Dear Rick Hansen: I hope that during your next 25 years of raising money for spinal cord research (SCR) we will see the end of inhumane, scientifically fallacious spinal cord experiments on animals. It was 25 years ago when Lifeforce, a Vancouver based ecology and animal rights organization, gave you extensive data about the failure […]

A Castlegar city councillor is using social media sites to try to gauge how much community support there is for allowing urban chicken husbandry within city limits. Kevin Chernoff, now serving his third term at the council table, says the majority of the people attending council on the issue are in support of the notion […]

As council divided the annual Community Initiatives Program (CIP) funding from the Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) among 37 applicants on Monday, one petitioner for an arts organization noted that it is difficult to get arts funding in a sports town like Rossland. But is that the case? Our numbers suggest otherwise.   We took the...

News website grioo.com reports that on April 15, 2012, Swedish Culture Minister, Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth, attended a exhibition preview at Museum of Modern Art of Stockholm to celebrate ‘World Art Day'. The highlight of the show seems to have been the tasting of the ‘Painful Cake' representing the body of an African woman, ...

The Traveler, the official newsletter of the Canadian Tourism Commission, recently reported that Rick Mercer chose Rossland as one of his five favourite small towns in Canada. Travel writer Michele Sponagle quotes Mercer: "It is stunningly beautiful," and the people are "so friendly." Mercer came to Rossland in February 2010...

In the Garden of Poems Haida Gwai   There once was a sad season when clouds veiled us from our wanting. And one poem in the garden drowned in all the rain, died under the hood of our hearts.   As we huddle beneath this canopy, a storm rages and tosses trees in the surf. Leaning our backs against this ancient cedar, we talk ...

“…Silently the birds fly through us.” Rilke   We did not begin here, you and me –  hence, this forest is still fresh with magic; ferns are tiny breaths, nightflowers are harlequins, trees shake loose the stars, our voices flutter and swoop; we are innuendo.   and the birds, silently the birds fly through us. Almeda Glenn...

Rossland’s own Sophie DeRosa has earned a top spot among Canada’s young literati for her poem, “A Day to Remember Our Soldiers,” that she submitted to the annual literary and poster contest sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion. Poppy chairperson Bobbi Lafond of Rossland’s Legion Branch No. 14 was “jumping for joy” at the ...

for BA We push off the side of the pool and spear our bodies through the water, eyes like whale eyes, our ancient selves. We mix up our strokes – fly, back, breast, free. I can’t do math, can’t do numbers, just words, so she adds up how much we’re paying for each length we swim.  We swim through her moods, my insecurities, ...

Columbia Power has provided $1000 in support of the 8th Annual Under 19 (U19) Film Festival, a showcase for youth filmmakers aged 10 through 18 years. The event occurs this Saturday at the Royal Theatre in Trail which will see prizes handed out in six categories for best short film in the genres of drama, documentary, animation,...