At 4:3o on Monday, April 20, at Rossland City Hall, citizens have a final opportunity to learn more about and provide input on the City’s draft 2026 – 2030 Financial Plan.   The Plan is available on the City’s website for all who want to learn more about where all those tax dollars go, and why.  […]

 “We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare. You can’t do it… We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”   —  President D. J. Trump, USA “It takes money to kill bad guys.”    — Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back […]

An all- new, improved zoning bylaw (if you have thoughts on any of  it, now is the time to discuss them and express them to the City);  more work on the Financial Plan;  the cost of recreation facilities and services;  cupcakes for Canada Day;  the City is seeking a new Manager of Recreation & Events […]

Beginning Wednesday, April 1, 2026, the health professions and occupations act comes into effect, which will improve patient safety by increasing transparency and ensuring good and consistent governance for regulators. For health-care professionals, it means more support and structure from regulators, so they can focus on patient care. This regulation will not cause any disruption […]

By Jaigris Hodson, Brianna I. Wiens, Nick Ruest, and Shana MacDonald Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, head of Canada’s official opposition, recently became the first Canadian political leader to appear on the controversial Joe Rogan Experience podcast. Poilievre had been asked to sit for an interview with Rogan amid the federal election campaign in April 2025, […]

In Canada, progress on social and ecological justice often faces roadblocks. When women got the right to vote here in 1918, organizations sprang up to argue voting was incompatible with women’s “traditional roles.” When universal health care was introduced in the 1960s, doctors in Saskatchewan went on strike, accusing the government of exercising too much […]

What if a healthcare provider could prescribe more than medicine? Across British Columbia, they can, and they do. Today, social prescriptions are helping people access things like food security programs, exercise classes, housing support, and even time in nature. These “non‐medical prescriptions” are improving health in ways a pill never could. It’s called social prescribing, […]

“Our movement began as an alliance of socialist farmers and workers. It’s a part of our DNA as the NDP and we are reconnecting with those roots. That’s why I’m so honoured to have the support of these remarkable agriculture leaders against corporate control of our food system. This campaign is about rebuilding our party […]

Rossland is running out of low‑cost options when it comes to infrastructure. That reality framed discussion at the March 9, 2026 Committee of the Whole meeting, where City Council examined the City’s five‑year capital plan and the growing challenge of maintaining essential systems in an era of rising construction costs and aging assets. Staff emphasized […]

By Henry Giroux Political theorist Hannah Arendt warned that authoritarian politics rarely begin with spectacles of repression. More often, authoritarianism advances through routine administrative decisions that appear technical or neutral but gradually reshape public life — a kind of bureaucratic normalization of injustice she later described as the banality of evil. Over time, these measures […]