Golden City Cynic: What I’ll miss about Rossland
The cat is officially out of its not-so-tightly-closed bag: I’m moving. At the end of September, I’ll be packing up my actual cat, Juno, and all my stuff, and moving to the coast. Maple Ridge, to be specific. It was a difficult, devastating decision, and I have another column planned talking about my reasons for the move, but...
Rumours of pipeline's demise grow as speculation surrounds Enbridge
It’s impossible to divine anything concrete from the flurry of interesting chatter surrounding Enbridge’s embattled 1,100 km Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal. Alternate routes, Asian energy experts laughing at our stupidity, Enbridge as a straw man to help push through another pipeline to the US…Much of it coming via rumours, hypotheses, and veiled political innuendo. But […]
UK uprisings now, France last year, Vancouver in June not just thugs
It’s the easiest way to dismiss what we see going on: a mindless group of hooligans, drunks and thieves wreaking havoc for havoc’s sake — and for profit.And that’s what the “official” investigations always conclude afterwards. But they’re wrong. There are several common threads that link the disturbances throughout the UK right now, France last year, […]
ATAMANENKO: GMO crops today
There has been a fair amount of debate of late in regard to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). We often see misconceptions and ‘myths’ being perpetrated by proponents of this technology which upon closer scrutiny cannot withstand the light of day. One myth is that GMOs will eliminate poverty and hunger in the world. Another is […]
EDITORIAL: Arts and culture, want to come outside and play?
Walking around downtown Rossland with a friend from California this past weekend, I felt somewhat self conscious that at 6:30 PM on a sunny Saturday afternoon, the downtown core was vacant of all but a Pomeranian attempting to bite at the heels of a passing semi and an old black dog making the rounds from bin to bin (Note to...
Local dad says LG "joke" no laughing matter
To the editor: Let me begin by saying this letter is addressing the enablers… the ones who turn a blind eye to something theyd rather not be aware of. When a situation is worthy of being top national news, it should be just that … not what has happened in our town regarding the abuse […]
Out There: Looping Through the Selkirks
As a kick-off to my long weekend staycation (which for me means staying at home being a home-body), my dad and I decided to go on a road trip from Rossland, to Creston, and then over to Nelson. The Salmo-Creston-Nelson part of this route now has an actual name, as evidenced by the signs I […]
Why the BC Liberal government doesn't value your life
There are many instances I've come across in the past number of years which suggest to me the Campbell/Clark Government places no real value on the lives of its citizens - this despite Premier Clark's "families first" motto. That's a bold claim, I know - which is why I'm going to state my case here, drawing on several specific...
A NOBLE PURSUIT: The deplorable HST decision
There’s still time to submit your harmonized sales tax (HST) referendum vote – but as far as how one should vote, now that’s a more complicated path to tread (ballots my be in the mail or returned in to a Service BC office by Friday, August 5). It is my opinion that there are only […]
NDP needs to launch a culture war
Back in April, 2010, EKOS pollster Frank Graves got into a lot of trouble in the neo-con blogosphere for advising the Liberal Party to “invoke a culture war” on the Harper Conservatives. “I told them that they should invoke a culture war. Cosmopolitanism versus parochialism, secularism versus moralism, Obama versus Palin, tolerance versus racism and […]
