By David Suzuki With the December Paris climate agreement, leaders and experts from around the world showed they overwhelmingly accept that human-caused climate change is real and, because the world has continued to increase fossil fuel use, the need to curb and reduce emissions is urgent. In light of this, I don’t get the ...

Wait, what's ThoughtExchange? Rossland-based ThoughtExchange  makes use of technology for what we might call "crowdthinking."  It has created a system for sharing information and eliciting thoughts and ideas from any  number of people, from 5 to 50,0000, and allowing them to respond to each other's thoughts,  ideas and points...

The Trail RCMP want the public to be aware of a prolific phone scam currently targeting residents of Trail, Rossland, and the surrounding areas. People are receiving phone calls from a male claiming to be "Shawn White from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)"  who threatens police or court action unless the resident calls a 1-900...

Anaheim Ducks forward (and former Castlegar Rebel) Shawn Horcoff has been suspended for 20 games, without pay, for violating the terms of the NHL/NHLPA Performance Enhancing Substances Program. Under the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, the suspension is accompanied by mandatory referral to the NHL/NHLPA Program for Substance Abuse and Behavioral Health for evaluation […]

A combined Trail/Nelson team will represent the Kootenays when the BC Senior Women’s Curling Championships begin February 15-21 in Richmond. Team Matthews, consisting of skip Marnie Matthews and third Rose Beauchamp of Trail and second Carol Bennettt and lead Cathy McLeod, both of Nelson, recently defeated Heather Nichols of Castlegar to capture the zone berth. […]

RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said in a media release Monday evening a search of a home in Nakusp confirmed that the items found in the home were explosives. "At around 7:30 p.m. Monday evening, the Nakusp RCMP released the scene of their investigation at a local mobile home park," Cpl. Dan Moskaluk said. "The BC RCMP Explosives...

Food from "away": It's becoming common knowledge that most of the food we eat here in BC comes from other places:  rice from Asia or California, oranges and orange juice from Florida, Texas or California, vegetables and almonds mostly from California, wheat and other grains from the prairies,  and convenience foods -- prepared...

Will Trudeau Take a Neo-Keynesian Approach? Place your bets. Will Justin Trudeau and his economic advisors choose a neo-Keynesian approach to the growing economic disaster facing the country or will it stick to the neo-liberal ideology that has been the stock response of Liberal and Conservative governments for the past 30 ...

The Nelson Leafs know they can play with the best in the Murdoch Division. Now the players overcome the hurdle by registering a few wins. Nick Headrick scored a power play goal in overtime to spark the Rebels to a 2-1 Kootenay International Junior Hockey League victory over the Leafs Saturday night in Castlegar. Headrick […]

The Sonny Samuelson Bobsled Race is also a fundraiser for the Rossland Skatepark Association (RSA)  this year.   Registration for the bobsled race  is easier than ever now because it has moved on-line. RSA board member Barry McLane said,  "We approached race organizer Kelly Acheson with the idea of having race teams collect...