"This is the scariest thing about the IPCC Report — it’s the watered down, consensus version." By Jon Queally, Staff Writer, Common Dreams If the latest warnings contained in Monday's report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—which included pronouncements that the world has less than twelve years to...

Last week I became a grandfather for the first time.  Politicians are fond of talking about what kind of future we will leave our grandchildren, but I can now say that having a grandchild sharpens that perspective dramatically. On Thanksgiving Monday, two news headlines jumped out at me, both dealing with our path to a...

News that Environment and Climate Change Canada is considering “priority threat management” to assess endangered species is troubling. The method is often used to inform a “triage” approach in which some species are abandoned to focus resources on others ranked higher priority. The federal government is legally required to ...

At Tuesday evening’s Public Hearing on the re-zoning of the land at 2812 Cedar Crescent in the Pinewood neighbourhood, some of those presenting their concerns kept repeating that the distance to downtown from that location “is unwalkable.” (To  me, the walkability or not was irrelevant to the re-zoning, because it would be ...

Introduction:  Both sides of the Proportional Representation debate have made claims about what the effects of a ProRep system would be.  Here, two Political Science specialists delve into the major claims made about ProRep by both sides. We’ll examine a different claim each week.  This week, we look at...

NOTE: This item is still up because more voters may need to read it before the election. Candidates who responded (all but one) have answered nine questions. This year, Rosslanders get to choose who will form our new City Council and shape Rossland for the next four years. Mayor Kathy Moore has been acclaimed, but we have six...

After months of negotiations and a seemingly endless series of false deadlines, negotiators have hammered out a new trade agreement between Canada, the USA and Mexico.  The new agreement (called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA for short) will create winners and losers, of course, and the general consensus...

“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...

The BC Court of Appeal has granted an interlocutory injunction against a drilling permit within the sacred sites of Teẑtan Biny (Fish Lake) and surrounding areas. On August 23, 2018, the B.C. Supreme Court upheld a permit authorizing Taseko Mines Limited (TML) to undertake an extensive drilling program at Teẑtan Biny and ...

By Jimmy Thompson; republished from The Narwhal Digging and scraping their way along river beds, a growing gold rush of placer miners is disturbing the territory of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation — all under the rules of a bygone era that leave both Indigenous and colonial governments out of ...