Editorials

EDITORIAL – Coroner is wrong; we shouldn’t live with public drug use

January 31, 2024 // 17 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. BC CORONER LISA LAPOINTE effectively though unintentionally articulates pretty much everything that’s wrong with allowing the consumption [Continue]

EDITORIAL – TRU decision to axe visual arts programs fails the community

January 30, 2024 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, education and the arts are about money. That truth has been confirmed with the decision yesterday (Monday, Jan. 29, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Bring the public back into City council’s Code of Conduct process

January 29, 2024 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A WHOLE LOT of investigating has been going on in City Hall, resulting from City council’s code of conduct regulations. The City says [Continue]

EDITORIAL – After parties agree on cellphones, maybe Yellowhead is next

January 29, 2024 // 1 Comment

BEING A MEMBER of the Opposition must be frustrating these days. Just when you come up with a good idea, the NDP government takes it from you. There was, for example, BC [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Performing arts centre must include adequate parking nearby

January 25, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE DOWNTOWN PARKING PROBLEM won’t go away just because we want it to. The official line from City Hall a few years ago was that more [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Decision on Emergencies Act doesn’t validate ‘Freedom Convoy’

January 24, 2024 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. QUITE THE BOMBSHELL yesterday with a Federal Court ruling that the federal government’s use of the Emergencies Act against the so-called [Continue]