Earth’s oceans, lakes, rivers and streams are its circulatory system, providing life’s essentials for people, animals and ecosystems.  Canada has one-fifth of the world’s freshwater, a quarter of its remaining wetlands and its longest coastline.  With this abundance, it’s easy to take water for granted.  Many of our daily...

Stephen Harper, Donald Trump, and Angry Democracies “It’s an angry world but no doubt everything will go as planned.”                                                                        -- Neil Young, Angry World, from Le Noise The unavoidable comparison: Canada observes the USA When I was in secondary school and my young...

          Measuring your  pH is simple.  Take any 4 days and test every urination after the first urination in the morning with a indicator paper (called pH paper), which show the pH values between 4.0-7.5. (These you can buy at your friendly compounding pharmacy or spa store).  If the value shows repeatedly below pH 7.0...

The event was well-attended.  Mayor Moore and our Member of Parliament Richard Cannings were there, and Council members John Greene and Andrew Zwicker, and a good crowd of Rossland's other famously engaged citizens  attended to view and discuss the displays created  by Selkirk College students.  The students were there too,...

The Director for the Slocan Valley Heritage Trail Society is pleased with a recent announcement that sees the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure designing a pedestrian underpass into plans to replace the South Slocan Bridge on Highway 3A. Craig Lawrence said the SVHTS has been lobbying the ministry to build a tunnel under the newly […]

Editorial Note:   In the column below,  Dermod Travis points out many instances of close correlation between large donations  by corporations to the Liberal Party of  BC and lucrative contracts awarded to  those corporations.  Now, as any scientist will tell us, correlation is not proof of causation -- but it's a good reason...

Most residents of the Columbia Basin know something about the Columbia River Treaty.   In 1964, Canada and the United States entered into this agreement to construct and operate dams on the upper Columbia River, for flood control and power production to benefit both countries.  Both BC and the US have benefited economically,...

It wasn’t supposed to be so tough, but playoff hockey is prone to unpredictable outcomes. But when push came to shove, the defending British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League fought of a pesky University of Victoria Vikes to capture the best-of-three series Sunday night in Castlegar with a 3-1 victory. “He [Vikes goaltender Scott Legault] had […]

While mild temperatures and steady rain have some locals concerned about the rapidly warming globe, weather experts assure The Nelson Daily that the warm and wet weather this winter in the West Kootenay region is par for the course. While global warming is certainly a legitimate concern, and the Nelson area has felt unseasonably...

One additional officer should be hired for Nelson Police Department said  Director of Police Services, Clayton Pecknold in his report to City Council and Nelson Police Board. The report, which includes Pecknold recommending the addition of an administrative position, was announced in a media release by the City of Nelson...