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Editorial: A malicious crime in Rossland; and a drunk driver on the Cascade Highway

Bees killed: The bees from a deliberately poisoned hive now lie writhing and dying.  Someone had gone into the fenced back yard and sprayed an industrial-strength wasp killer on the hive and the surrounding area, at a home on Victoria Avenue.    The hive of bees had been delivered just two weeks earlier, by the 99-year-old ...

Experts say Senate changes to environmental assessment bill are worse than Harper-era legislation

Following intensive lobbying by the oil and gas industry, the unelected Canadian Senate has approved more than 180 controversial amendments to Bill C-69. Experts describe the amendments as incoherent, badly drafted and an attempt to dodge climate change considerations. By Sarah Cox, for The Narwhal Alberta Premier Jason Kenney...

Free Neighbourhood Book Exchanges in Rossland

Neighbourhood book exchanges have been a feature of some European cities for years.  These are small collections of donated books, free for anyone to take or trade, that have been established by a book-loving resident and are available for needy readers 24/7.  (A “needy reader” is anyone who needs something...

Rosslanders talk (plastic) trash; fire on our minds; and more . . .

Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Janice Nightingale, Scott Forsyth, Dirk Lewis, Chris Bowman, and Stewart Spooner.  Absent:  Andy Morel.  Staff members:  CAO Bryan Teasdale, Deputy Corporate Officer Cynthia Año Nuevo, CFO Elma Hamming, City Planner Stacey Lightbourne, Manager of Operations Darrin Albo, and Recreation...

Letter: Federal Election Issues

Dear Editor, There will be a Federal election this October and I’m wondering what the various parties will tell us should be of concern: SNC Lavalin, taxing sugary drinks, immigration or a price on carbon?  When I consider that everything we do happens within “the environment”, locally and globally and that environment is being impacted […]

Seven Summits Centre for Learning Open House

Open House at Seven Summits Centre for Learning to show young people in the Kootenays that they really can have it all:  Pursuing what they love while they learn in and outside the classroom The team at Rossland’s Seven Summits Centre for Learning (7S) is planning to fling the doors of its iconic red roofed heritage...

Opinion: Nuclear Power is not the Answer in a Time of Climate Crisis

By Heidi Hutner and Erica Cirino; from Aeon In November 2018, the Woolsey Fire scorched nearly 100,000 acres of Los Angeles and Ventura counties, destroying forests, fields and more than 1,500 structures, and forcing the evacuation of nearly 300,000 people over 14 days. It burned so viciously that it seared a scar into the ...

Opinion: 'The Aristocrats' -- how Rachel Notley just drove another nail into Horatio Alger's coffin

By Stuart Parker As Hunter S. Thompson began to observe the failure of the 1960s and the rise of modern neoliberal capitalist retrenchment, he increasingly referenced Horatio Alger stories of the First Gilded Age to describe his own precarious position in a resurgent decadent American capitalist plutocracy. Las Vegas in the...

Column: How women's periods can affect their bowels

Hormones are the cause of digestive changes or discomfort for many women during their period. Changes in Estrogen and Progesterone before your period starts will cause symptoms such as bloating and constipation.  Other women experience diarrhea before or once their period starts and this is due to increased prostaglandins, ...

COLUMN: Theme for optimists -- Homo sapiens seeking self-improvement

“We are a way for the Cosmos to know itself.” -- Carl Sagan “... Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.” – Eckhart Tolle “Philosophers have only interpreted the world. The point is to change it.” – Karl Marx “You’re saying humans are...

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