By Michael Jessen Think your commute from Balfour, Castlegar, Nelson, Slocan Valley or Ymir is a drag?  Just be glad you don’t live in Chicago or Washington, DC. Residents living beyond Longbeach on the North Shore got a taste of what can happen when a highway is shut down, but commuters in the West Kootenay […]

By Roscoe Triana Canada Post announced a decision in the summer of 2010 that they would look into rerouting all Friday mail sent from the Kootenay area in British Columbia to Vancouver for sorting prior to being delivered to the final destination. Canada Post stating that the change “would not impact customers or jobs in […]

I have always been an advocate of progress.  I suspect this is largely due to my upbringing – raised in small-town Alberta, I was baffled by people who decried the loss of small communities and the lifestyle they entail.  The town I was raised in was hugely Conservative …while I lean so far to the left, it’s a wonder I don’t...

Just back from the Vancouver Sun live chat with Kevin Falcon, in which every question I submitted was given to Falcon except the last, because time ran out. So, what can you expect from Kevin Falcon if he were to be the leader of the Liberals, or worse yet–shudder–premier? He will continue to use and promote P3 projects […]

Few developments in our era of savage capitalism are so powerfully symbolic of the new feudalism than the obscene compensation paid out to the new economic elite: the CEOs of the most powerful corporations in the country. The CCPA’s Hugh MacKenzie now reminds us yearly of this economic and social sickness by identifying exactly when […]

The dictator, thief and Western client Zein al-Abdine Ben Ali, beloved until a few hours ago in Paris and Washington, has been driven from Tunisia. His reign was ended not by a military or palace coup but by an extraordinarily broad-based popular movement which has brought together trades unions and professional associations, students and schoolchildren, […]

 “The economy is a subsidiary of the ecosystem…The only place where the environment and economy are separated is in the human mind.” – Dr. William Rees, UBC Professor, Founder of the ‘Eco-footprint’ concept Perhaps the most foolish and dangerous misconception of our time is that we must somehow choose between the economy and the environment. […]

By Marian Wang in ProPublica. The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and more than a dozen of her constituents in Tucson this weekend has sparked criticism of Arizona’s lax gun control laws and renewed calls from some to tighten those restrictions. Six individuals were confirmed dead. Here’s our attempt to briefly break down a few […]

A new year has come, but lingering disputes between communities at the SD20 school board table remain. This past Monday, the board held its first meeting of the year following a tumultuous and at-times heated final month of 2010 and, although it was clear dramatically differing opinions based around the Planning for the Future document […]

By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Several storylines will intertwine this week as the Sinixt Nation appears in Vancouver’s Supreme Court to argue its inherent right to protect the forests and drinking water quality along Perry Ridge. The Sinixt are contending the Crown failed to do its duty to consult the Sinixt in the course […]