ARMCHAIR MAYOR – Words we hate to hear: ‘Would you care to donate….’
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]
Armchair Mayor
ROTHENBURGER – The horse-and-buggy days of the news media are over
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
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
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
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]
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]
