LETTER: Thanks to Rosslanders for support
Dear editor, When people give of their time, their energy and their heart, they deserve special recognition and a personal thank you. The residents of Rossland and the Canadian Cancer Society volunteers who sold daffodils, daffodil pins and went door to door exemplify those people. The Rossland Unit of the Canadian Cancer ...
Criminology Department Chair at Nanaimo's VIU has a few words of advice for Nelson City Council
Editor, The Nelson Daily On May 7, a debate in the chambers of Nelson City Council on a motion about legalizing cannabis was profoundly similar to others currently taking place across Canada and the world (Council Debates Legalization of Pot, June 12, 2012). As an active participant in this debate, I have some suggestions which […]
LETTER: In Flounders' flooded fields...
Dear editor, The Western Front must have looked like this. Earth and rocks, blasted, torn and scattered; pools of murky water filling every rain-soaked depression; the accumulated detritus of hard fought conflict, here piled high in tangled heaps of twisted metal, there semi-submerged in the clinging mud like dead, wasted ...
LETTER: Bear attractants shouldn't be near where kids play
Dear editor, These pictures (attached) were taken this evening at RSS as children were leaving from soccer. This parking area is the main pathway through a large block of upper Rossland for children going to and from elementary schools and it is also a very "blocked" area where a bear could quite easily feel trapped. Having...
COMMENT: Free speech, slander, and small town drama
I will agree completely with anyone who claims the issues we untangle below are petty, but we at the Telegraph feel obliged to defend ourselves against a number of unsubstantiated attacks leveled against our news coverage and editorials—specifically mine—by certain members of council who dislike what we’ve written.Two weeks...
LETTER: Response to "attempt to create pesticide 'hysteria'"
[In response to a letter by Henry Van Der Molen, published in the Rossland Telegraph on 11 June 2011] Dear editor, We note that Mr. Van Der Molen is a contract sprayer with Supergreen Lawn and Tree Care, hardly an impartial by-stander, which explains his support for B.C.'s status quo. I am retired middle-level public servant...
LETTER: Attempt to create pesticide 'hysteria'?
To the editor, I have to say, the article by Ms. Daghofer and Ms. Sears (PhD) (I could not find her name in the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario's researchers list) was an interesting read. Apparently the Special Committee on Cosmetic Pesticides is placing a blind faith in Health Canada's Pest management Regulatory...
LETTER: Class of '52 thanks RSS PAC
Dear Rossland Secondary School and Parent Advisory Committee: We would like to thank you for inviting us to your sixtieth anniversary of the High School. It was very special for our classes of 1951 and 1952. We were very impressed with the tour of the school led by two knowledgable students, Clara and Alexandria. They easily...
LETTER: Quebec protests about much more than tuition
Greetings to you, my friends in the Rest of Canada (ROC) I am writing you because i am really concerned that English Canada is not getting good information on what is happening right now in Québec. Particularly lamentable is the CBC and the Globe and Mail. And, apparently, Maclean’s. You...
LETTER: Oberfeld way out of line, says local MP
Dear Editor, In reading the May 23 OPED “Pushing the West OUT of Canada” I was shocked at the hateful level of vitriol and misrepresentation being expressed by the author. To suggest that NDP leader Tom Mulcair, or any other New Democrat MP would consider “screwing the West” to win seats in Eastern Canada is a slanderous...