Election 2019

ROTHENBURGER – Gut instinct might still be the best election poll of all

October 12, 2019 // 0 Comments

WHILE THE REST OF US make election predictions based on the science of gut instinct, idle speculation and wishful thinking, there are actual experts at work using more [Continue]

LETTER – If advance polling station is an indication, election day won’t be easy

October 12, 2019 // 7 Comments

I’m one of those seniors who thought they would take part in the advance polling opportunity in Kamloops. I went to my station, in the United Church on St. Paul Street, [Continue]

LETTER – Greens’ Iain Currie has made this election a three-person race

October 10, 2019 // 1 Comment

At the start of this election the conventional wisdom had it that Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo would be a fight between two political heavyweights, the Conservative incumbent [Continue]

BEPPLE – Do we go with experience, or with some fresh ideas Oct. 21?

October 10, 2019 // 3 Comments

IF ALL IT TOOK WAS EXPERIENCE, either incumbent Conservative Cathy McLeod or Liberal candidate Terry Lake would bound to be the winner in the Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo riding [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Forum proves need for debate between Lake, McLeod, Currie

October 9, 2019 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. FEDERAL ELECTION FORUMS at the local level aren’t of much value when it comes to party policies because we’ve heard it all before from [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Leaders’ debate zingers a case of deja vu all over again

October 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

DURING THE B.C. ELECTION LEADERS DEBATE of 1991, NDP leader Mike Harcourt and Social Credit leader Rita Johnson were going at each other hammer and tongs. A young Gordon [Continue]