Additional communal bear-resistant bin and location
The City of Rossland will have an additional communal bear-proof garbage bin and an additional location. Peak bear activity season is fast approaching, Natural Control Alternatives Society (NCA) has partnered with the City of Rossland to enhance NCA’s current communal bear-proof public bin service in Rossland. As of Monday,...
COLUMN: Science, anti-science, pseudo-science . . . PART TWO
PART II Power, again If humans can exercise control over consciousness with the methods, tools, and technologies of neuroscience, maybe we can make “better humans” who will not go extinct. That is of course not the kind of thinking Charles Eisenstein likes to indulge because it is more of the old story of separation-and-control...
Amazing Doggy Mom leads SPCA officer to her newborn puppies
When her nine newborn puppies urgently needed help, new mom Dallas teamed up with a BC SPCA animal protection officer to get them to safety. “Dallas had been left to fend for herself on a property near Agassiz when she gave birth,” says Eileen Drever, senior officer for protection and stakeholder relations for the...
AC/BC: air conditioning use leads to higher summer electricity demand in B.C.
BC Hydro data shows a rise in air conditioning (AC) use in B.C. homes has significantly increased summer electricity demand and it is forecasting this upward trend will continue due to climate change. The new report titled, “AC dependency: summer demand for electricity increasing with AC use,” shows since 2017 BC Hydro...
Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy newsletter
Dear Neighbours, Friends and Community Members, The history of the equal rights movement for 2SLGBTQ+ people is generally thought to have started in 1969 in New York City where a riot began at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, in response to years of suppression. Pride began as a protest and that work continues ...
Category 3 burning to be prohibited in the Southeast
Effective at noon on Thursday, June 30, 2022, Category 3 open burning, as defined in the Wildfire Regulation, will be prohibited throughout the Southeast Fire Centre, which includes the Rocky Mountain Natural Resource District and the Selkirk Natural Resource District. The BC Wildfire Service is implementing this prohibition...
Province scraps $789M museum rebuild
The Province is halting plans announced last month to rebuild the Royal British Columbia Museum. The museum will remain open to visitors. The Royal BC Museum will now lead a broad public engagement to consider all options for the future of the museum. “I always try to act in the best interests of British Columbians,” said...
COLUMN: People suffer while climate disrupters profit
The lineage of our human species has survived for several million years thanks to a wondrous, interconnected evolution of factors resulting in air to breathe, water to drink and plants, fungi, animals and minerals for food, shelter, tools and clothing. For most of that time, our ancestors lived in relative harmony with the ...
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meetings, June 20, 2022
Committee of the Whole talks recreation; Praise for financial statements; Crisis for the Curling Club; Dumpsters for the arena parking lot, coming soon; our Bylaw Enforcement Officer will be official; various variances . . . and more Present: Acting Mayor Andy Morel and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Terry Miller, Stewart Spooner,...
Care Bear program coming to Grand Forks RCMP
The Grand Forks Hospital Auxiliary has teamed up with the Grand Forks RCMP and Boundary Regional Victim Services Unit to bring the Care Bear Program to Grand Forks. This program has many names such as the Teddy Bear or Trauma Bear program, and exists throughout North America. In Grand Forks, we now have the Care Bear program....
