Russian scholars call on Medvedev and Putin to defend Bhagavad Gita
Twenty leading Russian scholars urged Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister, President-elect Vladimir Putin to step in and take the ongoing Bhagavad Gita trial in the Siberian city of Tomsk under "personal control", saying it "discredits Russia's cultural and democratic credentials in the eyes of the civilized...
Two Burmese Refugees To Settle in Nelson
The Nelson Refugee Committee is bringing two young Burmese women to Nelson to start a new life. The women, cousins both in their 20s, belong to the Karen ethnic indigenous group that has been persecuted and harassed by Burma’s military government for decades. “They have spent their lives behind barbed wire in a refugee camp...
Membership to decide next step for Kootenay Co-op Monday at Best Western Baker Street Inn special general meeting
Kootenay Co-op members have an opportunity voice their opinion over the purchase of the Extra Foods building during a special general meeting Monday at the Best Western Baker Street Inn. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. “The meeting is to get approval from the membership for the Co-op to spend more than 75 per cent of the cash ...
Special Public Avalanche Warning for BC’s Interior Mountains: Third warning in four weeks for recreational backcountry users
For the third time in four weeks, the Canadian Avalanche Centre (CAC) is issuing a Special Public Avalanche Warning for recreational backcountry users. The warning area includes all the mountains of interior BC—from Mackenzie and Chetwynd south to the US boundary, and west of the Alberta border to Pemberton and Hope. Not...
Yves Engler to speak in the West Kootenay about Canada's peacekeeping tradition
Lone Sheep Publishing is proud to present Yves Engler, author of The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy and Canada and Israel: Building Apartheid. In his new book, The Truth May Hurt, Engler strips away the layers of former Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson’s past, exposing him as less of a Canadian peacekeeper and ...
Kettle River drops lower on endangered rivers list
The Kettle River remains high on B.C.'s endangered rivers list at number four as a remote wilderness landscape widely known as “the Sacred Headwaters”, and the Kokish River on Vancouver Island have jointly topped British Columbia’s most endangered rivers list for 2012. The Kettle has topped the list, developed by the Outdoor...
Kony video incites anger among some Ugandans
Anyone following online citizen media closely this month, would inevitably have come across the heated global debate over the Invisible Children viral campaign to stop Ugandan war criminal and rebel army leader Joseph Kony. While the Kony 2012 campaign certainly received the attention it sought, many Ugandans and Africans...
How to win Facebook friends and influence people
By Lois Beckett in ProPublica. Instead of picketing outside company headquarters, an advocacy group is using Facebook ads to try to influence people whose profiles identify them as employees of Freddie Mac or JPMorgan Chase. The anti-foreclosure ad campaign, which launches today, asks Freddie and Chase employees to talk to ...
Mir Centre For Peace And Allan Markin Present Karen Armstrong: Twelve Steps To A Compassionate Life
A former Catholic nun who first gained the spotlight with her 1993 book A History of God: The 4,000-year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Karen Armstrong is now an author of 20 books that focus largely on commonalities of major religions – including the nearly universally but often-ignored principle of compassion....
Two poets read at the Nelson Library — and in Council chambers, too
Nelson celebrates National Poetry Month with two special events in early April. One is at the Nelson Public Library on Thursday, April 5. The other? Let's try City Council chambers. The City of Regina has challenged the City of Nelson — and communities across Canada — to embrace National Poetry Month by inviting a poet to...
