To The Editor: It’s only mid July and Canada is already on track for one of the worst wildfire seasons in history. And, that’s even before we consider the floods, drought and other impacts of the extreme heat we’re seeing this summer. I’m worried not just because climate change is clearly here, but because our government isn’t...

To The Editor: Here in BC, we're packing our emergency kits, checking weather sites, and wondering why things have reached this critical point. Both our Prime Minister and Premier campaigned as climate champions. Yet Canada has not once reached a single Paris Agreement target. Both have subsidized fossil fuels with our tax ...

To The Editor: This Canada Day I will reflect on what factors in my life have led me to be so obtuse about the impact of colonialism on Indigenous People.  I am a 7th generation Canadian, from UK and European ancestry who never had to be torn away from my family to go to school.  In school I learned all about my people and ...

To The Editor: MP Morrison is committed to ensuring protections are in place to ban conversion therapy in Canada and that the law targets coercive practices, and not conversations, as the Justice Department says the bill (C-6) is intended to do.  Conservatives were hoping for a non-partisan environment to work through the...

To The Editor: Just before last fall’s election, the BC NDP released its report on old-growth logging.  They said they were implementing all the panel’s recommendations and that they were protecting hundreds of thousands of hectares of forest. One of the recommendations was immediate deferral of logging old-growth forests. ...

To The Editor: Brittny Anderson, MLA Nelson-Creston Hello Brittny, Belated best wishes on your election as our representative in the British Columbia legislature.  Also congratulations on your appointment as the Premier’s Special Advisor on Youth.  I certainly do not envy you in that position of explaining to the youth of the...

COVID-19 has impacted each of us in many ways. One of the areas that we are monitoring closely is mental health. Mental health affects all of us. As we mark the 70th annual Mental Health Awareness Week I’d like to take this opportunity to recognize the toll that the ongoing pandemic is having on people’s feelings of stress,...

To the Editor: Every weekday a cavalcade of logging trucks pass by my house, sometimes four in a row. Each truckload makes me wonder what mountainside is being denuded for the sake of our gross domestic product, a yardstick that measures destruction of ecosystems as a gain.   What we measure as beneficial is a choice and those...

To The Editor: As the Chair of the Board of Education of School District No. 8 (Kootenay lake), I write to provide clarity from the Board and, hopefully, answer concerns expressed through various media channels. While I certainly don’t want to discount the valid concerns of any Wildflower School parents or stakeholders,...

To The Editor: School District 8 Kootenay Lake does not own the Central school building that houses Wildflower school, or the land that it sits on. A legal document, verified by a Nelson lawyer, and dated June 28, 1902, stipulates that the Province of British Columbia gave The Corporation of the City of Nelson “to have and ...