Not Learning from Empires: saying Yes to imperial temptation “Take up the White Man’s Burden…”                -- Rudyard Kipling “[G]overning India is the fulfillment of a mandate from God… the miracle of the world.”  – Lord Curzon, British Viceroy in India “Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.”    -- Percy B. Shelley,...

While travelling around my constituency of Kootenay West and the province I am often asked “what does a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) do?” I decided to share with constituents what my job has entailed since February and the start of the winter Legislative session. The days are long, sometimes difficult but it is ...

Parents of students in School District 20 (SD20) have reached such a level of frustration with ongoing and relentless cuts to education funding in the area that they've started a petition, according to Rebecca McDonnell, president of the District Parent Advisory Council. “This our sixth year of deficits approaching $1 million,...

A significant increase in drug-related overdoses and deaths has prompted provincial health officer Dr. Perry Kendall to declare a public health emergency. This is the first time the provincial health officer has served notice under the Public Health Act to exercise emergency powers. B.C. is the first province to take this...

Beheadings, suicide bombings and civil war. Horrific attacks in Brussels and San Bernardino. There is no shortage of examples of the violence that rocks the Islamic world. Shocking pictures and gruesome acts done in the name of religion seem to appear daily on our news feeds. The media hammers the point home—that Muslim...

In a letter to a friend, written from her prison cell in Berlin in 1917, Rosa Luxemburg suggested that “[d]isappointment in the masses is always a compromising sign for political leaders.” The fate of Canada’s political leaders in the past decade validates Luxemburg’s proposition. Paul Martin, Stéphane Dion, Michael Ignatieff,...

The City of Trail and CUPE Local 2087 are pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached following negotiations for the renewal of the Collective Agreement. The term of the renewed agreement, retroactive to March 1, 2015, is set for five years with wage increases of two per cent annually. The new agreement also […]

Rossland City Council:  Regular Meeting, April 11, 2016 Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andy Morel,  John Greene, Aaron Cosbey, and Andrew Zwicker.  Absent:  Marten Kruysse Public Hearing:   Anthony Bell, owner of Red Barn Lodge,  spoke to support Bylaw  #2607 to change the zoning for 2615A Railway ...

So, what is everyone's honest opinion of Castlegar's new garbage bins and method of collection? I rent, so I don't even have my bin as of yet and garbage collection is this coming Wednesday. My landlords have requested one. I don't have anywhere to keep my garbage. If I put my old garbage can on the front patio, it is available...

Rossland Council met again on Thursday, April 7, to review a second draft of a proposed budget to present to residents for their comments.  Council hopes that, on April 13, local taxpayers will get informed and give them useful information on which amenities the City should continue to fund, and which amenities citizens would...