At 4:3o on Monday, April 20, at Rossland City Hall, citizens have a final opportunity to learn more about and provide input on the City’s draft 2026 – 2030 Financial Plan.   The Plan is available on the City’s website for all who want to learn more about where all those tax dollars go, and why.  […]

Real people, real change. Our community is proof that it’s possible. The Rossland Sustainability Commission invites the community to take part in Earth Week celebrations from April 21–25, with a lively series of events focused on learning, connection, and local climate action. Rooted in the belief that small, local actions can drive meaningful change, Earth […]

Rachel Carson’s 1962 book Silent Spring should have been a wakeup call to the world. It opened my eyes — and it’s a big part of the reason I started questioning my career in genetics and decided to devote my life to environmental causes. It exposed the limitations of reductionist Western science and showed how […]

Before the Committee-of-the Whole meeting to decide which applicants will get how much of the available funding, Rossland’s City Council members read and considered over 800 pages of  material from 64 applicants for Columbia Basin Trust’s ReDi Grant program. All Council members attended the meeting, as did CAO Bryan Teasdale, Executive Assistant Rachel Newton, and […]

It has become a habit to check the gas price every time I leave the neighbourhood. I would not have imagined that I would be seeing prices over $2.00 per litre a few months ago. Since I don’t yet own an electric vehicle, I choose ecodriving techniques to save money and realize that my choice […]

In Canada, progress on social and ecological justice often faces roadblocks. When women got the right to vote here in 1918, organizations sprang up to argue voting was incompatible with women’s “traditional roles.” When universal health care was introduced in the 1960s, doctors in Saskatchewan went on strike, accusing the government of exercising too much […]

When large tracts of forest are clear-cut, we lose more than the trees and their shelter and all the other plant and animal species they nurture and protect; we also lose water. Our demands for water are increasing. Growing populations, water-hungry industries (including fracking and nuclear power production) and the growth of data centres all […]

Canada is among the world’s most resource-rich countries. Forty per cent of its land is covered in forests. It holds 20 per cent of the world’s freshwater reserves. It’s the fourth-largest crude oil exporter. It produces more than 60 minerals and metals and ranks in the top five for 14 of them — critical to […]

B.C.’s Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) is seeking feedback on a newly proposed expedited environmental assessment process designed to reduce assessment timelines and support more efficient decision-making for major projects deemed to be in the public interest. The expedited process has been created for projects that are designated under the Infrastructure Projects Act, so they can […]

A new international order is emerging, according to representatives at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and at the Munich Security Conference — one of fragmented states acting in their own self-interest, sovereign fortresses sliding toward economic nationalism. A Munich conference statement places much of the blame on Canada’s neighbour: “The international order […]