Editorials

EDITORIAL – How can coming to see for yourself be inappropriate?

August 31, 2017 // 8 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ENVIRONMENT MINISTER George Heyman’s refusal to come to Kamloops to talk about Ajax defies the normal bounds of logic, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Time SD73 got a fair shake on funding for school upgrades

August 30, 2017 // 0 Comments

THIS BOOKLET tells an interesting story — it was announced by the School District 73 board of education this week and makes for some fascinating reading about how Kamloops [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Is anyone surprised the patient-care tower is going ahead?

August 29, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HEATH MINISTER Adrian Dix’s announcement Monday that the Royal Inland Hospital patient care tower will go ahead as [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Proposal to take Sir John A.’s name off schools is ridiculous

August 25, 2017 // 2 Comments

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE ELEMENTARY Teachers’ Federation of Ontario has done everyone a favour in pointing out how ridiculous the movement to [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Dress-code controversy a pain in the gluteal fold

August 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I LEARNED something new this past week. You and I have a gluteal fold. Two, actually. As best I can tell — and I’ve [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mayoral by-election looks like a zero-sum game so far

August 21, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN VOTERS elect a mayor, how much of what he or she says can they expect to come about? How valid, in other words, are [Continue]