Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace Winter Lecture Series isexcited to announce the upcoming lecture of Nobel Laureate and founderof the Canadian chapter of Medicin Sans Frontieres (Doctors WithoutBorders), Dr. James Orbinski. Dr. Orbinski is a member of the Order of Ontario and an Officer of theOrder of Canada-designations that recognize his achievements and ongoingcommitment […]

  It started with three people who wanted to make a difference and it has turned into a collective fundraising effort focused on long-term rebuilding efforts in Haiti. “Grounds for Haiti is a grass-roots effort that people have just jumped on board to support,” says volunteer Kari Colbachini;“When this was first being brainstormed, it became something […]

Trophy hunters are turning British Columbia’s protected areas into graveyards for grizzlies, despite the province’s reputation as one of the last continental safe havens for the bears, according to new research by the David Suzuki Foundation.  The Foundation has identified more than 60 provincial parks where grizzly bears – which no longer exist or are […]

Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is pleased to announce that 19 local governments will be participating in the Columbia Basin Water Smart Initiative (Water Smart) to address water conservation in the region. CBT is partnering with 17 municipalities and two regional districts to embark on this ambitious initiative to reduce community water use across the Basin […]

MLAs Katrine Conroy and Michelle Mungall have written a letter to the Minister of Health, Kevin Falcon, describing to him the concerns that area surgeons, anesthetists and operating room nurses have with the decision by the IHA to cut surgeries at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital. In their letter dated February 15, 2010, Conroy and Mungall […]

Between 11:00 A.M. and 3:00 P.M. today a rotating group of at times 30 or more strong protested what they believed to be the steady and continuous destruction of our area’s healthcare system. This is the fourth year in a row that Jim Albo has stood outside of the hospital on February 20th. “The first […]

The following is a press release from the Valhalla Wilderness Society The BC government, under the cover of the current Olympic fun and games, has quietly presented an agenda for shooting wolves from helicopters. For several years now, BC has been killing wolves by trapping them throughout the Interior Wetbelt, to aid mountain caribou recovery.“The […]

As of 8:00 A.M. Tuesday morning, staff at the Nelson District Credit Union went on strike. Citing a large gap between labour and management, last minute efforts that went late into the night and early Tuesday morning by both sides proved unfruitful and the union walked out several hours later. The employees, members of the ...

How important is a sparkling green lawn, and is it worth using chemicals to get that result? That question among others will come before Rossland council on Monday February 8th when a proposed bylaw to ban the use of cosmetic pesticides will be on the table. Cosmetic pesticides are typically classified as chemical pesticides...

'To skate or not to skate' in Rossland may not be the most pertinent question in the campaign to get a skate park built in town. Instead, 'where to skate' and 'where to locate a skate park' seems to be drawing a lot more attention recently.During its December 14th meeting, council approved the RSA's (Rossland Skate park...