Editor's Note: In this age of fake news, when politicians are allowed to lie with impunity -- perhaps even encouraged to lie, because they appear to get good results by lying -- how are people reading the news, or social media, where bizarre fake news abounds -- to know what to believe? For that matter, is it ever a good idea...

Musician Carly Dow will be at the Flying Steamshovel on November 9th.  She calls her sound “wildcrafted folk music” and she’s been sharing it with appreciative audiences across Canada since 2013.  With roots in Manitoba’s music community and professional training as an environmental scientist, she knows how to look closely ...

Rossland’s Laura Jackman is one of the educators who took home awards from the 2018 Canadian Environmental Education Conference. Jackman is described as “a fearless guide in environmental education in School District 20. She has created and implemented a now community-wide, weeklong Bio Blitz, a celebration of environmental...

Bring on the snow!  The latest day-use shelter for free, self-propelled public recreation in the  Rossland Range Recreation Site  has an expansive view to enjoy along with those grilled (or charred) cheese sandwiches, or whatever form of lunch or snack skiers, snowshoers, fat bikers or hikers prefer. It’s...

War, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin.’   -- pop song, 1968 War is the Father of us all.   – Herodotus, Greek historian, 5th C. BCE War is over, if you want it.     – John Lennon Forgive me Lord, I do so love it.  – General Patton, American Army War is the typical normal condition of humanity, not peace.   – James...

Entertainment!  As the days draw in and darkness takes over the afternoons, getting together for music, song, dancing and laughter helps keep life fun and repels the dismals.  Here are four kinds of relief coming up locally, in order of appearance: Friday, November 2, at the Bailey Theatre in Trail: Cheesecake Burlesque – an...

Climate scientists have said that planting trees can help to combat climate change. Some of Rossland's students have been helping with that.    Last Friday,  students of Ecole des Sept-Sommets planted over 150 trees and shrubs in the southeast corner of their school yard. These plants, some native plants ...

Having read the challenging piece on May 14, 'You don't have the right to believe whatever you want to', I feel that since the piece was intended to be challenging, perhaps it should be challenged. The basic premise of the text by Professor DeNicola was that some beliefs are too toxic for people to be allowed to hold them. ...

By Stephen T. Asma, from Aeon Religion does not help us to explain nature. It did what it could in pre-scientific times, but that job was properly unseated by science. Most religious lay-people and even clergy agree: Pope John Paul II declared in 1996 that evolution is a fact and Catholics should get over it. No doubt some ...

“All along the watchtower…There's too much confusion, the hour is getting late...                                             Bob Dylan “Here we are in the years… Children cry in fear, ‘let us out of here.’”                                   Neil Young By Charles Jeanes So much food for thought, and limited space on the plate...