RSS, Wildsight and FORRS working together
It's common knowledge: spending time in the outdoors is good for our health and our brains. People learn best from experience, and we also learn best when we're young; hence the growing interest in outdoor education and experiential learning. Early in October, a crew of young people from Rossland Summit School (RSS) were...
Time to rally support for the Nelson Hospice Day Program
There’s another golden opportunity on the horizon for the public to support a good cause as the Nelson & District Hospice Society and the Kalein Centre join together to compete for the Aviva Community Health Funding Grant. The Health Grant is part of the Aviva Community Funding competition. The NDHS and Kalein Centre are...
UPDATED: Steelworkers, Kootenay Savings Credit Union headed for labour disruption
It appears Kootenay Savings Credit Union is headed for a major labour disruption. United Steelworkers Union 1-404 and 9705 members served 72-hour strike notice on Kootenay Saving Credit Union Monday night in Trail the union said in a media release Tuesday. Kootenay Savings Credit Union countered by serving the Steelworkers ...
Opinion: Putting patient food in the hands of corporations reveals the trouble with normal
It's amazing what we gradually accept as normal -- even admirable -- in how we treat each other in Canada. Practices that were once seen as a repugnant surrender to government indifference, like food banks, are now virtually celebrated as a high point of citizen engagement and promoted as such by our public broadcaster once...
COLUMN: Fight Colds and Flu with Blue Elderberry
With the start of frosty nights, I’m seeing the blue elderberries turn their purple-blue colour, so it’s time to start thinking about making your elderberry tincture. As long as they’re that wonderful dark purple-blue colour, it’s time to pick them and make one of the best flu busters there is. Elderberries are an incredibly...
OP/ED: CUPE BC condemns Province's firing of Vancouver school board
Today's news that Premier Christy Clark has fired the democratically elected Vancouver School Board shows that her education agenda is more about closing schools than providing quality public education, CUPE BC President Paul Faoro said today. "The Vancouver School Board trustees who stood up to this government's efforts to...
TSB said no Cockpit Voice Recorder on plane that crashed in Lake Country
The Transportation Safety Board said it will take the time needed to complete a thorough investigation of the fatal plane crash near Lake Country that killed four people Thursday. The twin-engine Cessna Citation disappeared from radar at 9:40 p.m. PT on Thursday, only 11 kilometres north of Kelowna Airport after takeoff from...
ANKORS warns users of drug making rounds, possibly cut with Fentanyl
At least two people in Nelson have overdosed on a green powder that is likely Fentanyl an ANKORS representative told The Nelson Daily. The ANKORS rep said one person was taken to Kootenay Lake Hospital while the other was revived using Naloxone, after they overdosed on a green powder purchased online. While there hasn’t been...
Extreme weather response shelters open early
Storm season has arrived earlier than usual this year, and as a result, the Province is providing early funding to any Extreme Weather Response (EWR) shelter in British Columbia that is prepared to open early. While the EWR season officially runs from Nov. 1 to March 31, almost 30 EWR shelters across Metro Vancouver and around...
UPDATED: Former Alberta Premier Jim Prentice confirmed killed in Lake Country plane crash
The RCMP is saddened to confirm that four individuals have been killed in a plane crash that occurred late Thursday night, October 13 in Lake Country. Media agencies have confirmed one the four people on the plane was former Alberta premier Jim Prentice. Prentice, 60, was aboard a twin-engine Cessna Citation that disappeared from radar […]
