Learn About Running for Local Government: Free Workshop
Join a free session to learn about running for local government office. With local government elections this October 15, people are starting to give serious consideration to who could be representing communities for the next four-year term. Everyone wants to elect people who care. Democracy starts in our own communities. Local...
COLUMN: We need to look up
Near the end of the film Don’t Look Up, Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, astronomer Randall Mindy, turns to the people around him and says, “We really did have everything, didn’t we?” Although the “everything” has never been equally distributed, humans really have had all that we need to survive and thrive. If only more people would […]
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meetings, July 11, 2022
There is no such thing as a bear-proof garbage bin; extreme rainfall and wet basements; got your Eye On Water yet? Citizens can easily access interesting City info in City reports, and, here’s the latest from RDKB meetings. Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Janice Nightingale, ...
2021 Draft Annual Report is Now Available For Public Inspection
In accordance with Sections 98 and 99 of the Community Charter, the City’s annual report has been prepared and is available for public inspection. Rossland City Council will be presented the City of Rossland 2021 Annual Report for approval at the Regular Council Meeting on: Monday, July 11, 2022 at 6 p.m. at the Rossland...
Horgan to step down next election
Premier John Horgan has issued the following statement: “Over the last couple of days, our cabinet has met to seek solutions to the challenges people face in British Columbia. “These include the high cost of living and the stresses on primary care. Working to make life better for people is why we are here and that...
Housing, homelessness and poverty emerge as top issues for voters heading into B.C. civic elections this fall
As voters prepare to go to the polls for local elections this fall and candidates across the province announce their intention to seek office, a new survey done by Research Co. for BC Non-Profit Housing Association, the Co-operative Housing Federation of BC and the Aboriginal Housing Management Association finds housing,...
COLUMN: People suffer while climate disrupters profit
The lineage of our human species has survived for several million years thanks to a wondrous, interconnected evolution of factors resulting in air to breathe, water to drink and plants, fungi, animals and minerals for food, shelter, tools and clothing. For most of that time, our ancestors lived in relative harmony with the ...
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meetings, June 20, 2022
Committee of the Whole talks recreation; Praise for financial statements; Crisis for the Curling Club; Dumpsters for the arena parking lot, coming soon; our Bylaw Enforcement Officer will be official; various variances . . . and more Present: Acting Mayor Andy Morel and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Terry Miller, Stewart Spooner,...
Newsletter from Kootenay West MLA Katrine Conroy
Dear Neighbours, Friends and Community Members, June is National Indigenous History Month, a time to learn and show support for the ongoing work of reconciliation. This month, B.C. and the Tahltan Central Government entered the first ever consent-based decision-making agreement under the Declaration Act. This agreement honours...
COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council meeting, June 6, 2022
Youth encouraging more diversity in local politics; ‘natural’ gas and decarbonization; trash and wildlife; and – do you have your EyeOnWater yet? AND the latest RDKB report. Present: Acting Mayor Andy Morel, and Councillors Chris Bowman, Dirk Lewis, Janice Nightingale, Terry Miller, and Stewart...