While the City of Nelson had decided to agree to the financial incentives offered by the BC Government’s Multi Material BC, the Regional District of Central Kootenay has not. Monday, the RDCK will decline the financial incentives offered by Multi Material BC (MMBC) to continue to provide recycling services in the region. “Declining the incentives […]

This is a notice to inform the public that construction crews will continue to work on both sides of Victoria Street from the bridge to Tamarac Avenue throughout the months of September and October. New sidewalks and accessible pedestrian crossings are to be installed accompanied by enhancements to the side streets and arena...

Our party is committed to earning back Canada’s respect on the world stage so that we can win back our seat at the Security Council table.  We want to project a bold and ambitious agenda for cooperation, and to build a more compassionate, peaceful and sustainable world. Since that work has already begun, I thought it might ...

Whales have shorter gestation periods. For the third time since the Local Government Elections Task Force tabled its report, the B.C. government has been stricken with a case of cold feet. In 2010, the task force made 31 recommendations to improve local democracy, including: setting campaign spending limits for candidates; ...

The United States President Barack Obama announced last Saturday he was seeking Congressional authorisation for military intervention in Syria. Wikinews interviewed; Prof. Scott Lucas, a Professor of American Studies from the UK's University of Birmingham Majid Rafizadeh, the President of the International American Council on the Middle East Prof. Eyal Zisser, a Syrian expert from […]

CUPE’s talks with the BC Public Schools Employers’ Association will continue on Sept.16, but a lack of progress on a reasonable wage increase for education workers in BC’s K-12 system threatens to shut down the public school system. “We don’t have endless patience. Our members have been without a wage adjustment for four...

Trail residents will be coming together Sept. 29 for a festival-like event to clean up the Columbia. BC Rivers Day is celebrated province-wide, and the City of Champions is sponsoring a Shoreline Cleanup to help local people get involved with being good stewards of their waterways. City Councillor Eleanor Gattafoni Robinson,...

What’s happening in Syria has nothing to do with the supposed use of chemical weapons, and everything to do with the imperial ambitions of the state of Israel, which is wielding its power through its infamous lobby, to use American might by proxy to carry out its objectives in the region. Among the leading neoconservatives […]

This week more than half a million B.C. children are back in the classroom to continue their education journeys. While our youngest students are experiencing their very first day of school and Grade 12s are looking forward to the next phase in their lives, the first week back is a special time when everyone shares in the...

A visit to the Lemon Creek spill site by B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak on Aug. 30 has not been met with universal approval from local residents. Polak spent several hours touring the area with RDCK chair John Kettle, who said meetings they held were in camera (not open to the public) because of ongoing litigation...