Out-of-bounds skier found safe after overnight ordeal
Police are offering high praise to Red Mountain staff and local Search and Rescue teams after a mountainous search saw an Ontario man found safe. "On Thursday, Dec. 29 at 4:40 p.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer received a report that a 20-year-old Thunder Bay man went missing while skiing while out-of-bounds...
Opinion: Privatizing long-term care is a bad idea
Why for-profit homes won’t solve long-term care issues: Privatizing health services is a bad idea that just won’t go away Authors: Pat Armstrong, Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, York University, Canada, and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Professor emeritus, Simon Fraser University Canadian health economist Robert ...
Five ways to avoid pain and injury when starting a new exercise regime
By Lewis Macgregor, Lecturer in Sport, Health & exercise Science, University of Stirling (UK) Getting in the habit of exercising isn’t easy. Not only is finding the time to exercise a major deterrent for people, the fear of aches, pain and injuries is also a reason that people put off starting a new exercise regime. But...
Column: How Global Warming Causes Extreme Cold
[Editor's Note: The author's political commentary refers mainly to the U.S., but the scientific explanation he provides applies to Canada's extreme-cold winter weather events as well as those in the U.S.] By Thom Hartmann; originally published in...
COLUMN: Part Two -- An unprecedented political order coming?
Part One is the necessary introduction to Part Two. Please read it before reading this. Birth of the West: demokratia and demos in ancient Athens As I said in Part One, my Learning In Retirement at Selkirk College students are self-aware citizens; various puzzles for defining democracy came up in class when we spoke about...
Dec. 27 update on Highway 97C bus crash Christmas Eve
On Dec. 24, 2022 at approximately 18:14 hours the BC Highway Patrol and Merritt RCMP were advised of a single vehicle collision around Loon Lake on Hwy 97c east of Merritt BC. Police and emergency services responded and located a commercial E-bus that had gone off road to the left and rolled onto its passenger side coming to...
Fatal crash on Columbia Avenue Tuesday morning
Police are confirming some details regarding a fatal collision Tuesday morning, with Castlegar RCMP NCOIC Sgt. Monty Taylor indicating the cause of the crash was likely medical in nature. "I can confirm on Tuesday Dec. 20, just after 6:30 a.m., we received a report of a vehicle which struck a power pole in the 3200 block area...
COLUMN: An unprecedented political order coming?
In the time of not-yet-born/not-yet-dead for Western being Things are going to slide, slide in all directions Won't be nothing (won't be) Nothing you can measure anymore The blizzard, the blizzard of the world Has crossed the threshold And it's overturned The order of the soul. ...stuff it up the hole In your...
COLUMN: Without fungi -- no cheese, no wine, no food, no forests
If you’re celebrating the festive season with cheese, bread and a glass of wine, beer or kombucha followed by chocolate, it might be a good time to think about fungi. It’s what makes all those tasty items possible! In fact, almost all food production relies on fungi. Most plants need it to obtain nutrients and water. Trees ...
Smart watch erroneously dispatches police to Rossland
On Saturday, Dec. 10 at 9:53 a.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer received an emergency alert from a smart watch which stated that its owner had been in a severe car accident, in Rossland, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. "The GPS coordinates were provided as part of the message to police,"...
