Dear Parents: It is February, and the strike action taken by members of the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) throughout the Province of British Columbia is still continuing. This is the sixth month of their action, and this marks a year of collective bargaining. At this point, teachers are still in Phase One of ...

Dear Prime Minister: We are deeply concerned that your government has already determined the outcome of the controversial Enbridge pipelines proposal even before the panel responsible for assessing its impacts has commenced its hearings. This, in our opinion, has the real potential to completely undermine the independence and...

To the Editor, What did the Occupiers accomplish, and how has the Occupation changed Nelson and local politics?The Oct. 15 march was a one-off, a great occasion for our local vocal middle class liberals and progressives to replay their radically-youthful politics from the 1960's and '70's. After that day, the real significance...

To the Editor:This letter is addressed first to the two soldiers of Canada who’ve served in Afghanistan and spoke to me at my one-man protest  Remembrance Day. I want to thank them for the conversation and say why I half-agreed with their request, to the extent that I moved a half-block away. To readers, civilians like myself:...

Dear Editor,The BC Liberals' attempts to silence the growing Smart Meter controversy have failed at the Union of BC Municipalities convention with delegates voting for a province-wide moratorium. Could the heavy-handed, dictatorial edicts of Rich Coleman and the Liberals have actually prompted this clear vote for democracy,...

Hearing that NDP leader Jack Layton passed away (Monday) morning has struck me with a level of unexplainable sadness.I first met Jack when he stepped forward to run for leader of the national New Democratic Party. I was 23-years-old, and inspired by his energy, positive message, his creative thinking and get-to-it attitude....

To the Editor:Over the past five months the Executive of the Trafalgar Middle School Parent Advisory Council (PAC) felt that School District #8 has been on a destructive path, both in terms of how it was working with parents and its use of flawed criteria for selecting which students would be denied an educational opportunity...

To the Editor: It has been brought to my attention that gas prices have fallen 17 cents in the past three weeks, but not in Nelson. It has been reported by people at the "Mall" that seniors are tired of paying through the nose for gasoline in Nelson, when all other surrounding cities have much cheaper gas prices. Therefore ...

Dear Editor: It is with interest that I read the comments of Minister Lynne Yelich in regard to my statement on the budget.  Rather than reiterate what I had originally said, I would like to make a few other comments.  It is certainly reassuring that Western Diversification will continue to provide effective programs.  However,...

To the Editor: We, the undersigned write to express our shock and revulsion following your publication on June 1st of an abhorrent caricature by notorious anti-Semitic cartoonist, Carlos Latuff. While we favour a broad marketplace of ideas, those which contribute to hatred against the Jewish people have no place in a publication...