Opinion: Opportunity costs: can carbon taxing become a positive-sum game?
By John Quiggin, professor of Economics at Queensland University in Brisbane, for Aeon Climate change, caused by human activity, is arguably the biggest single problem facing the world today, and it is deeply entangled with the question of how to lift billions of people out of poverty without destroying the global environment...
La Cafamore presents a concert for string trio
La Cafamore moves into its 11th season with a concert featuring works for string trio. Violinist and co-founder of the group, Carolyn Cameron explains, “our initial group was a string quartet which we would sometimes expand to include piano or clarinet. Our current situation is a pool of five musicians. What arrangement we...
Opinion: Belief in Meritocracy is not only False; it's Morally Wrong
By Clifton Mark, for Aeon; edited by Nigel Warburton ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must create a level playing field for American companies and workers.’ Donald Trump,...
Two car crashes Tuesday prompt public warning about road conditions
Two separate MVIs Tuesday, within four km of each other, have underlined the hazardous seasonal road conditions. Castlegar RCMP Sgt. Darren Oelke said the first call came in at 12:56 p.m. for a crash on Hwy 3 West, near College Creek Forest Service Road. “The vehicle was driving on a straight stretch with a slight incline, ...
$50,000 to save forest above Cottonwood Lake may be too little, too late
Caught off guard by a plan to log more than 600 hectares of treasured local forest, residents near Cottonwood Lake discovered that privately owned lands can be clearcut without public notice, consultation with neighbours or the requirement to replant logged areas By Judith Lavoie, for The Narwhal Against a dramatic backdrop...
UPDATE: Two confirmed dead after Bombi MVI Monday
On Monday, March 4, at approximately 3:15 p.m., members of the West Kootenay Traffic Services along with Salmo and Castlegar Detachment attended to a two-vehicle head-on collision on Hwy 3 near the summit of the Bombi Pass between Castlegar and Salmo. Investigators have completed a preliminary investigation and confirmed that...
Winter Carnival Poster Contest Winner
Finn Adamson won the Rossland Winter Carnival Poster Contest and the $100 prize. Congratulations, Finn! Wisely, he plans to save that money toward his university education; he is now 10 years old and in Grade Four. Those years before he is ready for university will pass in a flash. Rossland’s Winter Carnival, like so many...
Fatal collision closes Hwy 3 on Bombi Pass near Salmo
On March 4, at approximately 3:20p.m., Police and Emergency Services responded to a head-on collision on Highway 3 on the Bombi Pass near Salmo. "Upon arrival it was determined that two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision and police can confirm two fatalities at this time," said a press release issued by RCMP. "The...
Airport angst prompts police potty patrol
A situation which could have seen tempers heating was easily managed, thanks to the upbeat reaction of the impacted person, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. “On Feb. 28, at 5 p.m., the Trail and Greater District RCMP Detachment responded to a call for assistance from a 54-year-old female who had been accidentally locked in the washroom by […]
Report: Baby boomers are bigger energy hogs than millennials, despite what they think
A new report by BC Hydro finds baby boomers think of themselves as the more energy-conscious generation, despite using more than double the electricity of millennials and annual costs being about $500 more. The report titled ‘Generation gap: Why baby boomers are not as ‘power smart’ as they may think’ found baby boomers have...
