By a unanimous vote, the Kootenay Lake District Parents’ Advisory Council will be sending a letter to the province and BC Teachers’ Federation over the teacher job action and requesting both sides get back to genuine negotiations immediately. The Kootenay Lake DPAC held its annual general meeting on Thursday, Oct. 27 and teacher job action […]

Canada’s key interest rate will end 2011 unchanged.   The Bank of Canada (BoC) left its policy rate at 1.00 percent this week, as anticipated.   In a statement, the Bank said European economic performance will be worse than expected, Canadian and United States growth are “slightly” better than expected, and inflation will “ease.” It […]

 A 17-year old Christina Lake boy has returned home safely after getting lost looking for the family cat, Dec. 4. The Christina Lake Fire Department was called to a Fife Road residence by the boy’s parents after he didn’t return from searching a forested area close to the home looking for the family cat. He’d […]

Any way you slice it, Rossland’s downtown re-do will be costly. The latest figures from ISL put the project’s first phase at $4.45 million, less approximately $1.4 million from the transportation ministry. The second phase, covering Washington beyond 1st Avenue to Plewman, comes in at $3.8million. Add engineering costs and ...

ISL’s proposal for the downtown rebuild involves some rejigging of the city’s downtown parking stalls--a move that has generated some concerns and controversy. Columbia Ave. currently has 108 parking stalls from the west side of St Paul to the east side of Spokane. Transportation Association of Canada (TAC) guidelines, however,...

British Columbia, like nowhere else in Canada, is blessed with a seemingly infinite playlist of backcountry skiing and snowboarding lines, among the best on the planet. Every year their siren song lures powder hounds into high altitude wilds, occasionally at the peril of the under-prepared. On December 11th, Rosslander, Trevor Campbell will unveil the result […]

Clad in his familiar unseasonable shorts, but sporting a nice new hat, former city building inspector Jason Ward joined council and new colleague Ed Kolla of ISL Engineering Monday for a detailed presentation of the proposed downtown “revitalization” project. The evening’s key message: it’s time for council to get moving. Fittingly, this sentiment was attributed […]

The Kootenay forestry community gathered on Thursday, Dec. 1 at Selkirk College Castlegar campus to discuss how the forest industry and communities can work together more effectively, as part of the province-wide Healthy Forests – Healthy Communities initiative.About 60 people attended the dialogue, which was hosted by Selkirk...

The Defenders of the Land (DotL), a network of Indigenous Communities, today condemned reports that in 2007, the Harper government established a national and international police surveillance network to spy on Indigenous Peoples and their supporters for defending Indigenous Peoples' self-determination and land rights. The...

Members of the Canadian Youth Delegation were ejected from COP17 today as Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent delivered his opening address at the United Nations climate negotiations in Durban, South Africa. Just as Kent began his speech, six youth stood and turned away from the minister revealing the message “Turn your back on Canada” prominently […]