With the first year of our new Rossland City Council quickly coming to a close, Council is entering into a three-year strategic planning session. Our goal is to identify our list of priorities for 2016-2018 that will help us be a viable, well-governed and well-managed city, which is Council’s strategic goal for the next three...

Federal election candidates will have an opportunity to focus on issues of peace, security and climate change in a pair of all-candidates forums slated for September 16 and 17. The three important and often intertwined topics are of increasing importance to Canadians in the 21st Century. Co-hosted by Selkirk College’s Mir...

Locals will get a chance to weigh in on the 2016 provincial budget at a public meeting slated for Sept. 16 at the Fireside Inn, according to a press released issued last week. “The consultation period will formally open by Sept. 15 in conjunction with the release of the Budget 2016 Consultation Paper prepared by the Ministry...

A couple of weeks ago, I sent each candidate in this riding an invitation to answer questions — the same questions for each candidate — to allow the candidates and their parties to help us all understand both the differences and the similarities in their respective positions on issues and their policies, and what they […]

This is the first of three sets of questions.  If the answers arrive, the next set will appear next week.  Each candidate’s responses are published as a separate article.  Please read them all, and compare.  All elections are importatnt, and we all need to be as well-informed as possible — and to vote. Section I:  […]

There will be three sets of questions.  The second set  of Q&A will be published next week (if answers have arrived!)  Each candidate's answers are published as a separate article.  Please read and compare.  These answers have not been edited. Section I:  Introduction Q 1:      What is your educational background? Cannings:...

Daily there are thousands of migrants fleeing to Europe from Syria and Iraq.  This year there have been over 300,000 refugees arriving on European shores.  People are fleeing the savage rule of ISIS in parts of Iraq and Syria and the ongoing civil war in Syria.  We continue to read headlines that ISIS has fired […]

The Trail and District Chamber of Commerce HR Committee and Board of Directors is pleased to announce today that it has hired Audry Lochrie to fill the position of Executive Director. Lochrie is an experienced management executive specializing in business organizations and economic development. She has a strong entrepreneurial...

Re:  Meter replacement West Kootenays To whom it may concern: We were contacted this week by one of your operatives to discuss your intention to access our property to remove the current analogue meter and impose your new “smart” meter on our household.  We understand that in this corporate society, the rights of citizens are...

Gerrymandering:  How a Minority of the Votes can Win ALL the Power In a recent Telegraph poll about gerrymandering, some answers revealed that  not everyone knows what the term gerrymandering means.   If you have any doubts, read on.  You will have noticed that electoral district (riding) boundaries are adjusted periodically. ...