Editorials

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]

EDITORIAL – City taxpayers shouldn’t pay for TRU’s pedestrian overpass

June 28, 2018 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I CAN’T THINK of a worse place to spend a few million dollars worth of City taxpayers’ money than building a pedestrian overpass across [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Flag debate – making the world a more complicated place

June 27, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S TRUE THE WORLD is more complicated than it used to be but that’s because we make it that way. In the old days, a community group [Continue]