Letter: COVID-19 cancels Golden City Days
To The Editor: It is with great sadness that we must announce the Cancellation of Rossland Golden City Days and the Rossland Fall Fair. The Golden City Days Committee and the Rossland Fall Fair committee have made the difficult decision to cancel this year's event due to COVID-19. After discussing the current circumstances...
COLUMN: What lasts?
What Lasts? A holy Book-- and an unholy $ystem “... This I know, for the Bible tells me so.” -- child’s hymn, Jesus loves me “I am an anti-Christ / I am an anarchist I don’t know what I want / but I know how to get it I want to destroy passersby . . . . . . Your future dream is a shopping scheme.” -- Sex...
Budget 2021: More promises but everyday Canadians are left holding the bill for the pandemic while the ultra-rich enjoy a free ride
Many struggling Canadians hoped that today’s budget would offer meaningful supports and steps towards recovery. But more than that, they hoped that it would be the ultra-wealthy who have profited from the pandemic who would be paying for these supports, not the workers who have been hit so hard. According to local MP, Richard...
COLUMN: Invasive, or neo-native?
As human activity continues to heat the planet and destroy wildlife habitat, plants and animals are responding based on their genetic makeup and ability to adapt to altered environments. Some are losing ground, landing on ever-growing species-at-risk lists or winking out altogether. Others are making gains, eking out their ...
COLUMN: Old growth forest, and how much we (don't) have left
[Editor's note: the map accessed by the link at the beginning of the fourth paragraph from the bottom takes a long time to load, but provides sobering information about the state of BC's forests.] Anyone who’s read the book I wrote with Wayne Grady, Tree: A Life Story, or Peter Wohlleben’s The Hidden Life of Trees, knows...
Editorial: About that elderly Rossland couple and their COVID-19 fine
Readers will have seen a news item about a couple who crossed the border after getting medical services in the United States, and were accused of not following required procedures, and were issued a fine for $3,450 for their “non-compliance.” But there is much more to that story, and readers should know what really happened...
Letter: Rossland Speed Trap
To The Editor: I’m sure that the residents who live on Washington St. are litterly shaking their head over this article. Speeding on Washington Street is just as bad as it ever has been. The narrower roadway has made no difference. As Washington Street is a busy street, I can assure you that the police officer hasn’t even...
Column: Food and how we grow it: effects on our planet's health
By David Suzuki We all have to eat. But the ways in which we grow, harvest, process, transport, prepare and consume food are profoundly affecting everything on the planet, from climate to biodiversity to water. A comprehensive new study finds food systems are responsible for about one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions....
OP/ED: What Have We Learned in Our Year of the Plague?
Dear Dr. Steve, We have now completed one Pandemic Year. Have we learned anything as a society? Signed, Unvaccinated Dear UV, It’s been a Simpsons year, really. The Simpson family has been on the living room couch for over 30 years, but Bart and Lisa are still in grade school. Endless yet static — that is our pandemic era. ...
Column: Heading for the stars? (PART TWO)
The Third Promised Land: outer spaces and the star-colonizing project "We have to colonize Mars to ensure humanity's seed will survive if something happens on earth, like a nuclearthird world war or asteroid strike that could end human life." -- Elon Musk, owner, SpaceX “Elon Musk says he plans to send 1 million people...
