GenSqueeeze responds to BC's Budget announcement
By Paul Kershaw For younger British Columbians, BC's budget is built on fantasy. Secure a great job. Own a home. Keep more of our hard-earned money. That’s the promise of BC according to the Premier and Finance Minister. Problem is, that promise is becoming a fairy tale, since B.C. is now the worst performing economy in Canada...
Penalties coming up for un-metered water connections; a large contaminated site? A question of close friends; no chairs thrown.
Rossland City Council held its regular scheduled meeting at 6:00 pm on Monday, February 20, having also held a Committee-of-the-Whole (CoW) meeting at 10:00 am on Wednesday, February 15....
CBT puts new economic development plan into action
Columbia Basin Trust has a vision for economic growth and is putting a new plan into action. The Trust is purchasing a commercial building in the Waneta Industrial Park near Trail and working with a local tech industry entrepreneur to fill the facility with new jobs and new opportunities in what it sees as a model for future...
Column: The Mind-Blowing Monarch and Minister McKenna
Federal Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna had her mind blown recently. Remarkably, it had nothing to do with the political gong show south of the border. McKenna was visiting the hilltop monarch butterfly reserves in rural Mexico. There she saw millions of monarchs clinging to oyamel fir trees in...
Editorial: Modest proposals for building a better world
In a previous editorial, I wrote about how we survive the sense of futility and powerlessness that comes of watching our governments, and, often, our mainstream press, ignore crucial information and fail to act to prevent disaster. This one suggests how we could exert our power, if enough of us are onboard. We sometimes yap...
Letter to the Editor
Editor, The Rossland Telegraph: I have disliked the politics of liberals all my active political life as a socialist, yet as people they are most often my friends and the next-best-thing to socialists. Liberals work harmoniously within capitalism but I am far from accepting that attitude. Liberals have had a dominant position...
British Columbia's carbon tax not revenue neutral, despite government’s commitment
British Columbia’s carbon tax is no longer revenue neutral and could actually result in almost $900 million in higher taxes over a six-year period, finds a new study by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank.
Nine out of ten elementary schools in B.C. showing improvement were public, according to annual ranking
Independent elementary schools in British Columbia continue to perform well above average, but this year more than 90 per cent of all elementary schools in the province that showed significant improvement are public, according to the Fraser Institute’s annual ranking of B.C. elementary schools released today.
Social Licence and Political Process: Democracy in the Streets, in the Media and in Electoral Institutions
What does democracy look like? Protest and Legitimacy...
Representative for Children and Youth: Alex's Story Prompts Acting Rep to Recommend Key Changes
Lacking any permanent connection to his family and culture and without the mental health supports that might have made a difference, an 18-year-old Métis youth in care took his own life in an act of desperation, says an investigative report issued today by British Columbia’s Acting Representative for Children and Youth....
