Chicken issue to fly again at council meeting
A hugely contentious issue is once again going to take wing in an open city council meeting Sept. 6 – whether to allow urban poultry and bee-keeping within city limits. The issue has come up in years past and drawn near-record crowds of community members to council chambers, both in support of, and opposition to, such a change...
RDCK director pushes for rural fire insurance change
A director of the Regional District of the Central Kootenays says rural residents will soon face huge increases to their fire insurance premiums- and many won’t be able to get insurance protection at all. Andy Davidoff made the comment at Thursday’s monthly RDCK Board meeting in Nelson, telling his fellow directors he would like the […]
Opinion: Electoral Reform -- What System Should We Have?
On Thursday, September 1, from 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm at the Fireside Inn at 1810 Eighth Avenue in Castlegar, this riding's Member of Parliament will host a Town Hall meeting on Electoral Reform. As with any Town Hall meeting on any topic, the outcomes of such a meeting are more likely to be useful if people attending have done...
Garbage Cans Good Enough, Fire Services Query, A Threat of Legal Action, Trail Refuses to Pay -- and More!
Rossland City Council Meetings, August 15, 2016 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Aaron Cosbey, Marten Kruysse, Andy Morel and John Greene. Absent: Andrew Zwicker 1. At 6:00, a Public Hearing to consider bylaws to amend the Official Community Plan (OCP) to allow the parcel at 1807 Columbia Avenue...
COLUMN: On Inequality and Hierarchy
We deserve equal rights, though we are not equally-talented beings “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” I think very few readers cannot identify this ringing phrase from the American Declaration of Independence,...
Trail to get new private practice/ER doc
More than a year after its inception, the province’s Practice Ready Assessment BC (PRA-BC) program continues to benefit residents in Interior Health (IH) by linking rural and remote communities in need with family physicians. Interior Health is pleased to welcome five new family physicians in August and September, one in...
MP to host Town Hall on electoral reform in Castlegar
Richard Cannings, MP (South Okanagan – West Kootenay) is hosting two town hall discussions in September, seeking views and ideas from area residents on electoral reform as part of the government’s consultations on that issue. “I’ve heard from a lot of constituents already about electoral reform and it is clearly a very important...
City Abandons Boundary Extension Initiative
Following several years of discussions and negotiations, Trail City Council is abandoning the boundary extension initiative that would have seen the City of Trail’s southern boundary extended into Electoral Area ‘A’, including land from the city’s existing southern boundary through to the Columbia Gardens Industrial Park and...
Putting Your Garbage Out After August 15
CORRECTION: This notice originally mis-stated the time when people will be required to put garbage out for collection. The correct time is AFTER 5:00 am on the day of collection. The time has been corrected below. ________________________________________________________ Here's some advance notice: After Rossland City...
COLUMN: From the Hill -- Site C and Treaty 8
On February 18th of this year a group of First Nations activists came to Ottawa to speak to the government about the Site C dam project on the Peace River. They met with myself and other MPs in the BC NDP caucus to discuss their attempts to delay construction of the dam until the concerns of their people were heard in federal...
