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...
SNOWPACK TRENDS AND WATER SUPPLIES
Last year our area had deeper snow in the hills, to the delight of skiers and others who play in the snow. In March, our snowpack was 7% above the historical "normal" level. And yet, it melted away very quickly in the warm spring; just one month later, our snowpack was only 69% of normal for that time. So far we've been ...
TIME CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS BEGINNING
Tired of afternoons as dark as night in the fall, after the onset of Standard Time? Weary of having to force your body to adjust to a new time regime twice a year? There's hope on the horizon: the BC Chamber of Commerce passed a resolution at its AGM on May 31 to ask the BC government to work with other provincial and state...
Column: From the Hill -- Bill C-14 and Access to Medically Assisted Dying
By Member Of Pariliament for South Okanagan- West Kootenay, Richard Cannings: Bill C-14, An Act to amend the Criminal Code and to make related amendments to other Acts (medical assistance in dying) In March I wrote in this column about the ongoing debates in Parliament around medical aid in dying, brought on by the Supreme...
Todd Shymko's Story, in His Own Words
My name is Todd Shymko. I’m 37 years old and have been snowboarding for over 25 years. I’m fit, active and have spent a reasonable amount of time in the outdoors since childhood, hiking, camping and snowshoeing. This is my story of mistakes I made, and the results of those mistakes, and how Rossland Search […]
