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, […]

Tuesday night/Wednesday morning was a busy stretch for local police, with a diverse range of ne're-do-wells and miscreants keep the long arm of the law outstretched. Castlegar RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock shared this list of files with The Source:   On March 6, at just after 7 p.m., Castlegar RCMP received a tip of a possible impaired...

By Lena Groeger in ProPublica. Environmentalists have repeatedly pressed regulators to compel oil and gas companies to report what chemicals they use in the drilling and fracking process. According to a 2011 congressional report, many of the chemicals used can pose a serious health risk. No one knows the exact makeup of the...

Young women calling on co-enthusiasts to rip off their clothes for Putin last summer, seemed to have disappeared from the scene after making the headlines for a couple of weeks. As the election season draws to a close in Russia, now, it is worth taking a look back at how that movement evolved, and how it inspired other women...