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...

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has been researching and writing about the history and politics of water in the upper Columbia Basin since 2005.  Her book on the Columbia River Treaty, A River Captured, was released in 2016. Pearkes has agreed to help readers of The Nelson Daily understand the importance of the Columbia...

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” – John Lennon The Beatles were a huge part of my musical life as a teenager; my paper route earnings were immediately destined to the purchase of the group’s latest LP – records which I still have and play occasionally. My favourite Beatle was always ...

The discovery of over a thousand unmarked graves at residential schools across Canada, including many right here in B.C., has been a wake-up call.  I feel saddened, enraged, disappointed, heartbroken, and much more. But I also know that the emotions non-Indigenous people like myself are feeling right now are just a fraction of...

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 ...

Some job creation can be expected when BC moves to the next stage of reopening the economy in July, but labour market data show that in order to have an inclusive recovery significant inequities must be addressed, a new report released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office warns. In fact, the deeply...

Earlier this month, as public pressure mounted in Fairy Creek, across the province, and right here in the West Kootenays, the BC NDP Government finally honoured the request of the Pacheedaht, Ditidaht, and Huu-ay-aht First Nations, and deferreding (temporarily stopped) old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed and central...

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 ...

People in the Kootenays and across British Columbia have been raising their voices and expressing their concerns about old growth forests. It is both my duty and my pleasure to bring those voices to Victoria. I wish I could meet with each and every one of you in-person to talk about these and other pressing issues in our...

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...