Library and Museum grants upped; TRP gets some; Taxes; Deanne Steven leaving Tourism Rossland
Rossland City Council, November 12, 2016: Public Hearing and Regular Council Meeting. Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, John Greene, Andy Morel, and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Marten Kruysse PUBLIC HEARING: A slight clash of views over housing The Public Hearing was scheduled to ...
The Rec Site: Free Public Recreation, or For-Profit Business?
With seven billion and counting on this little planet, space in some places is at a premium. We’re so lucky here in BC’s southern interior — we aren’t overly crowded. And yet, we still compete for space. Space for recreation in the back-country in some areas is highly contentious, with horse-back riders, hikers, skiers, snowshoers, […]
Who Needs Food? Still Time to Give Input on Food Charter
Raise your hand, everyone who eats food. OK, now, raise your hand, everyone who knows where your food comes from. How far has it travelled? Has the price gone up in this past year? Was your food sprayed with pesticides and herbicides? Can it continue to be produced as plentifully and shipped to us if drought conditions...
A SURPRISINGLY SIMPLE SOLUTION TO CANADA'S STALLED ENERGY DEBATE
By Emma Gilchrist Originally published by Desmog Canada . If you feel exhausted by Canada’s fevered debates about oil pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals, renewable energy projects and mines, there just might be relief in sight. Right now, the federal government is reviewing its environmental assessment...
This time, Local Governments talk to Feds on future of Columbia River Treaty
Local government representatives Mayor Deb Kozak and Mayor Karen Hamling met with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, federal officials and regional MPs in late November to emphasize the importance of working with local governments in the Columbia Basin before reaching decisions...
Editorial: Seven Summits Centre For Learning is now partnered with SD 71; how is that working?
Thanks to the Seven Summits Centre for Learning (Seven Summits), Rossland still has Kindergarten to Grade 12 (K -12) education within its city limits. When School District 20 decided to close Maclean Elementary School, sell that building and move its former students into the former Rossland Secondary School building, and ...
A Ginger-bread Community, a Noisy Neighbour, Planning for the Mid-Town Lands, Dumping Telus
Rossland City Council, Regular Meeting on November 28, 2016 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, John Greene, and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Marten Kruysse. Public Input Period: Special guests from Rossland Summit School (RSS), two children in the elementary grades, explained...
EDITORIAL: Fear-Mongering Invades Rossland
A reader has notified me of a disturbing incident. It was just paper -- three pages of it -- tacked to a fence in downtown Rossland, but the reader reported that it was an attempt to spread hate in our Mountain Kingdom. The targets were the usual ones that bigots love to hate: "liberal," feminist, Jewish, LGBTQ; and the...
OPINION: The Trouble With CETA and Faith-based 'Reality'
"Sweep away the community of honest brokers in America [and] we'll be left with a culture and public dialogue based on assertion rather than authenticity, on claim rather than fact." -- U.S. journalist Ron Suskind, 2004 While you were going about your daily routines this week, the Trudeau Sunny Ways government was rushing...
COLUMN: On the Quality of Public Discourse, and the Difference Between Debate and Dialogue
The U.S. election was a chilling illustration of the atrocious state of public discourse. It doesn’t bode well for a country once admired for leadership in education and science. As public relations expert and former David Suzuki Foundation board chair James Hoggan writes in I’m Right and You’re an Idiot, “polluted public ...
