How close is too close for development on Topping Creek?
How close is too close when it comes to development near our city’s drinking water sources? City Council discussed this issue, specifically dealing with Topping Creek (one of several creeks that provide Rossland’s drinking water supply), during a Committee of the Whole meeting this past Monday night. In the end, they opted ...
Determined skatepark association adding manpower and taking a new tack
In their continuing efforts to bring a decade-long dream of constructing a permanent skate park in Rossland to life, the Rossland Skatepark Association is gearing up for another campaign to nail down the location for the park. With their window of opportunity from the city getting smaller by the day, the group is revving up...
Corporations: 'citizen' psychopaths
National governments have been back in the news over the past two years because of the financial crisis and the havoc it wreaked on the global economy. Belying the ideology that nations were obsolete in the grand new order of transnational corporations, they are now front and centre trying to save the corporations that supposedly […]
Christina Lake man charged with feeding bears
A resident of Christina Lake has been charged with one count of feeding dangerous wildlife under the Wildlife Act [Sec. 33.1(1)]. Allan Wayne Piche is scheduled to appear in Grand Forks provincial court on Dec. 14, 2010. A police investigation of an alleged marijuana grow operation in mid-August 2010 uncovered a number of severely […]
Outposts
Whatever the Western media calls them, the illegal Jewish settlements on the West Bank are very far from being outposts. They are connected to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by fast, Jews-only motorways. Their villas have swimming pools and lawns (a settler is allocated eight times more water than a Palestinian). Even the most recent and […]
Mexico’s regional newspapers limit reporting of Cartels’ role in drug violence
By Stephen Engelberg in ProPublica Mexico’s regional newspapers are failing to report many of the murders, attacks on police and other violence linked to the nation’s war against drug cartels, a new analysis shows. The Fundación MEPI, an independent investigative journalism center, studied the crime coverage of 11 regional newspapers and found that the drug-trafficking cartels receive little […]
Logging stopped as Sinixt win injunction in court
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyA hotspot of environmental and political activity on Perry Ridge will now be cooled until the new year. The Sinixt Nation protest camp and blockade on Perry Ridge Forest Service Road will be dismantled after the aboriginal group was successful Monday afternoon in obtaining an injunction...
Jet-setting hockey players aim to slash emissions
By Jonathan Spicer, Reuters With 30 teams crisscrossing North America throughout the 82-game season, the National Hockey League takes its toll on the environment. That's 750 players, along with their trainers, coaches and equipment, packed into fuel-burning aircraft from October until the Stanley Cup is finally awarded in...
Neighbourhoods of Learning needs your help
The Neighbourhoods of Learning team, led by new coordinator Ami Haworth, is continuing to push forward on their ultimate goal of preserving quality K-12 education in Rossland. The momentum building behind the project that has received widespread support around the city and are pursuing a new funding avenue to help continue...
Hatchery-raised salmon threatening wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest
By David A Gabel, Environmental News Network This year was one of the biggest salmon runs of all time for BC’s Pacific Northwest with over 34 million salmon in the province’s river system alone. The problem with this resurgence is that much of the new numbers come from hatchery-raised salmon, which have created increased competition […]
