Right now, the Tamil people-smugglers are assessing Canada and, the more friendly they discover our shores for their human payload, the more ships bursting with Sri Lankans they will be able to send. It is an outcome that, under current laws, Canada is powerless to avoid. The only alternative is to modify the existing system. […]

I was having a really bad day last week; in fact, it was a bad day in a string of bad days, and what I wanted most was to wallow in a nice bath for the evening and go to bed early with my cat. Instead, someone reminded me that the Follies was ending a week earlier than normal (something I should have known from my visit with...

by: Zoe McKnight, National Post   A global campaign has emerged to save the dozen or more black bears found protecting the site of a million-dollar marijuana grow-op in British Columbia. Doreen McCrindle, a Calgary woman who said she is just an animal lover, is behind an online push to stop the B.C. government from euthanizing […]

Castlegar police are working on a file that serves as a cautionary tale for would-be criminals: If you’re going to steal a bunch of stuff, including a car, you’d do well to avoid having a couple of drinks before toodling aimlessly around town at 2:45 a.m. in said stolen car, which happens to contain a […]

 On Aug. 23, Nakusp and Slocan Lake RCMP took down a large outdoor marihuana grow operation. The grow op was located on Crown land near McKean Road in Winlaw. The three adult male suspects were arrested on scene, attending to the plants. A total of 657 plants were removed as well as a significant amount […]

 Police got to see evidence of the other Big Bang theory in Greenwood last week, as the execution of a search warrant uncovered dynamite, a grenade and several loaded weapons. “It should also be noted that the residence had a surveillance system set up with a live camera view of the front gate/yard area onto […]

Rossland has recently been provided with an opportunity to participate in the RDKB Operational Fuel Management Program. The primary goal of the program is to reduce hazardous forest fuel loads as identified in Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP’s) adjacent to communities. The program is funded entirely through provincial...

 There are now three Facebook groups and an online petition with almost 1,000 signatures, all dedicated to saving the bears found at a Christina Lake grow-op last month. (See EXCLUSIVE: Interview with officers who raided bear-protected grow op; The Castlegar Source, August 2010).   The online petition says this: “Police involved in a Canadian drug […]

The fate of up to 15 bears who were being fed by a woman in Christina Lake, possibly as guards for a grow op, is in the hands of nature. The woman involved with the July 30 marijuana bust on her property has been feeding bears for years. Neighbours near her residence have often been […]

 Marijuana and bears and raccoons, oh my! Only in the Kootenays.   I see the humour in the story – who wouldn’t, when a cop watches a massive bear crawl onto his squad car and refers to it as a “big Kootenay hood ornament”? (Although I feel compelled to point out my heroic restraint in […]