municipalities that make up Greater Victoria. I say this every time I run into [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – The line between curiosity and invasion of privacy
PRIVACY is hard to come by these days. The world has become a place without filters, where the best and the worst in us have full range of expression, and where lives can be [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Retirement is OK, after work and on weekends
RETIREMENT is hard work. Five years ago I wrote a column on my first day of official retirement. I reflected on what it was like not going to work that day, attending to all [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – A topsy-turvy week of politics in B.C.
After-hours talk at UBCM convention was about the Kamloops by-election, and the BC Liberal leadership race IT SHOULD COME as no surprise that, when politicians get together, [Continue]
ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Key civic by-election issue is about the money
THE KAMLOOPS civic by-election is a week away, and it’s coming down to money. Public money, that is. Tax money. The poster child, er, building, is the deceased Kamloops [Continue]
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