LETTER – How to celebrate National Indigenous People’s Day on Sunday
This Sunday, June 21, is National Indigenous People’s Day. It’s a day for celebrating the culture and heritage of First Nations, Inuit and Metis people across the [Continue]
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EDITORIAL – Summit overpass proposal hasn’t improved with age
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. TUCKED AWAY IN A MOTION to add several capital project allocations back into the City’s five-year financial plan yesterday was a brief [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Free parking at TRU for indigenous students a worthy idea
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PARKING AT THOMPSON RIVERS UNIVERSITY is always controversial but there’s a new twist — a petition is asking that all indigenous [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Deaths of students in car wreck are a loss to entire community
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT’S TRAGIC WHEN ANYONE DIES in an accident but it’s especially sad when a visitor from another country is killed here. I’m talking, [Continue]
FIRST AVENUE CRASH – TRU president’s statement on death of students
A message from TRU President Brett Fairbairn It is with great sadness and regret that I have informed our university community that four of our students – current and [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Junk publishers threaten what we know
MOST OF WHAT we know is not from our day-to-day experience. If I were to trust my intuition, I would believe that the Earth is flat. I depend on others who have studied our [Continue]
LETTER – American university students pay their share of taxes
Re: Editorial, Why international students should and must pay more, Jan. 15, 2019 As a U.S. student, this is pretty offensive, though it is not trying to be. It suggests that [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Best response to protesters: let them yell in a vacuum
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. EVERYBODY’S TIPTOEING around this week’s anti-pipeline protest at Thompson Rivers University. The police, the university, federal [Continue]
EDUCATION – Telling the full story of the salmon with new curriculum
By KIM ANDERSON Thompson Rivers University WHEN DR. NAN STEVENS’ son penned a story on the life cycle of salmon while in Grade 4, few could’ve predicted it would be [Continue]
EDITORIAL – City taxpayers shouldn’t pay for TRU’s pedestrian overpass
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I CAN’T THINK of a worse place to spend a few million dollars worth of City taxpayers’ money than building a pedestrian overpass across [Continue]
TRU – Birds, barnacles and the HMS Beagle: Dickinson channels Darwin
By MICHELE YOUNG Thompson Rivers University To say that TRU Dean of Science Tom Dickinson is a fan of Charles Darwin is like saying the world is a little bit round. Complete [Continue]
BEPPLE – We need to do much more to protect pedestrians day-to-day
THE BRUTAL pedestrian deaths by vehicle in Toronto last week are sobering. So many dead in one act is unprecedented and hard to fathom. Hopefully, the event won’t be [Continue]
ROTHENBURGER – Running a big university is not an easy gig
THE ANNOUNCEMENT of Thompson Rivers University’s new president had scarcely been made before word got around about a high-profile incident he’d been involved in at his [Continue]
TRU – University names Saskatchewan prof as new president
Thompson Rivers University today (April 12, 2018) announced Dr. Brett Fairbairn as its next president and vice-chancellor. Fairbairn has taught and conducted research at the [Continue]
