Op/Ed: The folly of gendered products
By Samantha Brennan, in The Conversation As women started counting steps and walking to work wearing running shoes and fitness trackers, there was one work-related item that had to change: the briefcase. It’s not suited to walking fast and gets in the way of drinking coffee en route to the office. Enter the working women’s ...
Province will act to discourage vaping
The Province will restrict vapour product access, flavours, nicotine content, packaging and advertising, and intends to increase taxes on vapour products, to protect youth from risks associated with vaping. “Some vaping manufacturers are using flavours and advertising to entice and normalize vaping for youth – introducing a...
BC taxpayers subsidized fracking companies to the tune of 1.2 billiion in two years
Although the amount of natural gas fracked in the northeast corner of the province has increased by 70 per cent over the last decade, British Columbia is increasingly out of pocket when it comes to collecting on this industry's resource royalties, according to newly released data By Judith Lavoie, for The Narwhal Fossil fuel...
Column: Forming bonds in times of crisis
The climate and ecological crises touch each of us to varying degrees. Some carry the emotional weight of worrying about what kind of diminished, unstable world we’re leaving for our children while others are directly, physically affected by climate-fuelled disasters like storms, wildfires, droughts and changing wildlife...
Op/Ed: Canada doesn't protect whistleblowers, and they're at serious risk.
By Paloma Raggo, for The Conversation Whistleblowers put their careers, and sometimes their safety, on the line to protect democratic ideals and the public interest. Canada, like its southern neighbour, is not immune to whistleblowing controversies at the highest levels of government. Would a whistleblower be protected in...
Column: From the Hill -- a message from our re-elected MP
I want to start by saying that it’s a great honour and privilege to be re-elected as the Member of Parliament for South Okanagan-West Kootenay. I’ll continue to work hard to live up to the responsibility of that position. It was a hard-fought campaign, and the landscape of Canadian politics has shifted somewhat. We have a...
An invitation for Rosslanders
Mayor Kathy Moore has an invitation for Rosslanders who are interested in our region’s goal of 100% renewable energy. She invites everyone to attend a public workshop in the Lily May Room at the Miners Hall, and contribute thoughts and ideas and responses to other ideas . . . and have some pizza. Read on, and then mark...
Province moves to do away with time changes -- at some future date
The Province has introduced the interpretation amendment act to allow for a future move to permanent daylight saving time (DST) after 93% of British Columbian respondents indicated support for the change in a record-breaking public engagement. “British Columbians have said loud and clear that they want to do away with the...
Editorial Rant: Lying in politics -- so common, so corrupt
Politics. Election campaigns. Lies. Is anyone else out there infuriated by how closely those three things are linked? Why should politicians have some sort of 007-like “License to Lie”? I say they shouldn’t. In Canada, people are given some protection against false or misleading advertising. There’s the voluntary “Canadian...
Rossland’s (proposed) Mid-town Transition Project – What’s going on?
On Tuesday evening, October 29, the Miners Hall was well-populated with residents viewing the explanatory displays and seeking more details from the City staff members present. The proposed development is for affordable housing on three stories above a ground-floor space which could, if things work out, house a new City Hall,...
