Council Matters: Rossland City Council Meeting, October 6, 2025
Concerned about City spending, and taxes? Pay attention to the Five-Year Financial Plan. Go to the event on October 27, learn more, ask questions and speak up about what’s important to you. PRESENT: Mayor Andy Morel and Councillors Maya Provençal, Stewart Spooner, Lisa Kwiatkowski (remote), Craig Humpherys and Jeff Weaver. Absent: Eliza Boyce Staff: CAO […]
Celebrate International Credit Union Day
Nelson & District Credit Union is celebrating 75 years of service and community impact in conjunction with International Credit Union Day on Thursday, October 16th, 2025. “Nelson & District Credit Union has been an integral part of growth and progress in Nelson, Rossland, the East Shore and everywhere in between for 75 years,” says Tom […]
Column: Polar Geoengineering Experiments
Because the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have done everything they can to stall needed solutions to the climate crisis, some people say we must now engineer our way out of the mess we created. Many are promoting schemes that block sunlight from reaching Earth, reflect more of it back into space or absorb […]
SRRAC is applying for a judicial review
The Save Record Ridge Action Committee (SRRAC) has filed a petition for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court, challenging an Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) decision not to require an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed Record Ridge magnesium mine. “We are asking the Supreme Court to send this decision back to the EAO, directing it […]
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council Meetings, September 15, 2025
At the CoW: discussing how best to support community groups and keep spending within reason … living in la la land? At the regular Council meeting: Should Rossland have an air quality monitor? More from the Family Action Network; the pool needs two new boilers; Council refuses a request to spend $200,00 on renovations to […]
United Steelworkers encouraged by proposed Anglo/Teck merger
The United Steelworkers union (USW) is expressing cautious optimism over a proposed merger of mining giants Teck Resources and Anglo American that will affect over 2,500 USW members at the Highland Valley Copper mine and the Trail Smelting Operations in British Columbia. “In announcing this proposed merger, statements by executives from Teck Resources and Anglo […]
Teck and Anglo American to combine through merger of equals, HQ to be in Vancouver
Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TECK.A and TECK.B, NYSE: TECK) (“Teck”) and Anglo American plc (“Anglo American”) announce they have reached an agreement to combine the two companies in a merger of equals (“the Merger”) to form the Anglo Teck group (“Anglo Teck”), a global critical minerals champion and top five global copper producer, headquartered in […]
Column: The Silenced Majority
Most people worldwide want action on climate change. A significant majority would even be willing to give up some of their income to help. You wouldn’t learn that from most mainstream media or politicians. A 2024 survey of 130,000 people in 125 countries, published in Nature Climate Change, found 89 per cent want “intensified political […]
Editorial: About that Environmental Assessment Office decision
In Rossland, there is joy for some, and consternation for others in the decision of the Environmental Assessment Office: there will be no Environmental Assessment of the West High Yield (WHY) proposal for an open-pit magnesium mine on Record Ridge. Both the joy and the consternation may be premature; as Alex MacLennan, the author of […]
Column: Our economy, and how our stories steer it
This economic story doesn’t end well. Let’s change it! The natural world is foundational to every aspect of our lives. We all need food, air and water. But nature is not our sole underpinning; stories are also foundational. Without them, we wouldn’t be able to make sense of the world or create meaning within it. […]
