Editorials

EDITORIAL – Reality of kids’ detention camps doesn’t need exaggeration

June 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

What do we do when something a government does makes us really mad? We compare it to Nazi Germany. A good name for it might be Holocaust hyperbole. An editorial by Mel [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Report on sexual misconduct in schools short on details

June 20, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE REPORT ON sexual misconduct in district schools says all the right things while at the same time saying very little at all — at least [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Boycotting American groceries isn’t as easy as it might seem

June 19, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S NO SLAM DUNK boycotting American food products to get back at Trump. I took a look in our refrigerator and pantry and found that most [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Three-minute anti-idling law won’t change anybody’s behaviour

June 18, 2018 // 3 Comments

UPDATE: Kamloops City council approved the three-minute idling limit Tuesday. An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. EVER THINK ABOUT how much gasoline we waste, and how much air [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Temporary gas shortage gives us a glimpse into the future

June 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE GASOLINE SHORTAGE hasn’t been causing much inconvenience this week because only a few stations are affected but it gets you thinking [Continue]

EDITORIAL – A random idea for putting candidates’ names on ballots

June 13, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A FEW YEARS AGO I suggested that Kamloops City council cut its size from nine members to seven — six councillors and a mayor. Other cities [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Council should put up the money for veterans’ signs now

June 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I THINK Kamloops City council should stop being so cheap and put up a few thousand dollars to honour our war veterans on [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Like father like son, standing up to the American bully

June 11, 2018 // 6 Comments

IT WOULD BE so easy to blame Justin Trudeau for the blow-up of the G7 economic conference, to say it’s all his fault that everything fell apart after Donald Trump jumped on [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Next time CNN messes with Canada, call Samantha Bee

June 7, 2018 // 3 Comments

WE CANADIANS are not only polite, but we’re very, very sensitive. It’s OK for us to be rude to our own politicians, but heaven forbid an American TV network should do it. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How do we get to reconciliation on Trans Mountain?

June 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A COUPLE OF thoughts today on the ever-shifting tarsands, if you’ll excuse the pun. Two phrases are tossed around almost daily in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The old neighbourhood just isn’t what it used to be

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

An AmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHATEVER HAPPENED to our neighbourhoods? They used to be peaceful places, where kids grew up in safely and everybody could [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Have the Greens really made any difference to B.C. politics?

June 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S BEEN A YEAR since the NDP and Greens teamed up to take power away from the BC Liberals and, to hear the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – McLeod’s private member’s bill on medical pot was common sense

June 1, 2018 // 1 Comment

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILL sponsored by Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Cathy McLeod went down in flames Wednesday but she [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Wording of referendum will kill proportional representation

May 31, 2018 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LET’S SEE IF we can boil down the plan for a referendum on electoral-system changes in B.C., shall we? Notice, by the [Continue]