Time to stand up for striking workers: Atamanenko
Anyone who truly believes in democratic principles should be outraged the federal government’s response to Air Canada’s employee strike action is to threaten back to work legislation, said the West Kootenay’s MP. BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko said the government’s action will criminalize the employee’s job action. “This is an unprecedented assault on labour […]
Province's insurance brokers name Nelson’s Poulin as new president
Maurice Poulin, BA CAIB of Poulin Agencies Ltd. in Nelson was sworn in as the 2011-12 president of the Insurance Brokers Association of B.C. (IBABC) at the annual general meeting held in Burnaby last month. Despite being the third-generation owner of Poulin Agencies Ltd., Poulin did not originally intend to pursue a career in the […]
Nelson Kootenay Lake, communities get funding boost for tourism
Nelson Kootenay Lake will share in $127,100 in total funding for Kootenay Rockies communities as the Province doled out grants from its Community Tourism Opportunities (CTO) program Wednesday. Along with Nelson, Castlegar, Cranbrook, Creston, Elkford, Fernie, Golden, Invermere, Kaslo, Kimberley, Nakusp, Radium Hot Springs, Revelstoke, Rossland, Sparwood and Trail will share in the cash. The […]
OP/ED: MP back to work
Now that the election frenzy has died down, life is getting back to normal. I would like to congratulate all MPs who were re-elected and also to welcome our new MPs. In particular, I would like to congratulate the two new MPs in neighbouring ridings: David Wilks in Kootenay-Columbia and Dan Albas in Okanagan-Coquihalla. The...
LETTER: Minister of State responds to Atamanenko's commentary on federal budget
Dear Editor; Your story “Budget fails to make life more affordable for Canadian families: Atamanenko” is misleading. As Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), I would like to correct MP Atamanenko’s statements and set the record straight. Our Government is committed to strengthening the Canadian economy and promoting economic development. Measures […]
A green web of intrigue builds in the Columbia Basin
The spider of ingenuity and necessity has spun a green web of information and resources in the West Kootenay in the pursuit of the sustainability bug, pulling together some of the disparate and far flung legs of the movement. Called the CB Green web directory (http://www.cbgreen.ca/), it is a listing of organizations and businesses in […]
West Kootenay/Boundary blues: charting the terrible tarmacs of the Kootenay
This is debatable. One of the province’s major auto insurance companies has released its top 30 worst roads in the province and only one West Kootenay strip of pavement has made the cut. BCAA’s public polling of the province’s 20 worst roads has named the chunk of road from Balfour to Kaslo and over to […]
Successful rescue of man from ‘extreme current’ in Kokanee Creek
A day of pleasant hiking turned into a dangerous dip and brush with the powerful forces of nature as a man went into the meltwater swollen waters of Kokanee Creek on Sunday and almost did not return. A 45-year-old Nelson man had jumped into Kokanee Creek from the Old Growth Hiking Trail — in Kokanee […]
Stanley Cup is going to a Game Seven after Bruins blast Canucks
By Bruce FuhrThe Nelson Daily Sports In a hockey game that’s 60 minutes long, it took the Boston Bruins 4:14 to send the Stanley Cup Final to a seventh game. Goals by Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic, Andrew Ference and Michael Ryder early in the first period sparked the Bruins to a 5-2 victory Monday at […]
Smugglers arrested with 159 pounds of ecstasy tablets
A drug smuggling attempt failed when United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents seized five backpacks with 159 pounds of ecstasy at the Washington state border near Christina Lake last Friday. CBP Public Information Officer James Frackleton explained that the seizure was a result of good coordinated tactical planning and utilization of advanced detection […]
