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PATIENCE PLEASE – Construction work in progress at ArmchairMayor.ca

April 11, 2017 // 3 Comments

Things could be a little weird at ArmchairMayor.ca for a week or so. I’ve been putzing around for the past few weeks on a new design, and figured on getting everything [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Giving graffiti vandals ‘free walls’ was and is a dumb idea

April 10, 2017 // 1 Comment

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TO THE GUY on the radio the other day who came up with the brilliant idea of giving graffiti vandals their own walls on which [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – How one man helped build a nation at Vimy Ridge

April 8, 2017 // 1 Comment

TOMORROW (April 9, 2017), I’m going down to Merritt to emcee an event honoring a man I’ve admired much of my life, though I never knew him. He was the son of a brother of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The buck stops at the top in health-researcher firings

April 7, 2017 // 3 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE HEADLINES Thursday about the Ombudsperson’s report on health ministry firings sounded pretty clear. “Ombudsperson [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The arithmetic of local doctor shortage is shocking

April 6, 2017 // 8 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE NEW DEMOCRATS are stepping up their press-release production and may eventually rival the incumbent government if they [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Constant funding announcements have become white noise

April 5, 2017 // 2 Comments

An ArmchairMayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DO YOU HEAR that sound? Wait for it…. It’s the sound of money falling from the trees and landing on our heads. Our [Continue]