Issues

The Kootenay to Kitimat Caravan to protest Enbridge’s plans for a northern tar sands pipeline made one of their first stops in a 10 day journey in Grand Forks today gathering support and raising awareness.

Meeting a small gathering of locals at Gyro Park on Highway 3, the four men, Keith Wiley, Michael Gilfillan, Tom Nixon and Jim Tarral, fondly nicknamed the Geezer Gang, rallied the group to encourage continued pressure on government to stop the pipeline.

In a story in the Nelson Daily on July 5, we outlined the changes to federal electoral ridings proposed by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for British Columbia

Nelson will be moving from the Southern Interior federal electoral riding to the Kootenay--Columbia riding, if a recommendation by the 2012 Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for British Columbia holds. 

The proposed move applies also to Areas A, B, C, and G of the Regional District of Central Kootenay and to the town of Salmo.

Moving from NDP to Conservative territory

Truth be told, the truth is elusive.

It can never be “final” since it is grounded in the human mindset and limited to facts known at a point in time.

As more details become known, social attitudes and customs change and a new truth emerges.

This is our life story, yet humans hunger for a reality that is anchored to our senses. If we can’t see, hear, touch, smell, or taste it, our social conditioning tells us it is not true.

Our eyes tell us the world is flat, but photos taken from Apollo spacecraft show a round Earth.