Coronavirus

ROTHENBURGER – Vaccine cards and the sudden switch to ‘fast food’ service

October 16, 2021 // 3 Comments

NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER of invention, and some Kamloops restaurants have been getting creative in order to legally skirt B.C.’s vaccine card law. Whether their methodology [Continue]

PETERS – Vaccine debate: Irresistible force versus the immovable object

October 16, 2021 // 0 Comments

MY FAVOURITE STORY OF THE WEEK was the one about Sadie, the sales-Husky. If you didn’t see it, the online story was about a wonderful, weird-looking dog who photobombs her [Continue]

LETTERS – Rules around COVID testing for travellers are inconsistent

October 15, 2021 // 1 Comment

Mel, I was just reading a news article about Point Roberts and how Canada requires a negative COVID test before someone returns to Canada from there. That’s ridiculous. [Continue]

Letter – Why don’t fast food restaurants have to follow the same COVID rules?

October 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

Can you tell me why places like coffee shops and fast food restaurants do not have to follow the same rules as other places? I was reciently in Tim Hortons in Sahali, [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The possibilities for exemption from vaccine mandates range from nil to zero

October 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

AS VACCINE MANDATES become normal across Canada, detractors are looking for ways to avoid the vaccination. Excuses range from medical exemption to what they hope are [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – ‘After you, Gaston’ game on teacher vaccinations must end

October 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TWO THINGS SHOULD HAPPEN now that Premier John Horgan says it’s up to school districts to decide whether or not teachers and support staff [Continue]

KERSHAW – Schools continue to be the safest places for our children

October 11, 2021 // 1 Comment

By RHONDA KERSHAW Chair, School District 73 Board ON OCTOBER 1, 2021, BC’s Provincial Health Officer, Dr. Bonnie Henry stated that there has been a more steady rise in [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Mandatory vaccinations the next step for schools

October 7, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIS IS HOW RIDICULOUS the fight against COVID in our schools has been. I was recently listening to one of those political discussions on [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – The ‘Disinformation Dozen’ and its anti-vaccine campaign

October 7, 2021 // 2 Comments

I’VE ALWAYS WONDERED why the pro-disease folks have nothing original to say. These antivaxxers parrot banality. It turns out that a small number of people generate a lot of [Continue]

COVID – How many restaurants do we really need in Canada?

September 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

Did we have too many restaurants before the COVID-19 pandemic? This may be a golden opportunity for the industry to reflect on its future By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS [Continue]

COVID – Canada’s crippled tourism industry must be revived

September 29, 2021 // 0 Comments

The impact of COVID on tourism is more significant than that of 9/11, SARS and the 2008 economic crisis combined By ALEXANDRE MASSAUX Research associate Frontier Centre for [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Mandatory vaccinations will keep more nurses on the job

September 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE RESIGNATION of Christine Sorenson as president of the B.C. Nurses Union might have gotten a lot more attention except for the fact it [Continue]

STOCKLAND – COVID-19 and the rise of the golden age of stupidity

September 19, 2021 // 2 Comments

The pandemic is making scapegoats of those that only yesterday we called fellow citizens and neighbours AMERICAN WRITER Lance Morrow recently identified our current moment as [Continue]

WALSH – We need to respect each other during these tense COVID times

September 19, 2021 // 1 Comment

By DENIS WALSH City Councillor, Kamloops AS A CITY COUNCILLOR, I have seen the extreme tensions, emotions and overt hostilities that have arisen in Kamloops in various ways [Continue]