North Shore

LETTER – Kamloops in a state of siege: ‘We own these streets so F-off’

May 13, 2021 // 10 Comments

Mayor Ken Christian Superintendent Syd Lecky, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Re: Community Criminality and Lack of Accountability. “We Own These Streets so F-off” This is [Continue]

EDITORIAL – We need to stop stigmatizing North Shore in crime reports

August 5, 2020 // 0 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I WONDER HOW MANY TIMES it has to be said before we stop stigmatizing the North Shore as the crime centre of the city. Case in point. There [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Answering the challenge to see into North Shore’s future

July 11, 2020 // 4 Comments

IS THE NORTH SHORE a neighbourhood or a community? I say the latter — in fact it’s a whole bunch of neighbourhoods put together — but whichever it is, it’s up for [Continue]

HEIGHTON – Community leaders, please keep up the great work in this crisis

March 19, 2020 // 1 Comment

IT IS TIMES LIKE THESE that I consider my past trips to third world countries to assist in community development initiatives. In the countries I have been to, the basics of [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Scrap the new trail and build more sidewalks instead

February 13, 2020 // 7 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. SIDEWALKS ARE NOTHING MORE than long strips of concrete but they play a tremendously important role in the health of a city. I thought about [Continue]

FEATURED COMMENT – North Shore is ignored but she’s proud to live there

February 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

Re: North Shore continues to struggle with weak-sister image We aren’t the weak sister, Mel, we barely qualify as a distant relative when it comes to city hall. My [Continue]