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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Sylvain Charlebois |Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
Retailers are scrambling as shoppers reject U.S. brands. This isn’t an online tantrum – it’s a fundamental economic shiftBy SYLVAIN CHARLEBOISDalhousie UniversityWHILE GOVERNMENT ACTION has its limits, Canadian consumers are taking matters into their own hands, one grocery trip at a time.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
CHINA IS AUSTRALIA’S largest trading partner. Exports to China are 15 times those to America. Australia has leaned how global trading really works. Canada has been rewarded for its loyalty to the U.S. with punishing tariffs. Canada showed solidarity with Washington by imposing 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles and 25-per-cent levies on Chinese steel and aluminum. Look at how far that got us.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Stewart Prest |Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
By STEWART PRESTUniversity of British ColumbiaIN A DAY of congenial menace at the White House, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney picked his spots carefully. He got his key message across — but got a largely unrelated earful in exchange from United States President Donald Trump.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
CITY COUNCILLORS now say they’ll release a redacted version of a report to Municipal Affairs Minister Ravi Kaylon on dysfunction at City Hall within the next few weeks. Following on the heels of a refusal to release letters between Kaylon and councillors to the Armchair Mayor under Freedom of Information legislation, councillors have posted a news release on the City’s website summarizing the ground covered in the update to the minister.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
The generation gap foiled two would-be car thieves yesterday (May 4, 2025) when they tried to steal a vehicle with standard transmission. Just before 6 a.m., police received a report of a robbery that had occurred about an hour earlier on the 500-block of Victoria Street. Around 5 a.m., a person was in their vehicle in a parking lot and was approached by two masked men.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
LIKE PRECIOUS PENNIES, City Hall carefully guards its information and shares it cautiously. A week and a half ago, local media reported on discussions between Municipal Affairs Minister Ravi Kahlon and City council about the state of the Braun Report. That’s the one requested by council, commissioned by the Province and written by former Abbotsford mayor Henry Braun on dysfunction at City Hall.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
MORE THAN EVER, Canada needs a national electrical grid. President Trump has done Canada a favour. Not only has he managed to galvanize Canadians to vote Liberal but he has brought Quebec closer to to the federalist fold. And Trump has prompted a national fervour not seen since the World War 2. “They say you shouldn’t waste a good crisis,” says University of Calgary Professor Shaffer. “While the U. S.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
Drill presses, metal lathes, 3D printers, and airsoft guns were some of the items shown to media today (Thursday, May 1, 2025) to help provide further insight into a recent Kamloops investigation. Kamloops RCMP Supt. Jeff Pelley invited members of the local media to the Battle Street detachment to view and discuss equipment seized during an April 22 search warrant execution in Chase.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. LET’S GIVE CREDIT where credit is due. The outcome of the federal election is due — not entirely, but mainly — to one man, and we know who that is. Donald Trump gives himself credit for it, as he does for most other things. Ninety per cent of the time he’s as likely to be wrong as to be right but this time he’s correct.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. AS CANADIANS head into an all-important federal election, they will be haunted by the scene of a black SUV speeding into a crowd of people at the Lapu Lapu Day Festival in Vancouver. At this writing, the death toll has risen to at least 11, with many others injured. This act of mass murder is being called “senseless,” as such things often are. But, of course, “senseless” means having no purpose, and simply doesn’t apply, because there’s always a reason.
