Nelson is not an island in the West Kootenay political sea. With municipal and regional district elections raging all across the province on Saturday night, other results from the nearby races filtered in. Close to the Heritage City home, the Regional District of Central Kootenay’s neighbouring areas saw incumbent Area E (Balfour, Harrop, Proctor) director […]

Regional District of Central Kootenay polling station locations: Area D Candidates: Ron Greenlaw, Andy Shadrack JV Humphries School 500 6th St, Kaslo, BC Ainsworth Comm Hall Highway 31, Ainsworth, BC Lardeau Vly Comm Hall Highway 31, Meadow Ck, BC Argenta Comm Hall Argenta Rd, Argenta, BC Regional District Office 202 Lakeside Dr, Nelson, BC   […]

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 […]

 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...

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 ...

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 […]

One hundred and ninety people cast their ballot early on Nov. 8 or 9, as compared to only 151 early voters during the last municipal election in 2008. According to Chief Election Officer Carolyn Rempel, Castlegar has 5,929 registered voters, as well as 13 non-resident, property-owner voters. She said that in the 2008 election, only […]

The B.C. economy is closely tied in with various trade agreements such as NAFTA, the Agreement on International Trade and the New West Partnership Trade Agreement (NWTA) between BC, Alberta and Saskatchewan which replaces the Trade Investment and Labour Mobility Agreement (TILMA). There is concern by those who represent workers that these agreements interfere with […]

School District 20 parents will be receiving blank report cards today, with no marks entered, just attendance records. This, because the district is obligated to send home report cards but teachers are not, within the current job action, required to fill them out. Accompanying the emailed blank report cards is a letter from school district […]