29 May 2009 (Nelson) — Greenpeace activists confronted management at the Wal-Mart on Lakeside Drive today as part of a campaign to stop Canada’s supermarkets from selling Redlist seafood, species that are the most threatened by over-harvesting. Activists canvassed the area outside the store with a large banner reading “Don’t Buy, Don’t Sell Redlist Fish,” […]

Imagine waking up early on a sunny winter’s morning, a fresh 15 centimetres of Kootenay powder on the ground. A perfect day to head up to Red and make some turns. Putting your boots on in the comfort and warmth of your house and strolling either down, up, or across the hill to Columbia Avenue you breeze right past your...

Just as a wheel works better with spokes and a spider web works better before curious fingers or dog noses poke their centres out so too does a trail system work better when it is connected to the hub of the town. The spider web without a centre is a good example of Rossland’s current trail system. Hundreds of kilometres of...

Given her age – she is 50 this year – it shouldn’t surprise us that Barbie, Mattel’s iconic doll, has breast cancer. One in eight Canadian women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, most between the ages of 50 and 69.  Wait, does Pink Ribbon™ Barbie® – in her frothy pink gown, long pink gloves, pink tulle...

Local chef and baker Michel Germain has been working slowly over the winter and early spring to bring a farmers’ market back to Rossland. Many people know Germain’s smiling, friendly face from his current one man market outside of Ronnie’s convenience store. He is trying to bring that energy and sidewalk friendliness to a...

The full depth of the regional recreation break up continues to reveal itself in many ways, most recently in the city’s 2009 draft budget and five year financial plan. At first glance, the top line entry of General and Utility taxes jumped out as having increased by 26.8% or $740,811 from $2,803,993 in 2008 to $3,554,804 in...

Like using the pool in Trail? Or any of the other recreational facilities and/or programs in the Silver City, for that matter? If so and you happen to be from Rossland, or anywhere other than Trail, from now on it’s going to cost you. Following the collapse of the regional recreation program, the city of Trail is moving to ...

In an age of bailouts, economic stimulus packages and billions upon billions of public dollars going to big failing corporations, The Telegraph is happy to report that a number of worthy local community groups, the kind that provide the sort of real community building that no bailout package could ever offer, are now at least...

A recent poll by the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer shows that almost half of Canadians - 43 per cent - believe that developing cancer is just a matter of chance. While about 80 per cent of the survey’s respondents linked a healthy diet and exercise with heart disease and diabetes, 72 per cent were not aware of the link...

Acting on a set of free lift tickets my girlfriend picked up as a Christmas staff party prize we packed up skis, snowboards, food and a dog into the Jeep and headed 350km south and east for a mini-vacation at Silver Mountain in Kellogg Idaho. The resort is only a short three hour drive away; we didn’t realize until arriving...