Writers Take Note -- Essay Contest: $10,000 Prize
Friends of Canadian Broadcasting announcement: The Dalton Camp Award will go to the winner or winners of an essay competition on the link between democracy and the media in Canada. For thirteen years now, FRIENDS has sponsored the Dalton Camp Award, an essay competition honouring the memory of a great Canadian journalist ...
Council Pulls the Plug on Rapid Rate Changes
Council has decided to pull the plug on the proposed changes to its water and sewer rate structures in time for a January 1st rate change. The proposed changes to Rossland’s water and sewer rate structure, now out for consultations, had problems Council identified even before they splashed out and asked for citizen input. ...
Local Resident Receives National Environmental Education Award
Monica Nissen, local Nelson resident and Director of Wildsight’s education programs, was awarded a prestigious national award in Canmore last week—the 2015 Canadian Network for Environmental Education and Communication Award of Excellence. Monica’s passion for the wilderness and her gift for teaching drew her into the field...
Want democratic reform? Let’s start with the country’s newspapers
Observing the cathartic effect of the end the Harper regime reveals just how traumatized millions of Canadians were by nearly 10 years of rule by this vindictive prime minister. The analogies and metaphors keep coming: like getting out of jail, like waking up from a nightmare, like the end of an occupation. This election will...
Water and Sewer Costs, our Economy, and Huge Surprises: Bah Humbug.
In about the year 2000, I calculated that the average residential property in Canada was being under-taxed by about $1500 per year, just to provide the money that would have been needed then to pay the “infrastructure debt” hiding under our streets. That number was so far from what people have come to think is a bearable...
"Passenger" Ski Film by Andre Nutini and Dave Peacock (Local Guys!)
David Peacock of Rossland and Andre Nutini of Warfield, both RSS grads, have just finished co-directing a 2 year filming project for Red Bull. Their movie is narrated by local graphic artist Rob Sulman and will be shown in the Royal Theatre in Trail on November 5: http://www.royaltheatretrail.com/comingup Asked what inspired...
Sustainable Development Goals: A Path to Prosperity
By David Suzuki Sustainable development means different things to different people. The concept was popularized in 1987 by the groundbreaking Brundtland Commission report to the United Nations, “Our Common Future”. Over the past three decades it has entered conversations around global poverty, health, environmental quality...
Washington Street Design Features; Changes in Council Meeting Schedule
Rossland City Council, October 26, 2015 All Council members were present: Mayor Kathy Moore, Councillors Lloyd McLellan, John Greene, Andrew Zwicker, Marten Kruysse, Andy Morel and Aaron Cosbey. Staff: Deputy Corporate Officer Cynthia Añonuevo, Planner Stacey Lightbourne, Manager of Public Works Darrin Albo. Absent: ...
Remembrance Day Meditation on War and Peace
“War is like a football game. Whoever loses gives his opponent his hand, and everything is forgotten.” -- Herman Goering, Nazi #2 Do laws to regulate war, make war appear legitimate? If one opposes war, one might argue that it is highly inappropriate, to say the least, to make rules regulating the...
Have a Shot of Tequila Mockingbird!
If you have never seen Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra perform, or just haven’t seen them recently, you have been missing out. Luckily for you, Rossland Council for Arts and Culture is bringing them to the Miners Hall on Saturday, November 14. Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra are a collection of musicians, linked by common sonic...
