Kamloops City council

CITY HALL – Special committee on committees picked and ready to work

March 29, 2023 // 1 Comment

The four-person committee charged with reviewing terms of reference for other committees will get down to work in April and May. Coun. Kelly Hall, the deputy mayor for March, [Continue]

GUEST COLUMN – How can mayor get anywhere in this hostile environment?

March 24, 2023 // 8 Comments

By BRONWEN SCOTT Guest Columnist AT TUESDAY’S SPECIAL MEETING, councillors were incensed that the mayor invoked Section 141 of the BC Community Charter to appoint [Continue]

McQUARRIE – Caution – Danger, Children At Work

March 22, 2023 // 3 Comments

IT HAS BECOME OBVIOUS, at least to an outsider, that power, control, and public spectacle have replaced substance, good government, and management at Kamloops City Hall. As [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Another he-said, they-said day in the Pandemonium Capital

March 22, 2023 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE WERE FROWNS, smirks, knowing glances and angry words as another day in the Pandemonium Capital of Canada played out in City council [Continue]

LETTER – City council, please put the kindergarten sandbox stuff aside

March 21, 2023 // 3 Comments

To Kamloops City Council: Your arguments need to be taken behind closed doors. I do not take a position on anything anymore. The he said, she said, I heard from, I read in, [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Leave their families out of it when criticizing City councillors

March 20, 2023 // 5 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THERE’S NO LONGER any doubt, is there, that the current City council is the most dysfunctional in the history of Kamloops? There’s [Continue]

CITY HALL – Councillors blast mayor for ‘chaotic’ and ‘erratic’ behaviour

March 17, 2023 // 9 Comments

The war of words between Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson and City councillors escalated today (March 17, 2023) with the councillors firing back over changes made by the mayor to the [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Dr. Armchair has a surefire cure for chronic councillitis

March 11, 2023 // 1 Comment

DO YOU HAVE a bad case of councillitis, one that keeps coming back every Tuesday? Are you on a City council that feels logy and sluggish, that suffers from head fog [Continue]

COLLINS – Bold moves by Kamloops council in budget

March 10, 2023 // 1 Comment

KAMLOOPS COUNCIL WANTED TO BE BOLD. And at this week’s meeting of the Committee of the Whole, they took some very bold steps. The committee supported a number of major [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Things are seriously out of order around council horseshoe

February 4, 2023 // 4 Comments

‘YOU’RE OUT OF ORDER! You’re out of order! The whole trial is out of order! They’re out of order!” That’s from one of my favourite Al Pacino movie speeches. I [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Deputy mayor is a backup goalie and it should stay that way

January 16, 2023 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WHAT’S THE JOB of the deputy mayor? What is he or she supposed to do? The answer is, as little as possible. That’s because the mayor’s [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Staggered civic elections would avoid ‘learning curve’ jitters

December 29, 2022 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THIS COMES UNDER the heading of “Advice, absolutely free of charge.” As the wet-behind-the-ears Kamloops City council emerges from the [Continue]

EDITORIAL – In face of a big tax hike, zero-based budgeting is a must

November 23, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE to start a new job and have to tell the people who hired you they’ll need to pay more to run the business? That’s [Continue]

EDITOR – Council proves absurdity of politics on parking, code of conduct

July 4, 2022 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. CONSISTENCY AND POLITICS don’t necessarily go together, a fact Kamloops City council made abundantly clear at its most recent meeting. [Continue]