With the recent evacuation alert issued for those near the Eagle Bluff wildfire, Green Party candidate Tara Howse expresses her concerns and well-wishes to those families affected and considers the role of the federal government to address the roots of these events: climate change and energy production. “By 2030, it is estimated...

Police were called to investigate a boat stolen from a property on the 900 block of Waterloo Road. The owner of a 2014 Xcursion pontoon boat discovered that his boat and trailer had been stolen off his property sometime during the night of Friday, Aug. 2.  The boat is blue and grey in colour with […]

From renowned marine biologist Daniel Pauly, a fascinating analysis of our collapsed global fisheries and a revolutionary vision for their future; courtesy of The Narwhal This is an excerpt adapted with permission of the publisher from the book Vanishing Fish  by Daniel Pauly, published May 28, 2019 by Greystone Books....

Story by Jas Baweja Staff were buzzing with energy early July when they walked in to work to find bunches of bees gathered on the grounds at Brilliant Dam, a power generation facility owned by Columbia Power Corporation and Columbia Basin Trust, and operated by FortisBC.  While the bees were minding their own business,...

Who Owns Your Grocery Store? A new book about consumer-owned grocery stores pulls back the curtain on the grocery giants.  Author Jon Steinman will be reading at the Rossland Public Library on September 3 at 6:30 pm. For many of us fortunate enough to be able to purchase our food from a grocery store, rarely do we give...

Part Two I began an exploration of a Stoic prose-poem, The Desiderata, in the last edition of the column, and continue it in this one. Stoicism is interesting in its own right, but also because it has been enjoying a modern revival. If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be...

No amount of evidence is ever enough to convince climate science deniers — including the politicians among them. But new studies and observations should at least persuade those who profess to understand global heating but appear not to grasp its severity that it’s time to start deploying the many available solutions. We’ve ...

The federal election will be here before we know it. One of our riding’s candidates in the upcoming federal election is finding that quite a few people don’t have even a rudimentary understanding of the fact that our different levels of government are responsible for different things, or what those things are. “Someone asked...

The conversation around pipelines and oil sands in Canada has been so heated and polarized it’s difficult to sort hype from fact.  It’s often hard to have an informed conversation about the issue, let alone an informed debate. On the one side we have people who are deeply concerned about the climate emergency facing us.  It...

Columbia River levels are going to increase roughly 1.4 feet over the next two days, according to Stakeholder Engagement Advisor Mary Anne Coules. “We`re asking that people exercise extra caution and make safety their top priority when engaging in activity on or near the Columbia River,” she said. In a press release issued this morning, […]