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5 days ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
How Trump’s tariffs are hurting the worldwide economy and especially his own country, a further slowdown for Canada’s home sales, and why telecoms are so important for our economic well being…in your June 3 edition of Canada’s Business Beat. Click on the microphone to link to audio.
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5 days ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
IT’S NOT EASY being an ostrich. In the wild, they have to contend with lions, leopards, hyenas and human hunters. In captivity, on farms, they’re usually shipped to the slaughter house at a few months of age where various methods — none pleasant — are used to kill them. They’re farmed for meat, eggs, leather, oil and feathers. They, are, in short, poultry, very large poultry, comparatively smart as birds go, and cute in their own way.
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5 days ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
Re: FEATURED COMMENT – Issue isn’t need for bike lane, it’s need for connectivityWe screwed up and now we have to take our lumps, a simple mea culpa isn’t enough, it’s just the first step and we can’t even muster up the integrity to do that. Yes the 6th Avenue bike path was a “boondoggle” and yes we as a collective in the Kamloops Cycling Association advocated for it and now we must take some responsibility for it.
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6 days ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
Mosquitoes in the North Thompson Valley will be targeted for control by the TNRD this week beginning today (June 2, 2025). Aerial applications will start in the Vavenby area and continue south towards Kamloops. If necessary, applications may occur in the Sun Peaks area as well. Application involves the use of a low flying helicopter that will apply Vectobac 200G to areas infested with mosquito larva.
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6 days ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
Cleared for takeoff! Canada’s airports reporting positive economic news, why the Bank of Canada probably won’t be cutting interest rates this week, and wildfires are affecting oil production again…in your Monday, June 2 edition of Canada’s Business Beat with Bob Price. Click on microphone to link to audio.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
Ideas come and go for projects that would bring tourism to Kamloops and the region. Most never get off the ground but the point is, we keep thinking them up. I’ll bet you didn’t remember, or never knew about, the Rainbow Railroad proposal, a proposal that came even before the resurrection of 2141. I wrote the following column for the Kamloops news, published May 9, 1986. FROM SOMEWHERE deep in the hinterland — namely Barriere-Little Fort — has come an idea.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
NOTE: This is the second part of a two-part column on City council boondoggles. THIS TIME we are talking about the planned Summit Connector TRU pedestrian overpass bridge and the intersection at Summit and McGill. From what we learned last year, the City put its foot down and forced TRU into accepting their location of this pedestrian overpass over the Summit Connector, linking TRU with all points east of Summit Drive.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
I HAVE TO LAUGH at the emails I receive from the BC NDP. There’s never a time they don’t outright trash the BC Conservative Party but, hey, all parties do it, right? Still, I found yesterday’s email very entertaining because of their so-called two key points about the Conservatives, and of course their solicitation of donations.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
Kamloops police are releasing the name of a man who was murdered May 31, 2024 in an effort to continue to advance the investigation. On May 31, 2024, at approximately 12:08 a.m., Kamloops RCMP frontline officers were called to the 2500-block of the Trans Canada Highway East for a report of a person who had been shot. Police arrived and located a deceased man in one of the rooms. The man has since been identified as Keenan James Robertson.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Mel Rothenburger
The Kamloops RCMP Detachment is seeking public assistance to locate missing woman Katherine Gillis. Gillis, who is 42 years old, and spends most of her time in Kelowna, was last seen in Kamloops on the North Shore area on Monday, May 26, 2025, in the afternoon and has not been seen since. “Katherine told a family member she was intending on going to Chase,” said Cpl. Dana Napier, spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP.
