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ROTHENBURGER – It was a great day to celebrate Canada, warts and all

July 2, 2022 // 0 Comments

IT WAS A GREAT Canada Day. All the Canada Day traditions were in evidence at Riverside Park. There were bagpipes, drums and flags, and the reaffirmation of citizenship. The [Continue]

CANADA DAY QUIZ – How much do you know about our National Flag?

July 1, 2022 // 1 Comment

Our national flag has managed to become a subject of controversy. To lighten things up a bit on Canada Day, here’s a fun quiz about the flag. Answers are at the bottom. [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Please, put the protests on hold tomorrow at Canada Day

June 30, 2022 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CANADIANS WILL CELEBRATE their country tomorrow, and “celebrate” is the key word. Maybe the excitement of getting outside for the annual [Continue]

EDITORIAL – City’s decision to take fireworks out of Canada Day is hasty

May 31, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’M NOT BUYING the City’s reasons for cancelling the fireworks display at this year’s Canada Day celebrations. Certainly, it’s great [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Canceling Canada Day won’t solve what ails our country

June 26, 2021 // 1 Comment

EACH JULY 1, we traditionally celebrate the diversity of our community and of our country. The usual celebrations at Riverside Park won’t happen this year, cancelled again [Continue]

PETERS – Statues, reconciliation and Canada Day 2021

June 12, 2021 // 0 Comments

WE’VE SAID BEFORE that societies don’t erect statues of people they want to simply remember; they erect statues of people they want to celebrate, to venerate, to hold up [Continue]

ARMCHAIR ARCHIVES – Things to know about ourselves on Canada Day

July 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

The Armchair Mayor is on staycay this week. In place of his usual daily editorials and column, we offer blasts from the past. The following column was originally published [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – For one day, Canada Day, can’t we all just have fun?

June 27, 2020 // 0 Comments

CANADA DAY WILL BE very different this year, but that’s stating the obvious. No art in the park, no multi-cultural food fair, no beer garden, no speeches or oath of [Continue]

CANADA DAY – Kamloops celebrations will carry on, virtually speaking

June 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Canada Day celebrations in Kamloops will carry on but there will be no crowds of thousands at Riverside Park. Instead, the City of Kamloops and Kamloops Arts Council, with [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The best thing about Canada Day was the absence of guilt

July 2, 2019 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKED best about Canada Day yesterday? No guilt, just joy. Sure, there were the usual mandatory references in speeches to [Continue]

GINTA – If we mean all that we say today….

July 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE AIR SMELLS SWEET and sticky; it smells of soapberries, though they are mere green blobs right now, so all I smell is a promise; I like it, it has a tinge of humbleness to [Continue]

Happy Canada Day to all!

July 1, 2019 // 2 Comments

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Canada Day festivities begin early and finish late

June 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

Canada Day festivities in Kamloops get underway at 7 a.m. at Riverside Park with the Lions pancake breakfast and finish up with the big fireworks display after dark. [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – You and I know less about Canada than we think we do

June 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

I CONSIDER MYSELF a good Canadian but, apparently, I’m not as good as I thought. The annual Historica.ca extreme trivia quiz is out. I barely passed it. Then I thought [Continue]