Editorials

EDITORIAL – Hand-picking facts to support proportional representation

July 6, 2018 // 10 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I ATTENDED THE PRESENTATION on Wednesday night by Dr. Denis Pilon of York University on the upcoming referendum on changes to the B.C. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Greenpeace protesters should pay the costs of publicity stunt

July 5, 2018 // 5 Comments

SEVEN GREENPEACE PROTESTERS were removed from Vancouver’s Ironworkers Memorial Bridge — also known as the Second Narrows — on Wednesday afternoon after hanging from it [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We can fight the racists by taking away their voice

July 4, 2018 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. STORIES ABOUT THE DISCOVERY of racist anti-indigenous graffiti spray-painted on a sign at Lac du Bois have been in local media for the past [Continue]

EDITORIAL – When police walk in Pride Parades, that will be progress

July 3, 2018 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’M DISAPPOINTED THAT POLICE won’t be walking in this year’s Kamloops Pride Parade. The parade reflects the progress made in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Thanks, Coun. Tina Lange, from the thoughtful people out there

July 2, 2018 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. POLITICIANS ARE THE least respected and most maligned people in the country. We love to disparage them but, cripes, can’t we have the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City Hall agenda debate Part 2 – Politics is not nine to five

June 29, 2018 // 3 Comments

CIVIC POLITICS is not a nine-to-five job either for elected representatives or for the people who work for them. They know that, but they struggled with it this week. In Part [Continue]