Sexton Blake performed to a happy crowd at the Joe Hill Coffeehouse on Sunday, March 18, and was forced by the sound guy – Scott Forsythe – to make an announcement:  at the Kootenay Music Awards: Sexton Blake won the award for Best Music Video. The event resulted in prizes to musicians in ten different categories, awarded to...

Members of the 2018 Canadian Olympic ski team will be able to compete at Red Mountain in Rossland during spring break thanks to the addition of new racing equipment. With $25,000 from Columbia Basin Trust, the Red Mountain Racers have purchased homologated ALGE dual start doors – an electronically timed gate approved by the...

How do the oceans affect life in the Kootenays? With World Water Day coming up on March 22, let’s think, not only about how lucky we are to have enough fresh water, but also about how vast and distant saltwater oceans affect us all, everywhere. Many people have viewed the video clip of a diver swimming near Bali through a sea...

Attention, readers of books . . . and anyone who secretly or not-so-secretly enjoys writing, or would like to write, and anyone who would like to meet some of Rossland’s published writers; set aside a series of Tuesday evenings this spring. The Rossland Public Library has a treat lined up – a whole series of treats....

Editor’s Note:  This is such a cheering article because it shows that people can decide to check out facts, and do it, and then change their minds on contentious issues. By Bud Ward, of Yale Climate Connections Climate change policy analyst* Jerry Taylor spent more than 25 years earning his well-deserved reputation as the...

Regular Meeting of Rossland City Council, March 12, 2018 Immediately after the crowded Public Hearing, Council members – everyone was there except Councillor Aaron Cosbey -- got down to business. First up was Public Input Period, and Council heard requests from some parents about funding for the TRP.  One request was that the...

Zoning amendment for cabins near Paradise Lodge attracts a crowd Rossland City Council’s Public Hearing, held at the Miners Union Hall, attracted quite a crowd on Monday, March 12, 2018. Many chairs had been set out for the public gallery, but as people kept coming in, they got more chairs for themselves from the stacks along...

It’s International Women’s Day – a day I usually use to applaud the progress and accomplishments of my gender. How cool that few would dare, any longer, refer to us as the “weaker sex” (at least not in our hearing), and that no one bats an eye when a woman’s title is Dr. rather than […]

Anishinaabe economist and writer Winona LaDuke identifies two types of economies, grounded in different ways of seeing. Speaking in Vancouver recently, she characterized one as an “extreme extractive economy” fed by exploitation of people and nature. The second is a “regenerative economy” based on an understanding of the land...

(Part One ended with this paragraph: On the political right and left, fascists and communists have similarly tried to impose social engineering on the peoples they ruled. But the fascist type of right-wing ideologues are modernists, not traditional conservatives.) Part Two: It is time to consider conservatism. Conservatives:...