The Conservatives are hiding from opposition scrutiny by invoking closure to limit the Justice Committee’s debate on the government’s controversial omnibus crime bill, C-10, cccording to Alex Atamanenko, MP for BC Southern Interior. “This is just the latest of seven examples this session where Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have moved to bypass parliamentary work and prevent […]

The Kootenay / Boundary region woke to the impact of a magnitude 4.6 earthquake in the early hours this Friday morning. The earthquake’s epicenter was just outside of Omak, Washington at 5:09 a.m., the second in a week according to the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The earthquake that took place last week in the same […]

The Province will fund a new Habitat for Humanity project in Grand Forks that will provide seven affordable homes for men with developmental disabilities. The provincial contribution of $242,016 was made available through the January 2011 sale of Hardy View Lodge, a vacant building that was owned by the Province. Habitat for Humanity will use […]

One day before Nelsonites head to the polls in the 2011 Municipal Election there is good and some bad news on how previous councils have managed taxpayer’s money in the last decade. A recent report released from the Canadian Federation of Independent Business ranked the City in the top 15 out of 153 communities in […]

 Castlegar earned top marks for municipal spending practices, according to a recently-released report by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business.  The report, B.C. Municipal Spending Watch report for 2000-2009, ranks all B.C. communities from worst to best in spending, number one being the worst and 153 being the best....

  BC Southern Interior Conservative Association will be hosting Charles Lammam, Senior Policy Analyst at the Fraser Institute, as a guest speaker at the Fireside Inn on Nov. 23 from 7 to 9 p.m.  Everyone is welcome and admission is by donation.Lammam will be speaking on “the fork in the road” that Canada faces.  That is, we...

Christina Lake resident Allen Piche is facing another court date for feeding wildlife as the Crown landed new charges in his lap this week.  Piche, who made international headlines last year when up to 24 bears were discovered on his property during a marijuana grow operation bust, confessed to feeding wildlife when charged last fall. […]

Barack Obama has nothing on the BC Liberals when it comes to campaign spending, according to an estimate released today by IntegrityBC.  Relying on US Federal Election Commission (FEC) figures, IntegrityBC estimates that the 2008 Obama campaign cost $5.10 per registered voter compared to the $5.54 per voter spent by the BC ...

Selkirk College Peace Studies students will be putting on a display called ‘An Alternative Timeline of History’, at Selkirk College Castlegar Campus in The Pit on Nov 29th from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. This over 100 foot display of photos, exhibits and captions provides a timeline of history over the last thousand years.What makes...

Founder and Executive Director of War Child Canada, Samantha Nutt is a medical doctor with more than 15 years of experience working in war zones. She has helped children in some of the world’s most violent flashpoints, working with War Child Canada, the United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Darfur, Iraq, Afghanistan, The Democratic […]