The BC Liberals got out the axe last week, cutting in half the amount of dollars available to child care facilities through the minor capital grants program. The grants are designed to help child care facilities fund small scale repairs and capital improvements. “This week’s cut comes to the small grants that child care centres...

With sustainability, the economy and the environment dominating the headlines and priorities of our governments, heritage, its preservation and promotion are often forgotten or left behind. Former Rossland mayor and long time councillor Jackie Drysdale came before a committee of the whole (COW) meeting at city hall this Tuesday...

The Slocan valley opened its new skate park this summer to rave reviews; skaters in Trail have been working hard lobbying and petitioning to get a park located and built somewhere in the smelter city. Just this week in Nelson a 19 year old boy was skating through the intersection of Ward Street and Vernon Street and struck ...

Continuing on a mineral extraction project started in 2003, WHY (Western High Yield) Resources have been conducting test drilling on a section of their 6,000 plus hectare claim on Record Ridge for the past two years. The project involves the extraction and processing of a large magnesium deposit on the site. Planned to involve...

 CASTLEGAR— Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy says the community members that attended the Glacier-Howser meeting in Nelson were energized and inspired to continue the fight against the controversial private power project. “This is just the beginning,” said Conroy. “The people of this region are ready to fight hard against Gordon Campbell’s plan to privatize our waterways […]

An anticipated large crowd at this week’s regular city council meeting in support of the scheduled OCP and zoning amendment for the proposed dance studio in the Jehovah’s Witness hall never materialized. Those who showed up to support the project learned on arrival that the zoning and OCP amendment application had been dropped...

Upon enquiring about the blue tarp that has graced the front of Golden City Manor for the past two years, it turned out that tarp was covering up more than just an unfinished piece of the building and that there was a significant story behind it, or more correctly a story on just who would be able to fix the problem.The story...

The Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) is pleased to announce three community pilot projects that will receive financial support as part of the State of the Basin Initiative, a model for monitoring and reporting on social, environmental, economic and cultural indicators and trends in the Columbia Basin region. Earlier this year, CBT invited municipalities, regional districts, First […]

Ahh... Super Natural British Columbia, the “Best place on earth,” as we’ve been branded. ’Come play in our mountains, explore our beautiful forests, oceans, lakes and endless beautiful back country’ we say to the world. We publicize our province with sweeping heli-cam shots of wild open mountain spaces; we show folks having...

As a society, we have been living under a false paradigm for at least the last 250 years.  That is, that people are largely motivated by self-interest.  It's an utter absurdity, but one that has been reinforced by various types of clinical prejudice, beginning with Freud, but also, most importantly, Adam Smith.Smith is the ...