Editorials

EDITORIAL – Fight against drug overdoses must begin with enforcement

August 17, 2022 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHEN A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY was declared by B.C.’s provincial health officer in April of 2016, it was an important step against drug [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Federal ban on rescue-dog imports is nonsensical and inhumane

August 16, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DOGS, YOU GOTTA LOVE ‘EM. And, of course, we do. It’s as if it were the law. They’re part of the family. We take them for daily walks, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Future isn’t so friendly with Telus money grab on credit-card fees

August 15, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FIRST IT WAS paying airlines for carrying our luggage. Then COVID sympathy tips began creeping in for just about everything we buy. And we [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Sharps-disposal container on Rivers Trail seems out of place

August 11, 2022 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IS THERE A RIGHT PLACE and a wrong place to put a sharps-disposal container? Those who walk the Rivers Trail through Westmount are [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Putting off vote on new performing arts centre is a smart move

August 10, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TIMING IS EVERYTHING. Thus it is with the Kamloops performing arts centre. The PAC, as it’s commonly known, won’t be on the ballot as [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Vandals strike again, this time on the Valleyview bike overpass

August 9, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. ONE OF THESE DAYS — or so I’d like to think — I’ll stand here and report that Kamloops has become a cleanly scrubbed city respected [Continue]