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This little tid-bit reads like just another anti Harper, Liberal tirade.   Maybe it will go better for your little group in the next election.   In the mean time, take an asprin and call someone in the morning.

Go to http://www.facebook.com/powdermag?v=app_153839431317646&rest=1 to vote for Rossland/Nelson. Vote every 24 hours - this time the contest goes for 6 days. Get everyone to vote! This one's a matter of national ski pride!

I think we have more than enough freeloaders in government now maybe we should vote in children, we have spoiled children now, could it be any worse? And to think these so called responsible dunces are representing Canada.

The Royal Hotel is a business. They should have looked at it as such. Sorry, but that's a fact.
It would have been wise of them to bring in other partners, or maybe even made the community a partner.
Running the Royal as a bar will work. There's lots of folks out there still  drinking. But it really is not big enough to operate as a showroom or club. To attract the right sort of players, you need seats so you can keep the costs down.
The boys would have been better off to purchase an old church or one of the club halls.
Nelson needs and deserves a good large venue where people can dance and relax. The Capital, and the Civic Theatre are decent venues, but that can't accomodate the real high energy touring acts.
I think it needs to come from the community as a whole though, unless there's a mulit millionaire around who doesn't mind not making a return for a few years.

PS: I get the part about selling alcohol. Basically, it makes you a drug dealer! Alcohol is a bad, bad drug, and selling it requires a certain degree of disapated conscience.

may have contributed to the decision-making.  Shame.

Reading this article by Alex Atamanenko should give all peaceminded people encouragement. If enough of us want to see our country focus on a peace keeping mandate rather than a waring mandate, just like in Costa Rica we can make it happen. Let's get behind Bill 373 and support the work of Alex and his NDP collegues in promoting the proposal for a Department of Peace in our Canadian Parliament. Anyone wanting to sign a petition or get others to sign please contact Barry Nelson at bandw1@telus.net or 250-352-2704 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 250-352-2704 FREE  end_of_the_skype_highlighting and I can send you a petition that has already been vetted by the government that Alex will be able to present in parliament.

We have such a strong history as peace keepers and there are many leaders still working on promoting a culture of peace in our country. Therefore we already have people ready to support such a ministry in our government.

Forget Nietzsche, Charles, a chat with Rousseau may recharge your political batteries.

"The legislative power is the heart of the State, the executive power is its brain, which gives movement to all parts. The brain can fall into paralysis and the individual still lives. A man remains an imbecile and lives; but as soon as the heart has ceased its functions, the animal is dead." (Of the Social Contract, Book 3, [261]).

All our governments - they are neither conservative nor liberal, they all suffer from progressive authoritarianism -  the brain rules. Their brains are on a course that will eventually kill the heart. They may well succeed, and when they do, historians will be writing about western politics of the 21st century by referring to the "American Spring" or the "Western Spring" or some such spring as we refer to the Arab Spring.

You need not be elected to be engaged in politics, you can write. So keep writing.

Why not add a Minister of Mediation e.g Mediator General of Canada?

Re: thumbs. There appears to be some childishness going on here.

The Nelson Police need to get after drivers who crowd crosswalks while pedestrians are in them, or make quick right hand turns trying to beat pedestrians when the light goes green.
I've nearly been hit a few times, and have seen it happen to others. There's no way a car should go anywhere near a cross walk when pedestrians are in it. And there is definitely no way drivers should be in such an all fired hurry they have to try to beat pedestrians through a cross walk.
Slow down, wait until the path is clear. In BC, if you see someone on a corner preparing to cross, you're supposed to give them the right away.

As for the Pedestrians. Get off the d%$ned phone!

Good luck having an adult conversaton with the current regimes in Ottawa and Victoria about anything!