As most of us know the City budget is very complex and takes considerable time to put together. Weighing out what to fund and what not to fund or somewhere in between can be very stressful for those directly involved. My experience has been that decisions made by our elected officials are done with the best intentions using...

To The Editor: Studies show that on average, "for profit" senior facilities in comparison to "non-profit" and publicly owned, provide the worst quality of care. Why? The answer is contained within a report published by the journal PLOS Medicine, due to concern over combining the care of seniors with profit. For profit facilities...

I wish to express my heartfelt appreciation and gratitude to Erica (Gregory), the pharmacy manager and Brian (Bogle), the store manager, of our local Safeway in Castlegar for going above and beyond expectations. Due to human error, a component of my medication, which is vital to my well being and life, was not delivered to ...

So, what is everyone's honest opinion of Castlegar's new garbage bins and method of collection? I rent, so I don't even have my bin as of yet and garbage collection is this coming Wednesday. My landlords have requested one. I don't have anywhere to keep my garbage. If I put my old garbage can on the front patio, it is available...

The Nanaimo and Capital Regional Districts and several First Nation funders are unhappy with the lack of progress made by the Island Corridor Foundation to re-instate rail service between Victoria and Courtenay with a branch line to Port Alberni.   Rail service was historically developed for moving coal, lumber and passengers....

To The Editor: We as Canadians need to protect our water and corporations must stop pumping it up for free so they can make a profit. It is a valuable resource and should be respected. Without clean water humans are in trouble. It is about time the government stood up and took notice by creating laws to protect our precious...

To The Editor: I live in the Kootenay region of B.C. and have recently become aware of a company that is bottling and selling the water from our mountain streams to overseas markets. Treating water as a commody is immoral especially when our area suffered water shortages last year. We must have some laws that not only protect...

“Your Donation Boomerangs Back To You” – what does that mean? We don’t have a hospital anymore! We did before! This was overheard being said in frustration by a person as they passed the elevator in the Castlegar & District Community Health Centre. I assume that this person was on their way to get bloodwork done, or an ...

To The Editor:   Nelson residents should be concerned that, by lobbying our leaders in support of the idea that our carbon dioxide emissions are causing dangerous climate change, groups like Citizens’ Climate Lobby (CCL) are unwittingly helping prop up one of the most tragic circumstances ever.   Debate rages in the scientific...

To The Editor: Dear Erwin Malzer: This is to register my strongest objection to your crass and anti-social decision to kill 29 jobs in Nelson and something like 70 other family supporting jobs by centralizing and PRIVATIZING this service. What can you be thinking? Once again we are exposed to the kind of efficiency-at-any-cost...