Letters to the Editor

Dear Editor,
I’ve just been reading your story “Only YOU can prevent cancer now” and can support wholeheartedly the mission of the PCN (Prevent Cancer Now) campaigners.
What I find ironical though, and even hypocritical in some instances, is that we often read about campaigns about...

Editor, The Nelson Daily
Below is our response to recent media stories speaking to the safety and reliability of services to Trail versus Castlegar airports.
The primary focus of the stories was on recently released data showing the Trail service being more reliable than the service in Castlegar.
The higher reliability of the Trail service is due to two...

Dear editor,
Road maintenance in our area has deteriorated drastically over the last few years.
During the first 10 years of privatization of highways maintenance the system worked fine. The Ministry required the contractors to maintain the same number of employees, equipment and yards that the M.O.H. previously had.
The Ministry had full time inspectors making sure...

BC Nurses’ Union members continue to be concerned about the closure of the Castlegar Emergency services on February 4. We want the community of Castlegar to know that our priority is to provide quality and safe patient care. The nurses at Castlegar Hospital will continue to advocate for improvements so that high quality care will be there for you.
The Castlegar emergency nurses...

Editor, The Nelson Daily
On January 6, 2012, the Health Employers Association of BC suddenly announced a unilateral 9%-14% wage rollback for B.C.’s hospital pharmacists.
The wage rollback is certain to aggravate an ongoing staffing shortage in
BC’s hospital pharmacies, putting all British Columbians at risk.
For years, hospitals across BC have been...

February 13, 2012
Ottawa, ON
The Honourable Diane Finley, P.C., M.P.
Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development
Room 707 Confederation Building
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Dear Minister Finley,
Enclosed please find two letters from constituents which represent the feedback my office has been receiving since the Prime...

An open letter to the community of Castlegar;
Interior Health would like to apologize to the residents of Castlegar and area for not properly informing you of the temporary closure of the emergency department last Saturday.
Interior Health has contingency plans in place when facing a service interruption like this, which includes notifying community officials, the public, and the...

Editor, The Nelson Daily
Do we accept Stephen Harper’s “new Canadian patriotism”?
We in the Kootenays, with pacificist traditions from Quakers, Doukhobors, and Viet Nam war resisters, surely must be alerted by a Prime Minister with a vision of Canada standing tall with military muscle beside imperial nations like America and Britain.
I fear that maybe...

Letter to the Editor:
Last Thursday, four of the Lions executive waited for our turn to visit the Chamber of Commerce board meeting. In the closed meeting of the chamber board, a discussion of how to proceed with the eviction of the Lions Club.
For 41 years, the Castlegar-Selkirk Lions have been involved in Castlegar. Shopping locally, giving funds back to the community....
The best way to explain my issue would be in chronological order but would require a longer article to accomplish.
A condensed version, in this case, is applicable.
On December 30th at 3:50 p.m., our vehicle was caught in a collision with what best described was a pothole.
The pothole measured 48 inches long by 20 inches wide and was 7-1/2 to 8-1/2 inches deep....