News that Environment and Climate Change Canada is considering “priority threat management” to assess endangered species is troubling. The method is often used to inform a “triage” approach in which some species are abandoned to focus resources on others ranked higher priority. The federal government is legally required to ...

At Tuesday evening’s Public Hearing on the re-zoning of the land at 2812 Cedar Crescent in the Pinewood neighbourhood, some of those presenting their concerns kept repeating that the distance to downtown from that location “is unwalkable.” (To  me, the walkability or not was irrelevant to the re-zoning, because it would be ...

The BC SPCA has been coping with a massive intake of cats and kittens right across the province, including 111 cats surrendered to the BC SPCA’s South Okanagan Similkameen Branch in Penticton. “A total of 111 cats and kittens came in from the same owner, at a location in the 3600-block of Airport Road in Penticton,” says...

Rossland has a new Forest Park.  Come and get introduced to it – learn, and dig in to make it even better, and then have some celebratory BBQ! The Rossland Society for Environmental Action invites everyone to come and get grubby at the new Forest Park, on Sunday, October 14. Meet at the Red Barn Lodge at 9:00 a.m....

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...