ROTHENBURGER – I forgive you, my big, beautiful, wonderful Canada
CANADA, you’re not everything I’d like you to be. You’re flawed. Like an uncertain child, you stumble from time to time. You make poor choices now and then, but I’m [Continue]
Armchair Mayor
ROTHENBURGER – Goodbye, Sears – mourning the end of the Wish Book era
THIS THING with Sears marks the end of an era, and the ending of eras is almost always sad. Fifty-nine stores closing, 2,900 jobs lost. It’s called [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – City needs bylaw to make teens leave home sooner
MOST DAYS, I’m certain that the power of the press is much over-rated. The media get way too much credit for influencing what people think. For that reason, I try not to [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – In the end, we’re all just roadkill on the highway of life
THERE WAS a marmot on the road one day as my son and I were driving home from town. It lay there in a small pool of blood, it’s little buck teeth sticking out, its eyes [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – City council – throw the bums out, or steady as she goes?
CITY COUNCILS come in cycles, and Kamloops is about to start a new one. Those cycles consist of long stretches of stability followed by dramatic change. The current stability [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Suck it up and say goodbye to door-to-door mail delivery
A FEW YEARS ago I interviewed a postie about mail service. I told her that when I was a kid, a fresh bottle of milk appeared on our front step every morning. In cold weather, [Continue]
