Advisory – Parking at KBRH during construction
We’re getting an expanded Emergency Department, and significant electrical upgrades, at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital. As with most operations, there’s some pain involved; people coming to the hospital will be faced with change and inconvenience for parking and access. Interior Health (IH) asks everyone coming to the...
Electoral Reform: Checking the Facts -- Part Two
Introduction: Both sides of the Proportional Representation debate have made claims about what the effects of a ProRep system would be. Here, two Political Science specialists delve into the major claims made about ProRep by both sides. We’ll examine a different claim each week. This week, we look at...
Op/Ed: What do we have a right to believe? A counter-argument
Having read the challenging piece on May 14, 'You don't have the right to believe whatever you want to', I feel that since the piece was intended to be challenging, perhaps it should be challenged. The basic premise of the text by Professor DeNicola was that some beliefs are too toxic for people to be allowed to hold them. ...
NDP gets its knuckles rapped by Elections BC
VICTORIA – Administrative monetary penalties have been issued and posted on the Elections BC website at https://elections.bc.ca/resources/investigations/administrative-monetary-penalties. In 2017 the Election Act was amended to give the Chief Electoral Officer the authority to levy administrative monetary penalties in specific...
Choose your new City Council! Here are the candidates' answers.
NOTE: This item is still up because more voters may need to read it before the election. Candidates who responded (all but one) have answered nine questions. This year, Rosslanders get to choose who will form our new City Council and shape Rossland for the next four years. Mayor Kathy Moore has been acclaimed, but we have six...
COLUMN: From the Hill -- the new trade agreement
After months of negotiations and a seemingly endless series of false deadlines, negotiators have hammered out a new trade agreement between Canada, the USA and Mexico. The new agreement (called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA for short) will create winners and losers, of course, and the general consensus...
Open burning now allowed in Boundary
BC Wildfire said in a media release that Category 3 open fires are again permitted in the Boundary Fire Zone. Campfires and Category 2 open burning are already allowed in the Boundary Fire Zone and throughout the Southeast Fire Centre's jurisdiction. Anyone wishing to light a Category 3 open fire must obtain a burn registration...
UPDATED: Don't vote for Zwicker! He explains why.
[Ed.: Please -- do NOT vote for Andrew zwicker in the upcoming civic election. He has withdrawn from candidacy, but too late to have his name taken off the ballot. If people vote for him anyway in a misguided show of support, it would trigger an expensive by-election and cost taxpayers money. And no, the City is not allowed...
Op/Ed: Religion is very good at managing emotion
By Stephen T. Asma, from Aeon Religion does not help us to explain nature. It did what it could in pre-scientific times, but that job was properly unseated by science. Most religious lay-people and even clergy agree: Pope John Paul II declared in 1996 that evolution is a fact and Catholics should get over it. No doubt some ...
Electoral Reform: Checking the facts -- Part one
Electoral reform fact check: the series -- #1 Both sides of the Proportional Representation (“ProRep”) debate have made claims about what the effects of a ProRep system would be. What should voters believe? Here, two Political Science specialists delve into the major claims made about ProRep by both sides, to distinguish...
