Political parties start the campaign days before election writ is dropped
Let the campaign begin. With the election writ set to be dropped Tuesday, campaigns kicked off over the weekend with both major parties, NDP and Liberals, doing their best to score some early points. The election is Tuesday, May 14. Liberal Leader Christy Clark renewed her call to debate NDP leader Adrian Dix one-on-one while […]
Party your way to equitable politics?
The under 45 generation are getting tired of working and studying more, to have less. With rising home prices, cost of living, and incomparable wages, young people and their families are being squeezed of time, and income, and are being forced into crushing debt. On April 15 - 17, from 7 – 10 p.m. at Birchbank Golf Club...
No acclamation win for Conroy - Liberals declare West Kootenay candidate
Today’s BC Liberals have announced that Jim Postnikoff will be their candidate in Kootenay West for the upcoming provincial election. Postnikoff is a small business owner and worked as a millwright in the mining and forestry industries for 25 years. “Today’s BC Liberals have balanced B.C.’s budget and they have a plan to grow our […]
COMMENT: How is the City going to pay for Columbia Avenue?
It appears the Columbia Avenue infrastructure project is going to cost a lot more than taxpayers were led to believe. How the project will be paid for is another example of pathetic financial mismanagement on the part of the City. In late December 2010, an Alternative Approval Process (AAP) was initiated to get authority ...
Council tackles issues of freedom and democracy
Council discussed three major democratic issues on Monday evening, from local issues of ongoing fallout from the arena scandal and questions of transparency in email communications, to an official council stand on the controversial Jumbo Resort development near Invermere, BC. Auditor General soon to pick her cases Coun....
COUNCIL MISCELLANY: Rossland’s budget still not on the radar, Dog doo piled wide and deep, and Miners’ Hall facelift gets a nod
Did someone say budget? May 15 deadline fast approaches There’s still no sign of a budget discussion at council as the May 15 filing deadline for municipal financial plans approaches. Coun. Kathy Moore said, "I'm agitated that it's now April and we haven't started any serious discussion on our budget." She asked if there...
COMMENT: Time for outrage!
The day I picked up a copy of Stéphane Hessel’s Time for Outrage! at my local bookstore was the day the Royal Bank of Canada’s hiring practices made headlines. There was confusion about what RBC was being accused of. Was it outsourcing? Was it off-shoring? Was it an abuse of the temporary foreign workers’ program? Whatever ...
Linden to be keynote speaker in Castlegar
The City of Trail Parks and Recreation, Castlegar & District Recreation Centre and the Nelson & District Community Complex, with the major sponsorship of Teck, are pleased to announce Trevor Linden as the keynote speaker at the upcoming 2013 Recreation Facilities Association of BC (RFABC) Conference. The event takes place May 14-16, 2013 at the […]
COMMENT: Change cannot come soon enough
As we move towards the end of another session of Parliament I always like to reflect on the events of the past year. Locally my office has continued to assist constituents who run into difficulties with the federal government bureaucracy. We have been able to help people in obtaining justice from Revenue Canada and Citizenship...
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher dies aged 87
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. Baroness Thatcher was the first woman Prime Minister and served between 1979 and 1990. In 2002, she suffered a number of strokes and was advised by doctors not to engage in public speaking. Her premiership was notable for […]
