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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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’ […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

These are difficult times for a lot of Canadians.  At the top of the list is the difficulty many have in finding affordable housing.  Groceries continue to rise in price.  And rounding out the list is always the price of gasoline. Over the past three years, gas prices have gone up by about a dollar […]

PRESENT:  Mayor Andy Morel, and Councillors Maya Provençal, Lisa Kwiatkowski, Jeff Weaver, and Eliza Boyce.  Absent:  Craig Humpherys and Stewart Spooner.   Staff:  CAO Bryan Teasdale, Deputy Corporate Officer Cynthia Añonuevo,  CFO Mike Kennedy, City Planner Stacey Lightbourne, Manager of Operations and Infrastructure Scott Lamont, Manager of Recreation and Events Kristi Calder, and Executive Assistant Rachel […]