Editorials

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]