DriveSmart BC: We Need Better Lines and More Reflectors
Here's another complaint from the DriveSmartBC Inbox: "Please speak to the situation that I call the "Invisible White Lines" on our highways as soon as we get some rain and whilst driving in the dark. Night visibility in winter is terrible. There are no reflectors on the highway edge like in Washington State. And don't let ...
Commercial vehicle loaded with volatile substance catches fire, prompts highway closure near Merritt
Highway 97C the Okanagan Connector remains closed in all directions, east of the Highway 5A Junction, as crews continue their work to assess a hazardous commercial vehicle fire. On December 31, 2019 at approximately 1 a.m., Merritt RCMP received a report of a commercial truck fire along Highway 97C east of the Highway 5A Aspen...
Selkirk College Students Use Business Skills to Support First Nation Economic Resilience
Graduating students in the School of Business at Selkirk College put their education into action for a case competition focused on a northern Ontario First Nation. Teams of students created mocked-up economic development plans for the Atikameksheng First Nation and presented their proposals to a panel of local judges that...
David Suzuki bringing climate talk to Trail
"The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it.” That’s a quote from David Suzuki, who is coming to Trail on May 1, 2020 to speak at a public event at the Trail Memorial Centre. An evening with David Suzuki - Human impact on our environment will feature his observations about our collective impact on the environment and...
Column: From the Hill -- on the job back in Ottawa
On Sunday I returned to Ottawa to prepare for the opening of the 43rd Parliament. Last week I was given my shadow cabinet roles—critic for Natural Resources and deputy critic for Transport. I was the critic for Natural Resources for the last four years so know that file well, and issues of transport intersect natural resources...
Selkirk College Saints Back Home for Final Games of Semester
The Selkirk College Saints return home this weekend where the team hopes the holiday spirit will be on their side as they wrap up the first semester of play against the Simon Fraser University Clan. Winless in their last four British Columbia Intercollegiate Hockey League (BCIHL) games, the Saints head into the two-game set...
Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute Provides Vital Insight Into Region
The Columbia Basin Rural Development Institute (RDI) at Selkirk College has just released the 2019 Snapshot Report, a region wide check-up that investigates economic, social, environmental and cultural indicators for the Columbia-Basin Boundary. “RDI is continuing to provide research on well-being to support evidence-based ...
NDP MP Richard Cannings Named Party’s Critic for Natural Resources
Today, in Ottawa, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh announced that MP Richard Cannings (South Okanagan—West Kootenay) would return as Critic for Natural Resources in the shadow cabinet. Cannings has also been appointed Deputy Critic for Transport. “It’s a privilege to continue serving in our caucus and I’m very pleased that Jagmeet ...
Police to crack down on impaired driving this December
Impaired driving enforcement is a national priority and BC RCMP Traffic Services and its partners support this priority by increasing enforcement efforts across the Province to stop impaired drivers this holiday season. Sunday, Dec. 1 marks the start of the provincial, month-long CounterAttack impaired driving campaign which...
Solar Project Creates New Energy at Selkirk College
The roof of Selkirk College’s main building on the Castlegar Campus has been transformed as the regional post-secondary focuses on a future less reliant on non-renewable energy sources. In October, the college installed a solar array on the roof of the library that includes 275 panels with the capacity to produce an estimated...
