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]
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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]
EDITORIAL – Where’s the very worst place to park? Hint: it’s not downtown
An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IF I ASKED you, “What’s the worst parking experience in the world?” you’d probably answer, “downtown Kamloops.” [Continue]
PASSING – TRU’s vice president Christopher Seguin dies in hospital
Thompson Rivers University Vice President of Advancement Christopher Seguin has died. The shocking news came this evening (Friday, Sept. 22, 2017) after it was announced [Continue]
LETTER – TRU’s full professors are chronically under-paid in comparison
Higher education doesn’t usually get the attention it deserves during provincial election campaigns. That’s unfortunate, because since Kamloops received a free-standing [Continue]
GUEST COLUMN – Joyful quantum confessions of a mature student
IT IS SO important to get out and get street smarts before going on to higher learning. By the time I got to Simon Fraser University they called me a mature student. For [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Steven Galloway’s troubles could have been avoided
AWARD-WINNING Kamloops author Steven Galloway has problems of his own making. They could have been avoided. Galloway was raised in Kamloops and attended the University [Continue]
