Editorials

EDITORIAL – National swooning over Toronto Raptors is a bit much

June 18, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HOW ABOUT THOSE RAPTORS? Monday’s Raptors parade in Toronto, and the wall-to-wall, over-the-top media coverage and national swooning was [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Blue Dot request will test City council’s green commitment

June 17, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE’LL SEE HOW COMMITTED Kamloops City council is to the environment today (June 18, 2010) when a seemingly routine request for a [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Invisible council has to put up its hand for PAC to have a chance

June 13, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I HOPE THE ‘HANDS OFF’ STRATEGY City Hall seems to be taking on the performing arts centre works but I’m not so sure it will. The idea [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Please tell us killing the black bear is a last resort

June 12, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FAR BE IT FROM ME to tell conservation officers how to do their job but I’ll do it anyway. There’s a broken trust between COs and [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Federal plastics ban good news for the environment

June 11, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF WE TAKE THE POLITICS out of reaction to Justin Trudeau’s announcement that he’ll ban single-use plastics by 2021 if he’s [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Spotlight needed on runaway indigenous teens

June 10, 2019 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ANOTHER TEENAGER WENT MISSING on the weekend. Fifteen years old, 5 ft. 5 inches tall, 110 pounds, brown eyes and hair, indigenous female. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Surrey report shows city police force not a good idea here

June 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF THE IDEA OF a Kamloops municipal police force ever rears its head again, a look at what’s going on in Surrey would be in order. A [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We can redefine the ‘Genocide’ word if we want to

June 5, 2019 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LANGUAGE IS NOT the boss of us. We follow its rules when they suit us. We change language through common use and misuse. The English of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – It’s possible to solve problems and also enjoy life

June 4, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOME PEOPLE WOULD ONLY be happy if the entire world was gray and beige, devoid of extras. I draw that conclusion from some of the reaction [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Hat Creek Ranch shouldn’t be swept up in Reconciliation

June 3, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A NEWS ITEM about the management of the Hat Creek Ranch tourist attraction raises cause for concern. The ranch has special meaning for me [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Time to end the dance on sharing of marijuana tax revenues

May 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S A SLOW, AWKWARD DANCE going on between politicians and somebody should make the music stop. It has to do with splitting up the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Lansdowne parkade mural is a spectacular piece of public art

May 29, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE NEXT TIME YOU’RE DRIVING down Lansdowne Street, enjoying the reconstruction traffic, look left as you pass the City parkade. You’ll [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Vicars Road intersection nightmare will be with us forever

May 28, 2019 // 6 Comments

(Video: Mel Rothenburger) An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN RANKING THE MOST DANGEROUS driving experiences in Kamloops, the Vicars Road intersection has to be near the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Scheer’s national energy corridor just another pipe dream

May 27, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WAS THERE EVER a more absurd scheme than Andrew Scheer’s proposal to create what he calls a “national energy corridor”? The timing of [Continue]