To The Editor: Our children and grandchildren. We care for them, lose sleep over them, and provide them with food, shelter and so much love. Why then is it so hard for us to consider their future and ensure that they have one in which they will thrive? We know that the fossil fuel industry spends tremendous sums of money...

To The Editor: I will confess that for big projects, I think flow charts are a useful graphic to map the path from start to completion. In the context of the December 20, 2019 news release from Environment and Climate Change Canada, I noticed part of their statement: … “Canada will develop a plan to achieve net-zero emissions...

To The Editor: Scientists know that First Nations people have lived in what is now Canada for at least 12,000 years. Europeans arrived about 500 years ago and colonized the land. At first, Indigenous people were treated as allies. As more and more settlers arrived from Europe and the demand for land increased, administrators...

To The Editor: At the end of the month-long Alzheimer’s Awareness Month campaign “I live with dementia. Let me help you understand,” the Alzheimer Society of B.C. thanks the people of Nelson and the rest of the West Kootenay region for the role they have played in challenging the stigma that surrounds dementia. It is important...

In support of the January 25th Global Day of Action calling for No War on Iran, approximately 80 people who gathered at Castlegar United Church urged all Federal party leaders to work to avoid a catastrophic war.  They wrote: Whereas the USA may launch a war on Iran; Whereas such a war will involve Canada; Whereas such a war...

To The Editor: A mindboggling 292 square kilometer open pit mine in norther Albertais quietly working its way through the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s approval process. This behemoth relies on relentless growth in oil demand at a time of growing climate instability.   Frontier would pump out an annual 4.1...

To The Editor: I read the submitted article (published Tuesday, December 31, 2019) on the online (The Nelson Daily) site from the Nature Conservancy of Canada suggesting to leave Christmas trees in backyards to slowly decay. While I do support the spirit of the article to provide increased habitat for bird populations and...

To The Editor: Last month, more than 11,000 scientists from around the world declared that our earth is facing a climate emergency. This news isn’t exactly new - alarming climate change trends have been noted by world scientists for over 40 years. Yet greenhouse gas emissions are still rapidly rising, with increasingly damaging...

To The Editor: As a candidate for the Green Party in the recent federal election I had the privilege of spending time in communities across the Kootenay Columbia Electoral District over the course of my campaign. What is striking and what we have in common across each of our communities is the incredible beauty of this region...

To The Editor: Civil Rights lawyer Gary Haugen is concerned with the human capacity for compassion. He says of the genocide in Rwanda, that it was one of the world’s greatest failures of simple compassion. Today we are faced with another call for compassion. (Recently) The Lancet, a prestigious medical journal published its...