This time, Local Governments talk to Feds on future of Columbia River Treaty
Local government representatives Mayor Deb Kozak and Mayor Karen Hamling met with Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Pamela Goldsmith-Jones, federal officials and regional MPs in late November to emphasize the importance of working with local governments in the Columbia Basin before reaching decisions...
Save Money, Reduce Pollution? Ride-Share!
The Kootenay Rideshare website, hosted by the West Kootenay EcoSociety, will be re-launched with new features on November 29. The new website address is: https://kootenay.ride-share.org/ The Kootenay Rideshare website is free for users and has helped over 15,000 people carpool, creating community connections, and reducing...
Can Medical Marijuana Aid Recovery From Alcoholism and Drug Addiction?
A new study from UBC suggests that marijuana, long feared by some as a "gateway" to drug abuse generally, may be able to act as a gateway in the other direction: it could have a medical use in helping people recover from alcoholism and opioid addiction. But more research is needed. “Research suggests that people may be...
LETTER: 'When they go low, we go high'
There’s been a flood of posts recently contrasting a naked or near-naked Melania Trump with Michelle Obama looking elegant. Alt-right criticism of Michelle, almost without exception, is abhorrent and racist. But is unfair criticism of one woman *in any way* addressed by inviting ridicule and mockery of another? Michelle is extraordinary. She would be a […]
A Letter to Trudeau From Young Researchers
More than 1500 early-career researchers in Canada and Canadian researchers abroad are sending an open letter to the Prime Minister and six Cabinet Ministers, calling for scientific rigour and transparency in Canada’s environmental and regulatory decision-making. “As the next generation of scientists in Canada, we are...
'Initiative Petition Application' underway, to change paramedics' bargaining rights
British Columbia’s Chief Electoral Officer, Keith Archer, has granted approval in principle on an initiative petition application. The petition will be issued to proponent Joshua Henshaw on Monday, January 9, 2017. The title of the initiative is: An initiative to amend the Fire and Police Services Collective Bargaining Act....
RCMP warn about more phone scams
Don’t be fooled. Don’t give out any information on the phone to anyone who calls up and claims to represent your credit card company. Anyone from your credit card compoany does NOT need you to give them any information about you or your card; they would already have what they need on file. Anyone who […]
Quality of Care in Seniors' Facilities
Many Rosslanders recall the unfortunate separation of a devoted senior couple so that they could more conveniently (for IHA) be housed in different facilities, in different towns. While separated, one of the couple died. The resulting, and well-justified, outcry may have resulted in changes to the practice of deciding which...
COLUMN: From the Hill -- Site C and Treaty 8
On February 18th of this year a group of First Nations activists came to Ottawa to speak to the government about the Site C dam project on the Peace River. They met with myself and other MPs in the BC NDP caucus to discuss their attempts to delay construction of the dam until the concerns of their people were heard in federal...
COURT CHALLENGE FILED AGAINST BILL C-14
A legal challenge to the constitutional validity of Bill C-14 has been filed. In a unanimous decision last year, Canada's highest court declared that the Criminal Code provisions against physician-assisted dying "are of no force or effect to the extent that they prohibit physician-assisted death for a competent adult...
