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EDITORIAL – The time has come to plan for a new Kamloops city hall building

November 21, 2023 // 4 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SOMETHING THAT HASN’T received nearly enough attention is the need for a new Kamloops city hall. Maybe that’s changing. A report to a [Continue]

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]

ROTHENBURGER – We don’t have a moral obligation to give drug users free rein

November 18, 2023 // 5 Comments

CHALLENGES TO NEW restrictions on public consumption of illicit drugs show just how far things have gotten out of whack in our society. Increasingly, it seems, those who [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]