After months of disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many people just want to get back to “normal.” We will overcome this crisis. But “normal” means continued climate disruption and species extinction, growing inequalities, increasing pollution and health risks and the possibility of further new disease outbreaks. We...

Rossland City Council Meeting, June 1, 2020 Trash talk, new fees and charges bylaw, greening the fleet By web conference Present:   Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Dirk Lewis, Stewart Spooner, Andy Morel, Chris Bowman, and Janice Nightingale. Staff present who spoke during the meeting:  Manager of Special Projects  Darrin...

  “And the human race just kept rollin’ on. Rolling through the fighting, rolling through the religious wars, rolling through the temple walls, and the churches’ exposed sores.”     (Neil Young, Looking for a Leader, Greendale lp) Free-association historical ramble Some curiosities of the past surface through this column,...

There has been a lot of misinformation and hyperbole lately about how the House of Commons will be conducting business over the next few weeks.   Regular sittings of Parliament were suspended in mid-March because of the COVID-19 crisis.  Since then, the House of Commons has been working, and in many ways working harder and ...

Visitors to the Rossland Museum will see, and hear, a drilling rig operating on the lower bench area nearby.  Teck has sent a notice to inform the community of the geotechnical drilling program, to take place from June 1 through June 12, 2020, and to assure everyone that there will be no traffic disruption resulting from...

By Carolyn Emery, for The Conversation While sports facilities and leagues are still gauging how and when to reopen in the wake of the coronavirus, now is the best time to think about concussion prevention: before young people get back on the playing field. The benefits of sport and physical activity are significant, and yet,...

Readers will already have read some articles about what our society needs to do to build a better world post-COVID-19.  Analyzing our world as it is now rapidly reveals an urgent need for major change on many fronts. Many of us seem to share a hope that the pandemic will provoke serious, multi-faceted assessment of our current...

Rosslanders may have noticed a yellow helicopter flying over town in a south-westerly direction on Saturday, May 23, 2020.  It was en route to evacuate an injured mountain biker from the Paterson area – a 34-year-old man who had crashed his bike on a trail known as “Super Mega Death.” The man had lost consciousness and suffered...

Remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal ? -- when a right-wing company “harvested” information on millions (maybe 50 million, maybe up to 87 million) of its users from Facebook, without their knowledge or permission, and sold it to the election campaign of Donald Trump, and possibly others, to influence voters by “psycho-targeted”...

RCMP said a Trail resident on Topping Street thought that the trunk of her car would be a good place to store the garbage overnight before setting it out for pick-up in the morning. Police said the owner then left passenger compartment unlocked. The smell of garbage was too much for a bear to resist, because at 9:50 pm, the...