We tend to think of the post office as a place just to get and send our snail-mail, especially parcels.  We may have to change that thought: Canada’s postal workers are in negotiations for a new contract, and they are proposing some interesting things. They’re also authorized to go on strike. But that’s the stick:  they’re ...

How is it that intelligent people can disagree about so many things?  Aren’t the facts well-known? Usually, yes; so why is there still all this argument?  The mechanism by which we can all reject and totally ignore  facts when they contradict beliefs dear to our hearts is becoming better-known: The Oatmeal explained it...

To The Editor:   Would you vote for a party list without candidates? Of course, you wouldn't, and neither would anybody else. Of course, we will keep local representation under pro rep, and of course nobody will be 'appointed' an MLA unless we vote for them. How dumb do Liberal Party bosses think BC voters are that we would...

UPDATED:  Rossland City Council meetings, October 9, 2018 Present:  Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Lloyd McLellan, Aaron Cosbey, Andy Morel, Andrew Zwicker and John Greene. Present by phone: Marten Kruysse. PUBLIC HEARING On the bylaw to re-zone the land at 2812 Cedar Crescent from R1  (single-family residential) to CD-7...

Last week I became a grandfather for the first time.  Politicians are fond of talking about what kind of future we will leave our grandchildren, but I can now say that having a grandchild sharpens that perspective dramatically. On Thanksgiving Monday, two news headlines jumped out at me, both dealing with our path to a...

News that Environment and Climate Change Canada is considering “priority threat management” to assess endangered species is troubling. The method is often used to inform a “triage” approach in which some species are abandoned to focus resources on others ranked higher priority. The federal government is legally required to ...

At Tuesday evening’s Public Hearing on the re-zoning of the land at 2812 Cedar Crescent in the Pinewood neighbourhood, some of those presenting their concerns kept repeating that the distance to downtown from that location “is unwalkable.” (To  me, the walkability or not was irrelevant to the re-zoning, because it would be ...

Rossland has a new Forest Park.  Come and get introduced to it – learn, and dig in to make it even better, and then have some celebratory BBQ! The Rossland Society for Environmental Action invites everyone to come and get grubby at the new Forest Park, on Sunday, October 14. Meet at the Red Barn Lodge at 9:00 a.m....

Renowned biologist Edward O. Wilson says to protect nature, people must regain their innate love for it. That means spending time in nature. While the concepts in Wilson’s book Biophilia have gained widespread acceptance since its publication more than 30 years ago, we’re still facing serious problems based on a lack of...

Introduction:  Both sides of the Proportional Representation debate have made claims about what the effects of a ProRep system would be.  Here, two Political Science specialists delve into the major claims made about ProRep by both sides. We’ll examine a different claim each week.  This week, we look at...