Editorials

EDITORIAL – Why is getting everyone together to talk about walk-in clinics such a tough concept to grasp?

January 16, 2017 // 5 Comments

GETTING ALL the parties together in a public venue to talk about walk-in clinics — an idea I pitched recently in a column — is selling like crap cakes. In other words, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Cabinet shuffle could shift strategy on electoral reform

January 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. MOST OF the attention on yesterday’s federal cabinet shuffle has been on the exit of Stephane Dion and John McCallum and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Obama’s parting words same as his first: ‘Yes we can!’

January 10, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE WAS a mixture of sadness and inspiration in the American president’s farewell speech tonight. Barack Obama, the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Constant repetition of Trump’s faults has become boring

January 9, 2017 // 1 Comment

ISN’T IT TIME we all stop whining about what a bad guy Donald Trump is? Every time his name is mentioned, it seems, we must remind each other that he is a name caller, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Woe is me, whatever will happen to Kamloops City council?

January 4, 2017 // 2 Comments

I DON’T remember when Kamloops City council has been in such a state of functional uncertainty as it is now. There have been times in its history, to be sure, when [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Cenotaph vandalism both reprehensible and misguided

December 29, 2016 // 2 Comments

THE GRAFFITI VANDALISM at the Kamloops cenotaph that occurred over the holiday season is disturbing on two fronts. First, the desecration of a revered community monument is [Continue]