Editorials

EDITORIAL – Do Kamloops council and staff have a failure to communicate?

November 20, 2023 // 6 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AT ITS TUESDAY MEETING, Kamloops council will have three options in front of it for an increase to water rates. One is the 25 per cent hike [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Packing bus exchanges with new high-density housing won’t fly

November 16, 2023 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THE MORE PUZZLING pieces to David Eby’s dictatorial housing plan is the one aimed at constructing more high-density housing around [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Spending $75,000 for cancer centre ‘advocacy’ is a total waste

November 15, 2023 // 9 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. GOVERNMENTS ARE GOOD at wasting money. We know that. Take, for example, a Thompson Regional Hospital District decision to pay $75,000 to a [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Any talk of who’s to blame for Gaza must include Oct. 7

November 14, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WASN’T SURPRISED at some of the reaction to my Remembrance Day column on my recent visit to Auschwitz and the current disturbing rise in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Homeless count raises questions but provides no answers

October 31, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE LATEST HOMELESSNESS COUNT raises many questions about the “unhoused” in Kamloops but provides no answers. Called the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Have we lost a hero in Buffy Sainte-Marie?

October 28, 2023 // 4 Comments

CANADA HAS ALWAYS been intensely proud of Buffy Sainte-Marie. We’ve known her for more than half a century as a Canadian indigenous woman who is both a talented musician [Continue]