NDP gets its knuckles rapped by Elections BC
VICTORIA – Administrative monetary penalties have been issued and posted on the Elections BC website at https://elections.bc.ca/resources/investigations/administrative-monetary-penalties. In 2017 the Election Act was amended to give the Chief Electoral Officer the authority to levy administrative monetary penalties in specific...
Choose your new City Council! Here are the candidates' answers.
NOTE: This item is still up because more voters may need to read it before the election. Candidates who responded (all but one) have answered nine questions. This year, Rosslanders get to choose who will form our new City Council and shape Rossland for the next four years. Mayor Kathy Moore has been acclaimed, but we have six...
COLUMN: From the Hill -- the new trade agreement
After months of negotiations and a seemingly endless series of false deadlines, negotiators have hammered out a new trade agreement between Canada, the USA and Mexico. The new agreement (called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA for short) will create winners and losers, of course, and the general consensus...
UPDATED: Don't vote for Zwicker! He explains why.
[Ed.: Please -- do NOT vote for Andrew zwicker in the upcoming civic election. He has withdrawn from candidacy, but too late to have his name taken off the ballot. If people vote for him anyway in a misguided show of support, it would trigger an expensive by-election and cost taxpayers money. And no, the City is not allowed...
Electoral Reform: Checking the facts -- Part one
Electoral reform fact check: the series -- #1 Both sides of the Proportional Representation (“ProRep”) debate have made claims about what the effects of a ProRep system would be. What should voters believe? Here, two Political Science specialists delve into the major claims made about ProRep by both sides, to distinguish...
Six cabins for Paradise; Follies quandary; more glyphosate sprayed on Oregon grape; Allan Davies and paperwork
Regular Rossland City Council Meeting, September 24, 2018 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors John Greene, Marten Kruysse, Andrew Zwicker and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Lloyd McLellan and Andy Morel Public Input Period: Lisa Henderson spoke on behalf of the Gold Fever Follies. She explained that the Gold Fever Follies...
Rossland Street Lights, by the numbers
Rossland City Council held a Committee of the Whole meeting, 3:00 pm, September 24, 2018 Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors John Greene, Marten Kruysse, Andrew Zwicker and Aaron Cosbey. Absent: Lloyd McLellan and Andy Morel Bright lights, or dark skies? There are advocates for both. Rossland Council has tried to...
COLUMN: Observations of Chaos from my Watchtower
“All along the watchtower…There's too much confusion, the hour is getting late... Bob Dylan “Here we are in the years… Children cry in fear, ‘let us out of here.’” Neil Young By Charles Jeanes So much food for thought, and limited space on the plate...
The excitement of our civic election -- yes, really!
The civic election is coming up! On October 20, the official election day, we cast our votes for candidates, and six of them (plus acclaimed Mayor Kathy Moore) will form our new City Council. Think about it – please! It’s exciting! Who will govern our community? Will they be focused on the long-term best interests of the...
Report: Analysis of BC's media coverage on electoral reform
By Fair Vote Canada BC citizens are being asked to pronounce themselves on the subject of electoral reform in this fall’s upcoming referendum. This is an issue of significant importance and interest to all of us and if citizens are to vote wisely, they need to be as well informed as possible. “Many citizens place a great deal...
