To The Editor: Dear Nelson: I love your city.  My wife and two kids have been visiting Nelson for the past six years.  We come up every summer from Los Angeles to enjoy your truly one-of-a-kind town.  We love swimming in Kootenay Lake, floating down the Slocan River, eating out on Baker Street, morning coffee at Oso Negro, ...

To The Editor: Thank you Nelson! The LV Rogers 50th anniversary reunion for the classes of 67 and 68 was a huge success, and the organizing committee would like to give a big shout out to our wonderful home town. We had over 190 people show up and we built our schedule so they would have lots of time to look around town, try...

To The Editor: Before we paint Michelle Mungall as the Scott Pruit of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, we need some context.  If we recall from our Grade 8 Science, all things are connected (the web). Although government portfolios are organized as specialized compartments for administrative convenience, there still...

With all the political posturing around climate change, we have in effect global acknowledgement that human accelerated climate change is real.  Now comes the painful process, for us all, as governments and lobby groups put their spin on the reality to fit their own political agenda that might cause delays in positive action. ...

To The Editor: Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Accord has motivated many elected officials in the US, to “redoubling their climate efforts” states the former mayor of NYC.  “Cities, states and corporations could achieve, or surpass, the pledge of the former administration”. This growing list, which includes 30 mayors, three...

To The Editor: Most of us don’t realize how valuable our car keys are until we lose them. With remote starters and built-in unlock systems, keys are not as simple or cheap as they used to be, with many owners paying hundreds of dollars in replacement fees.    But for more than 70 years, The War Amps Key Tag Service has been...

To The Editor: If Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and Prime Minister Trudeau think that they can dictate to British Columbians on the basis of whose economy and environment is more important, then they need to think again. We have an important sport and commercial salmon fishery, and a coastline that is the envy of every tourism...

 To The Editor: I looked at TD Bank's promo page on the internet - "Enriching Lives, Environmental Leader, Strengthening Communities".   What they did notmention is that they are underwriting one of the largest environmentalcarbon bombs Canada could be involved with. Kinder Morgan are about toissue shares this week to fund ...

To The Editor: Open letter to Liberal Members of Parliament May 31st is a very important day for me. I will be watching closely to see how you vote on electoral reform.  Two years ago, Trudeau eloquently announced "We are committed to ensuring that 2015 will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post...

To The Editor: The election “results” are not yet final, but  there is a lot to learn from the process. Strong Liberal support in the past has weakened. “Green” has expanded substantially. Not a lot of change with the NDP, but significant.    Issues of housing affordability;  infrastructure – hospitals, schools; climate change...