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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
Multiple Kamloops RCMP Detachment frontline officers and the Police Dog Services responded to a report of a shooting early today (Thursday, June 19, 2025). Just after midnight, police responded to a report of a male suffering from a gunshot wound in the 600 block of Seymour Street. The victim was located and transported to hospital by ambulance with serious injuries, the extent of which police said are unknown at this time.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
CANADA HAS MORE doctors than ever before but fewer of us (including me) have a family doctor. How can that be? What are they doing if not treating the 6.5 million Canadians without a doctor? A recent study published in the Annals of Family Medicine journal confirms the trend. Even though the study is based on Ontario Health Insurance Plan billing, the results are the same across Canada. Nationally, 40 per cent of doctors don’t treat those who are in of need medical attention.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTEJune 18, 2025 – Labour strife has become the norm in the relationship between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers over the past several years, evidenced by rotating strikes in 2018, a nationwide strike last November, and the ongoing conflict, which awaits a union vote.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Brian Giesbrecht |Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
By BRIAN GIESBRECHTFrontier Centre for Public PolicyI DON’T THINK Vladimir Putin has read Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal. If he had, he might have realized that Trump offered him and Volodymyr Zelensky the best deal they were likely to get to end their brutal war. Trump proposed a ceasefire that implied Putin could keep the Ukrainian territory his army had captured, creating space for serious negotiations. Zelensky understood and agreed. But Putin hasn’t.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |City Hall |City Issues |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson wants an independent forensic audit done of City operations to reduce waste and increase transparency, and he’s challenging any councillors who oppose the audit to explain themselves. The mayor introduced a notice of motion at last week’s council meeting and sent out a news release today (June 17, 2025) as a follow-up. His motion is expected to come up for debate at next week’s regular meeting.
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1 week ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
CANADA IS AT an interesting political crossroads at the moment. Prime Minister Mark Carney currently enjoys the advantage of ideological plasticity. Depending on the issue, and the public facing political hay that can be made from it, Carney has the option to swing towards the Conservative ideological right, or if he wants, he can move into NDP left leaning territory, to decide on a direction for any given issue.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
YESTERDAY CAME NEWS that most (many) conservative leaning B.C. voters have come to dread, time and time again – the formation of another splinter party – and it’s nothing new. This has happened repeatedly in the many years I have been involved in B.C. politics, going back far more years than I care to remember. Just for interest’s sake, this morning, I looked to see how many political party names have been registered, with Elections BC, in just the past 10 years. Care to take a guess? A dozen?
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. PRIME MINISTER Mark Carney’s promises to make Canada a global energy and resource super power might be bad news for Kamloops. Carney pledges to fight Donald Trump’s tariff and anti-Canada rhetoric include constant references to developing our resources at an elevated speed. And premiers are taking the opportunity to pressure him to do just that on a “me-first” basis.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTEJune 12, 2025 – The dust that is settling from the late-winter tariff blowup between Canada and the United States threatens to rise again with the slightest stir from President Donald Trump, but for now, Canadians have set the tariff threat aside in their top priorities.
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2 weeks ago | 
armchairmayor.ca | Armchair Mayor.ca |Page One |Mel Rothenburger
THERE ARE OBVIOUS advantages for the builders of AI data centres to locate in Kamloops. But they don’t create that many long-term jobs. Job creation is a routine part of the pitch from data centre operators when presenting their plans to municipalities. There may be some economic benefits but data centres can occupy large swaths of land and draw substantial quantities of electricity and water, all of which could be used for other purposes.
