COUNCIL MATTERS: Rossland City Council Meetings, December 9, 2019
Condo owners upset by noise from Mook Thai; Community Grants; embracing the Step Code; opposing water-bottling from groundwater, and more Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Janice Nightingale, Chris Bowman, Scott Forsyth, Stewart Spooner, Andy Morel and Dirk Lewis. PUBLIC HEARING on the Financial Plan Amendment...
Explainer: Clean B.C. is quietly using coal and gas power from out of province. Here’s why
By Sarah Cox, for The Narwhal Behind the sheen of its CleanBC program, the province holds back hydro power to instead import cheap electricity from 12 states including Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska and Montana which generate 55 to 90 per cent of their power from coal British Columbians naturally assume they’re using clean power...
Column: From the Hill -- on the job back in Ottawa
On Sunday I returned to Ottawa to prepare for the opening of the 43rd Parliament. Last week I was given my shadow cabinet roles—critic for Natural Resources and deputy critic for Transport. I was the critic for Natural Resources for the last four years so know that file well, and issues of transport intersect natural resources...
NDP MP Richard Cannings Named Party’s Critic for Natural Resources
Today, in Ottawa, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced that MP Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay) would return as Critic for Natural Resources in the shadow cabinet. Cannings has also been appointed Deputy Critic for Transport. “It’s a privilege to continue serving in our caucus and I’m very pleased that Jagmeet ...
Bill 41 passes unanimously in BC Legislature
Scott Fraser, Minister of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation; Regional Chief Terry Teegee, BC Assembly of First Nations; Cheryl Casimer, First Nations Summit; Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Union of BC Indian Chiefs; and Adam Olsen, MLA for Saanich North and the Islands and member of Tsartlip First Nation, have issued the...
Column: Our children's lives
On November 12, Veneto, Italy’s regional council was debating climate policy in its Venice offices. Minutes after a majority voted against budget amendments to address climate disruption, the chambers were inundated with water. Venice is known for flooding, but it’s getting worse, and the timing in this instance felt like a...
Council Matters: arena decision, no check-out bag exemption, cannabis processing, and TDI
Council Members Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Janice Nightingale, Scott Forsyth, Andy Morel, Steward Spooner and Chris Bowman. Public Input Period: James Brotherhood of 2613 Maple Crescent – a new Rosslander who has been following the arena discussion closely -- related societal problems of inactive...
RDKB elects new board chair
The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary Board of Directors elected new, first-time board chair Diane Langman at the November 13 board meeting. Director has represented the Village of Warfield on the RDKB Board for the last three years while she has served as mayor of Warfield. Vice-chair Grace McGregor has returned to her...
Province will act to discourage vaping
The Province will restrict vapour product access, flavours, nicotine content, packaging and advertising, and intends to increase taxes on vapour products, to protect youth from risks associated with vaping. “Some vaping manufacturers are using flavours and advertising to entice and normalize vaping for youth – introducing a...
BC taxpayers subsidized fracking companies to the tune of 1.2 billiion in two years
Although the amount of natural gas fracked in the northeast corner of the province has increased by 70 per cent over the last decade, British Columbia is increasingly out of pocket when it comes to collecting on this industry's resource royalties, according to newly released data By Judith Lavoie, for The Narwhal Fossil fuel...
