We find ourselves on different sides Of a line that nobody drew. Though it all may be one in the higher eye Down here where we live it is two. I to my side call the meek and the mild You to your side call the Word. By virtue of suffering I claim to have won You claim to have never been heard.                                                      ...

Editor's Note:  We’ve been hearing about “professional reliance” recently. In response to the provincial government’s invitation to the public to provide input on professional reliance, Rossland Mayor Kathy Moore sent a letter which is reproduced at the bottom. The deadline for submitting input was January 19th, so it’s too...

The New Year is a time to look ahead and plan for the future.  My wife and I have been talking about pensions lately.  She’s debating whether to start her Canada Pension Plan payments.  We were self-employed for much of our careers, so she doesn’t have a company pension to draw on, but we have tried to build up our RRSPs over...

Brazil has flooded large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 per cent of its electricity from hydropower. Brazil’s government had plans to expand development, opening half the Amazon basin to hydro. But a surprising announcement...

Just today, a reader sent me a link to a news item about a young person in Indiana, USA, killed while playing in the snow – sliding down a steep, snow-covered street, right into the path of a motorist. And now dead. The reader had seen a youth in Rossland sliding down one of our steep streets, and barely stopping before...

It makes me very sad to be having to write this again, and that we once more find ourselves coping with a horrific couple of months in our region – motor vehicle fatalities and injuries, fires, unexpected deaths, community icons lost. I think the knee-jerk reaction of most good people is to want to do something, to help in ...

My parents were born in Vancouver — Dad in 1909, Mom in 1911 — and married during the Great Depression. It was a difficult time that shaped their values and outlook, which they drummed into my sisters and me. “Save some for tomorrow,” they often scolded. “Share; don’t be greedy.” “Help others when they need it because one day...

Loans Officer (LO):  So you'd like to borrow $10.7 billion? BC Hydro (BCH):  Yes sir. It's for a hydro-electric dam. LO:   Well that's a lot of green for green energy. How exactly did you arrive at that cost? BCH:  Happy to report we went to the same team that came up with the $1.5 billion estimate for the Port Mann bridge....

By DeSmog Canada editors Being an environmental journalist at this point in history can be a bit, well, depressing. It often means bringing negative stories to light: stories about government failing to balance development with environmental protection, or about companies getting away with harmful practices, or about Indigenous...

A year ago, we revisited the 1992 “World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity.” Signed by a majority of Nobel laureates in sciences at the time and more than 1,700 leading scientists worldwide, the document warned, “Human beings and the natural world are on a collision course.” It called for a new ethic that encompasses our...