Editorials

EDITORIAL – TRU president on wrong track in restricting meeting agendas

March 26, 2024 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY is in the news this week, on the one hand for releasing new information and, on the other, for restricting it. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why we should keep calling our mayors ‘Your Worship’

March 21, 2024 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I READ AN ARTICLE the other day in which Mayor Reid-Hamer Jackson says the honorific “Your Worship” has lost some of its meaning and [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why one City council has banned the public from its meetings

March 19, 2024 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CITY COUNCILLORS in Kamloops sometimes worry about members of the public being impolite, or speaking too long during meetings in council [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Trump’s words just keep getting more confused and dangerous

March 18, 2024 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE LAST TIME I wrote about Donald Trump, I said the biggest thing we have to worry about in 2024 is that he could be elected president of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Shortlist of names for new Pineview school anything but inspiring

March 15, 2024 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger I AM NOT INSPIRED by the finalists in the name-the-school poll. Out of 131 suggestions for a name for the new Pineview Valley elementary [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We should get rid of our free-spending governors-general

March 14, 2024 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GOVERNOR-GENERAL Mary Simon has been awarded a salary boost of $11,200 for 2024, bringing her annual paycheque to $362,800. She doesn’t [Continue]