Anyone following online citizen media closely this month, would inevitably have come across the heated global debate over the Invisible Children viral campaign to stop Ugandan war criminal and rebel army leader Joseph Kony. While the Kony 2012 campaign certainly received the attention it sought, many Ugandans and Africans...

By Lois Beckett in ProPublica. Instead of picketing outside company headquarters, an advocacy group is using Facebook ads to try to influence people whose profiles identify them as employees of Freddie Mac or JPMorgan Chase. The anti-foreclosure ad campaign, which launches today, asks Freddie and Chase employees to talk to ...

A former Catholic nun who first gained the spotlight with her 1993 book A History of God: The 4,000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,  Karen Armstrong is now an author of 20 books that focus largely on commonalities of major religions – including the nearly universally but often-ignored principle of compassion....

No new provincial dollars has Selkirk College staff scrambling to find an expected million-dollar shortfall in the budget for the next academic year. The recent provincial budget confirmed that the funding levels for college operations throughout B.C. for the coming year would remain unchanged. However, those funds will then be reduced over the successive two […]

Now that the snow is beginning to, well, melt, campers and hikers will be eager to get to the phone or computer to start making plans for summer time fun. The BC government announced starting on Thursday (March 15) the public will be able to book up to three reservations at one time for their […]

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) held its 14th annual Teddy Waste Awards ceremony last week, giving well-deserved recognition to the worst of the worst in government waste. CTF federal director Gregory Thomas hosted for the first time as Master of Ceremonies at the black tie news conference on Parliament Hill on...

People who forgot to set the clocks ahead one hour Sunday morning and were an hour late for appointments are probably not alone. However, being late is not the only problems associated with a Daylight Savings. An ICBC survey reveals that one-third of B.C. drivers admit to feeling less alert after the time change. According […]

The Canadian Alpine ski community took another hit Saturday. For the second time this year tragic news has stopped the sport in its tracks as one of its own – ski cross racer Nik Zoricic – was killed while racing in Switzerland. Zoricic, 29, died Saturday after crashing during a World Cup event in Grindelwald, […]

Grand Forks resident, Christopher James Cusack, 47, has been charged with two counts of arson endangering life in connection with the fires at the Grand Forks Hotel and the Winnipeg Hotel in the early morning hours of Wednesday, March 7. Within two hours of the fires being reported, Grand Forks RCMP had Cusack in custody and...

Its that time of the year again — time when the public springs forward at 2 a.m. Sunday into Daylight Savings Time. The practice occurs the second Sunday in March. Previously, Canada had observed Daylight Saving Time from the first Sunday in April until the last Sunday in October. However, through legislation passed in 2006, […]