Rothenburger

EDITORIAL – Next time CNN messes with Canada, call Samantha Bee

June 7, 2018 // 3 Comments

WE CANADIANS are not only polite, but we’re very, very sensitive. It’s OK for us to be rude to our own politicians, but heaven forbid an American TV network should do it. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – How do we get to reconciliation on Trans Mountain?

June 6, 2018 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A COUPLE OF thoughts today on the ever-shifting tarsands, if you’ll excuse the pun. Two phrases are tossed around almost daily in [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The old neighbourhood just isn’t what it used to be

June 5, 2018 // 0 Comments

An AmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHATEVER HAPPENED to our neighbourhoods? They used to be peaceful places, where kids grew up in safely and everybody could [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Have the Greens really made any difference to B.C. politics?

June 4, 2018 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S BEEN A YEAR since the NDP and Greens teamed up to take power away from the BC Liberals and, to hear the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Going behind the headlines to get the whole story

June 2, 2018 // 0 Comments

HEADLINES ARE a good way of finding out if we want to read a news story. But the news story itself is filtered by the writer based on his or her idea of which facts are worth [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – The day the waterfront centre was rejected

June 1, 2018 // 3 Comments

Today, we revisit the 1987 referendum on the proposed $50-million Waterfront Centre that would have included a convention centre, sports coliseum, museum and performing arts [Continue]