Imagine “It’s Getting Better All the Time”
He and his colleagues were making movies of the mind as it worked! They’d come up with objective proof that the mind was not some abstract equivalent of the soul free-floating in the inner ether, it was organic. An astonishingly complex network of neurotransmitters within the brain. Different sectors of the brain lit up...
The Monashee Institute wants YOU to teach, to learn, to get involved...
Monashee Institute Train the Trainers Workshop The Monashee Institute’s (MI) goal is to establish Rossland as a destination of learning. We are offering a professional development workshop to MI instructors, and those who may be interested in delivering courses in the future. Anyone keen to expand, tune-up, or share their ...
LETTER: (Un) Affordable housing in Rossland
On May 27th, 2010 Enbridge Northern Gateway submitted an application to the National Energy Board to build two parallel pipelines each with a length of 1,177 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia. On June 17, 2014 the Canadian Government accepted the project proposal. On April 20, 2011 I submitted an application to the...
Stopping Conflict in South Sudan Though Nonviolence
When Selkirk College Instructor Randy Janzen traveled to South Sudan in June, it wasn’t to report on the looming humanitarian crisis caused by famine and civil war in that country. On the contrary, the Peace Studies Program instructor wanted to learn more about an exciting project where local and international professionals...
Minister of Education's responds to meeting between BCTF and BCPSEA
Education Minister Peter Fassbender issued the following statement (Wednesday): "I invited the lead negotiators, Mr. Iker and Mr. Cameron, to meet with me today because we all want to resolve this strike. We want to see students in school next Tuesday. "To make that happen, both sides need to focus on the issues that can ...
Police lock down Nanaimo hospital
A lockdown at the Nanaimo Regional General Hospital today ended without incident, according to RCMP Sgt. Sheryl Armstrong. “On Aug. 26, at approximately 5:10 p.m., Nanaimo Regional General Hospital called the Nanaimo RCMP to report they had received a threat against the hospital and they believed there may be some credibility...
Potential detente between city and union
We’re seeing forward motion in negotiations between the City of Castlegar and its CUPE workers, after a stalemate last month led to limited strike action on the union’s part Aug. 15, with city staff refusing all over time work. Mayor Lawrence Chernoff says city staff continue to assess a settlement offer sent by the union at...
SD board of trustees issues letter to parents re: teachers strike
Dear parents and guardians: As you are likely aware, the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) have not been able to make significant progress over the summer months and so the possibility of schools opening as usual following Labour Day is uncertain. The Board hopes that the...
BCTF president sends teachers back to picket lines beginning this week
Get ready for another round of labour action as British Columbia Teachers' Federation president Jim Iker told teachers Sunday at the annual summer leadership conference rotating pickets going up beginning Vancouver, Langley and Kamloops. The BCTF president announced the picket schedule at the union's summer leadership conference...
Mosquitoes bring more than an itch to the RDCK
The Regional District of Central Kootenay will seek legal advice on how to compel the Nature Trust (TNT) of BC to treat their land in the Lardeau valley for mosquito abatement. The TNT has advised the RDCK verbally that it will not authorize the use of the larvaecide bacillus thuringiensis israelenis (bti) on their land, […]
