On Feb. 27, the Selkirk College Board of Governors will vote on whether to once again increase tuition fee rates for the coming academic year. Students are reasonably agitated – the College has increased fees every year for over a decade. From 2008/09 to 2017/18, arts program tuition fees, on which average tuition fees are ...

To The Editor: Students at Selkirk College are calling for tuition fee rates to be frozen for next year. As a full-time student each year I have to pull out more and more student loans even when I have worked full-time throughout the summer. Diving into debt while being enrolled in school is hard enough without constant rising...

To The Editor: This week marks a historic milestone in BC politics and maybe, just maybe, we're on the cusp of another historic milestone. January 24th, exactly 100 years ago, Mary Ellen Smith became the first woman elected to the BC legislature. She went on to have a long career in politics, affecting positive change for...

To The Editor: The Dogwood Initiative, like it’s sister group LeadNow, grew to substantial influence during the Harper and Clark era in large part by consolidating anti-pipeline activism into a political and fundraising force.    After both the Keystone and Northern Gateway appeared to be down for the count, campaigners on ...

To The Editor: City of Nelson management was asked how they get away with raising hydro rates. The reply “because we can”. The BCUC has no jurisdiction, it's up to mayor and council. In 2010 Nelson hydro customers paid .06c/kWh, basic was $10 . . . it's headed for 10.63c and $15.98.  BC Hydro rate is 8c and $11. The city spin...

To The Editor: Some of my resolution for 2018 involves understanding my behavior.  I drive a gas powered vehicle and understand that the exhaust emissions are a form of pollution.  I try to limit the use of that vehicle by planning an “errand day”, when there are a lot of stops, or sidewalks have yet to be cleared. Walking ...

To The Editor: Nelson should be commended for moving to raise its water rates to cover its infrastructure costs. The increase is consistent with the best practices for municipal water pricing identified by Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission. Water infrastructure is essential: it provides us with reliable, clean water and protects...

To The Editor: Dear John Horgan: Without beating around the bush, this is a “Dear John” letter, both literally and figuratively.  I know that we have only been hanging out for the past months, but my relationship with the NDP goes back quite a ways, long before you came on the scene.  Unfortunately, we have come to a place ...

To The Editor: Nearly a quarter of a century ago the Harcourt NDP government ignored their own BC Energy Council consultants, when they, Marbek, found that province-wide energy conservation would create 24,050 Full Time Equivalent jobs over ten to twenty years. Fast forward to 2017 and Minister Mungall and Premier Horgan have...

To The Editor: On Andrew Wilkinson’s advertisement page is a description of three bills to come before the legislature: Rigging the referendum on PR. Changing the election date to give government  six more months in power. Funneling taxpayer money to their political war chest.  Now, I’m quite sure the legislation described ...