Province supports climate-emergency readiness project in Rossland
To help strengthen resilience against climate-related hazards, the Province is providing funding to the City of Rossland for a project to help build climate resilience in the community. Rossland will receive $40,000 to develop a climate action plan and report card, which will include disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation goals, objectives and strategies to […]
Outstanding Selkirk College Educators Honoured
It was an evening to celebrate those who fuel the engine of education with four outstanding Selkirk College instructors honoured as 2023 SCOPE Award recipients. The annual Standing Committee on Professional Excellence (SCOPE) Awards are an opportunity for both students and colleagues to recognize the talents and passion of instructors from across Selkirk College programs. […]
Remember to set clocks back Sunday as Daylight Savings Time ends
It’s time to call the end to Daylight Savings Time for 2023 as the first weekend in November, Sunday at 2 a.m., is when clocks will be set back one hour. The time changes means Canadians can expect another hour of sleep Sunday night as well as earlier nights and brighter mornings as the calendar […]
Info session on Columbia River Treaty now available to watch online
A Columbia River Treaty information session about Low Levels in Arrow Lakes Reservoiron Oct. 18 is now available to watch online. It was attended by by 223 people from communities within the Canadian Columbia Basin including Nakusp, Fauquier, Revelstoke, Castlegar, Nelson and others. We also had a few participants from the U.S. A full recording […]
COLUMN: 'Looking up' (or not) won't fix the climate crisis
By David Suzuki At the end of the film Don’t Look Up — in which a comet hurtling toward Earth serves as a blunt metaphor for the climate crisis — astronomy professor Randall Mindy (played by Leonard DiCaprio) says, “We really did have everything, didn’t we?” It’s true. This spinning ball of earth, water and […]
Analysis: Anti-LGBTQ+ hostility on the rise in Canada
By Christopher Dietzel, Hannah Maitland, and Stephanie Jonsson; originally published in The Conversati0n In the past few years, people who identify as LGBTQ+ have been facing increasing harm and discrimination. Canada is not insulated from growing anti-queer and anti-trans sentiment. The Saskatchewan government recently passed a controversial bill that requires students to get their parents’ […]
Racist vandalism discovered at Rossland French school
On Friday, Oct. 20, at 8:57 a.m., a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officers received a report that an unknown suspect(s) had vandalized the Ecole Des Sept-Sommets French Immersion School, in Rossland, according to RCMP Sgt. Mike Wicentowich. He said school officials discovered that someone had spray painted graphic pictures and a racist word […]
The Potentially High Risks of Alternative Health Care
By: Michelle Gamage, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Originally published in The Tyee Alternative health care is on the rise in Canada, and with it, the risks associated with unproven therapies. New research from the University of British Columbia’s school of nursing and the University of Alberta’s Health Law Institute found 42 per cent of […]
Trail man sustains non-fatal gunshot wound during home invasion
On Sunday, Oct. 22, at 10:30 p.m., frontline Trail and Greater District and Castlegar RCMP officers responded to a report of a home invasion in the 400 block of Rossland Avenue in Trail. When officers arrived at the residence they discover a 55-year-old Trail man had sustained a non-life-threatening gun shot wound to his abdomen. […]
We are killing bears
By Sue Wrigley This is a very difficult piece to write. I am devastated. Five bears had to be killed in Rossland about 10 days ago. The Conservation Officers didn’t kill these bears – the behaviour and attitudes of the people of Rossland did. The COs went into a career that protects wildlife and the […]
