On Saturday we celebrated the grand opening of our brand-new Lower Columbia Community Health Center in downtown Trail! Photo is with the Lower Columbia Community Health Center Board who was the driving force in making this happen! The Lower Columbia Community Health Centre will provide high-quality primary health care for people living in and around […]

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has declared a nationwide strike at Canada Post effective immediately in response to the federal government’s reforms. Quoting the union’s website statement, “In response to the Government’s attack on our postal service and workers, effective immediately, all CUPW members at Canada Post are on a nation-wide strike.” This […]

Because the fossil fuel industry and its supporters have done everything they can to stall needed solutions to the climate crisis, some people say we must now engineer our way out of the mess we created. Many are promoting schemes that block sunlight from reaching Earth, reflect more of it back into space or absorb […]

The B.C. Wildlife Federation is pleased by the Public Safety Minister’s admission that the federal firearms buyback program is flawed policy, but we are perplexed that it will proceed, nonetheless. The Minister said that if he had the firearm ban to do over again, he would focus on jailing people for using illegal firearms rather than […]

The B.C. General Employees’ Union (BCGEU) is continuing its sharp escalation of job action this week as the province-wide public service strike enters its fourth week—the longest public service strike in B.C.’s history. Today, workers have walked off the job at additional sites in Victoria, Penticton, Cranbrook, Coquitlam and Kamloops. In total, more than 12,500 public […]

The Save Record Ridge Action Committee (SRRAC) has filed a petition for judicial review in B.C. Supreme Court, challenging an Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) decision not to require an environmental assessment (EA) for the proposed Record Ridge magnesium mine. “We are asking the Supreme Court to send this decision back to the EAO, directing it […]

Have you noticed, over the past few years, a rising tide of intolerance for people of other ethnicities, other backgrounds, other religions, other political views, other just-about-anything?  More recently, that intolerance has burst out into violence more often – most notably, south of the  border, but it’s also happening in Canada. The federal government’s recent […]

We recognize the urgent need to build more homes for people struggling to find a reasonably priced place that meet their needs. More new rentals are being built than ever before, helping growing families, individuals, seniors, and people living with disabilities find homes they can afford. Monday September 15th in City of Trail we broke ground on […]

At the CoW: discussing how best to support community groups and keep spending within reason … living in la la land?  At the regular Council  meeting:  Should Rossland have an air quality monitor?  More from the Family Action Network; the pool needs two new boilers;  Council refuses a request to spend $200,00 on renovations to […]

Parts of an Empire Russians of the former Soviet imperial power, in the period 1945-90, with their formal annexations [e.g. Armenia, Ukraine], client states [Mongolia, Cuba], and occupied satellite nations [Poland, Romania]  regarded Canada as belonging to America’s empire, not different in status from Soviet imperial dependencies. Canada was a solidly-American client, a dependency, a […]