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ROTHENBURGER – The Chilcotin War and the rewriting of Canada’s history

March 31, 2018 // 5 Comments

THE JUSTIN TRUDEAU government, assisted by all opposition parties, this week completed a masterful rewriting of history. The prime minister joined with speakers for the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Thoughts and prayers don’t deserve the bad rap

March 24, 2018 // 1 Comment

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS have been getting a bad rap lately. Commentators are trashing them as over-used, empty and meaningless. They’re referring to the sympathies offered by [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Will newest, grandest public art project get two thumbs up from the masses?

March 3, 2018 // 8 Comments

GOOD ON the City for its newest public art project. I’m a huge fan of public art. This week, councillors were shown plans for putting lipstick on the Lansdowne Street [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Getting people from A to B keeps getting harder and harder

February 24, 2018 // 0 Comments

IN AN AGE when we can send huge amounts of information to the other side of the world in the blink of an eye, here in the Interior of B.C. we have trouble moving people from [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Would the 2010 railway-tie hysteria be different now?

February 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

BACK IN 2010, a man named Kim Sigurdson was the most unpopular man in Kamloops. Sigurdson had the temerity to propose a solution to a major environmental problem — the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Politicians should be allowed to tell bad jokes once in awhile

February 10, 2018 // 0 Comments

WE’VE LOST our sense of humour. I recently made a joke about Prince George in an editorial and received a heated rebuke from a reader. I fully expected to get the same [Continue]