A SURPRISINGLY SIMPLE SOLUTION TO CANADA'S STALLED ENERGY DEBATE
By Emma Gilchrist Originally published by Desmog Canada . If you feel exhausted by Canada’s fevered debates about oil pipelines, liquefied natural gas terminals, renewable energy projects and mines, there just might be relief in sight. Right now, the federal government is reviewing its environmental assessment...
This time, Local Governments talk to Feds on future of Columbia River Treaty
Local government representatives Mayor Deb Kozak and Mayor Karen Hamling met with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, federal officials and regional MPs in late November to emphasize the importance of working with local governments in the Columbia Basin before reaching decisions...
COUNCIL MATTERS: Special Meeting -- Community Grants and an IT Decision
Special Council Meeting, December 5, 2016 Council met to discuss and make funding decisions for Community Grants, and to make a decision on the City's Information Technology (IT) needs. Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Aaron Cosbey, John Greene, Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, and Lloyd McLellan; Absent-- Marten...
Canada's Long History of Waffling on Electoral Reform
Our government established a special committee to consider the subject of proportional representation, and the committee noted that “it must be apparent to all that the present system of election in single-member constituencies meets fully the purpose intended only when not more than two candidates are nominated.” The committee...
A Ginger-bread Community, a Noisy Neighbour, Planning for the Mid-Town Lands, Dumping Telus
Rossland City Council, Regular Meeting on November 28, 2016 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Andrew Zwicker, Andy Morel, John Greene, and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Marten Kruysse. Public Input Period: Special guests from Rossland Summit School (RSS), two children in the elementary grades, explained...
TAXES, HOME PRICES -- HOW DOES ROSSLAND STACK UP, REALLY?
Janice Nightingale got curious after Rossland's budget presentation last spring. "Things looked grim!" she says, and she could see that Council was struggling to make the best decisions. The grimness had a lot to do with Rossland's ancient infrastructure and the urgent need to replace much of it at great expense, not to ...
EDITORIAL: Fear-Mongering Invades Rossland
A reader has notified me of a disturbing incident. It was just paper -- three pages of it -- tacked to a fence in downtown Rossland, but the reader reported that it was an attempt to spread hate in our Mountain Kingdom. The targets were the usual ones that bigots love to hate: "liberal," feminist, Jewish, LGBTQ; and the...
OUT OF LEFT FIELD: Blueberry School AGM a slap in face to taxpayers everywhere
I would like to preface this by saying I have long been a vehement – almost rabid – supporter of the Blueberry Creek Community School Hub (BCCS). I lobbied hard, both personally and professionally, for SD 20 to sell the BCCS property to its non-profit society to keep the school in operation. It is, thus, truly with a heavy ...
City's trash talk paying off for tax payers
The City of Castlegar's newly-implemented garbage/recycling management program has been anything but wasteful, according to data recently released by contractor Waste Management. City director of Transportation and Civic Works, Chris Barlow, said that Waste Management tracks how much waste it collects and to which facility ...
Last week brings BC highest number of 911 overdose calls ever recorded
B.C. paramedics and dispatchers will be getting much-needed support from the provincial government in the face of the province's opioid overdose crisis, with a $5-million injection of funding for BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS), Health Minister Terry Lake announced Friday. Over the last week, B.C. had the highest number...
