The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police has focussed the world on the blight of racism.  In the days and weeks since that event, millions have marched through the streets and there has been much said and written about racism, whether it be conversations around systemic racism or articles about the use of...

  Indigenes and Incomers What freedom we possess! To live as an individual, with choice to create one’s own singular culture! Where else in the world can people do this? Canada, a land colonized by massive immigration from Europe, is lucky indeed to be one of the few. People like me are unlikely to live anywhere but within ...

New chiller for the arena;  Anti-racism policy; Cannabis conundrum; garbage bag sizes; traffic calming for Thompson Ave.; a downtown bazaar for the summer; highway mural? And cam camp  . . . Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Andy Morel, Dirk Lewis, Janice Nightingale, Chris Bowman, and Stewart Spooner;...

After months of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many people just want to get back to “normal.” We will overcome this crisis. But “normal” means continued climate disruption and species extinction, growing inequalities, increasing pollution and health risks and the possibility of further new disease outbreaks. We...

Rossland City Council Meeting, June 1, 2020 Trash talk, new fees and charges bylaw, greening the fleet By web conference Present:   Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Stewart Spooner, Andy Morel, Chris Bowman, and Janice Nightingale. Staff present who spoke during the meeting:  Manager of Special Projects  Darrin...

  “And the human race just kept rollin’ on. Rolling through the fighting, rolling through the religious wars, rolling through the temple walls, and the churches’ exposed sores.”     (Neil Young, Looking for a Leader, Greendale lp) Free-association historical ramble Some curiosities of the past surface through this column,...

There has been a lot of misinformation and hyperbole lately about how the House of Commons will be conducting business over the next few weeks.   Regular sittings of Parliament were suspended in mid-March because of the COVID-19 crisis.  Since then, the House of Commons has been working, and in many ways working harder and ...

Readers will already have read some articles about what our society needs to do to build a better world post-COVID-19.  Analyzing our world as it is now rapidly reveals an urgent need for major change on many fronts. Many of us seem to share a hope that the pandemic will provoke serious, multi-faceted assessment of our current...

The tourism industry is a major economic engine and job creator for people in British Columbia. Despite the deep and sudden impacts of COVID-19 on the sector, B.C.’s tourism leaders were quick to put the greater good of our communities above anything else. To assist in the pandemic response, many hotels throughout the province swiftly […]

Remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal ? -- when a right-wing company “harvested” information on millions (maybe 50 million, maybe up to 87 million) of its users from Facebook, without their knowledge or permission, and sold it to the election campaign of Donald Trump, and possibly others, to influence voters by “psycho-targeted”...