General

Midway border crossing on secret closure list

Map of Midway including the border; Courtesy of Castanet.net
A leaked government document about the future of Canada's border crossings -- including possible closure, reduced hours, sharing of facilities and remote monitoring --  lists Midway, Cascade, Nelway and Chopaka crossings.
 
The document, "Small Port Working Group - Initial Results and Paths Forward", was done collectively between Canada's Customs and Border Services Agency(CBSA) and U.S.

SD20 Board of Education draft difficult budget

35 people attended the public board meeting at the Trail Middle School

 How do you cut $1.2 million out of a School District's annual budget while having as little effect on the students' learning experience as possible? The board of SD20 grappled with that question Monday evening as they continued their budgeting process.

Got bats in your Koots?

Got bats in your Koots?

The successful Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP) is gearing up for another year of identifying local bat species, providing educational programs and workshops, and assisting landowners with bat issues.

Of the sixteen species of bats in BC, half of them are considered vulnerable or threatened and an additional species, the little brown myotis, has recently been assessed for federal Endangered status. Information on local bat species and their roost sites is an important part of bat conservation and management.

Atamanenko Concerned About Proposed Changes to Meat Inspection Regulations

Atamanenko Concerned About Proposed Changes to Meat Inspection Regulations

New Democrat MP, Alex Atamanenko (BC southern Interior) is appalled by the reckless changes to Meat Inspection Regulations (MIR) being proposed by the Conservative government that will leave Canadians wondering if the meat they buy is actually safe. Private inspectors, who may not be qualified, would now be able to inspect meat.  Worse, these changes to meat inspection rules also change what meat is acceptable – meaning already-dead meat and crippled animals’ meat will be okay for processing for Canadians’ tables.

Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia

Bush, aides convicted of Iraq war crimes in absentia by Malaysia

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia has found former President of the United States George W. Bush and seven prominent former colleagues guilty of war crimes.

DriveBC now offering webcam views of Kootenay Lake ferries

Cameras show the lineup at the Balfour Ferry Terminal.

The first of 30 new webcams to be installed this year on the DriveBC network are now live, giving motorists a real-time view of traffic queues, weather and road conditions at the Kootenay Lake ferry terminals.

DriveBC web cameras are now live at:

* The Balfour ferry terminal, 35 km east of Nelson, looking north toward Highway 3A: http://images.drivebc.ca/bchighwaycam/pub/html/www/303.html

Anyone with bats urged to report to Kootenay Community Bat Project

Large colony of yuma bats in attic of local house. — submitted photo

The successful Kootenay Community Bat Project (KCBP) is gearing up for another year of identifying local bat species, providing educational programs and workshops, and assisting landowners with bat issues.

Of the 16 species of bats in B.C., half of them are considered vulnerable or threatened and an additional species, the little brown myotis, has recently been assessed for federal Endangered status.

Information on local bat species and their roost sites is an important part of bat conservation and management.

POLICE: Bush party goes bad

POLICE: Bush party goes bad

A Grand Forks man has been charged after a bush party took an ugly turn Sunday night.

Timothy LaFreniere was charged with aggrevated assault and is scheduled to appear in court today.

At about 3:00 a.m. on May 13 the Grand Forks RCMP were called out to the local party spot known as moto after a complaint about a man with a knife. The bush party was being attended by teenagers and others in their early twenties.

COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform

COMMENT: TRIUMF Lab helps make case for electoral finance reform

Who would ever have thought that a single political donor could have disclosed so much about the sorry state of affairs surrounding money and politics in B.C.

In what they now call a “learning experience,” TRIUMF – Canada's nuclear physics laboratory located at the University of British Columbia – finally acknowledged last week that it wasn't the most prudent of moves to make $3,370 in political donations to the B.C. Liberal party over the past three years.

Symphony of the Kootenays in Jeopardy

Symphony of the Kootenays in Jeopardy

The non-profit organization that runs the Symphony of the Kootenays has decided to dissolve itself unless four new people come forward to sit on its dwindling board of directors of at a special meeting coming up on May 16 in Cranbrook.

But Hans Dekkers, the president of the society, says that even if four people do come forward, he is not optimistic that the orchestra can continue. “This is a personal opinion,” he says, “but even if we do get four people, it will just postpone the inevitable.”

Syndicate content