To The Editor: Not quite a New Year’s resolution, but being old has allowed me to reflect on how unchanging technology used to be until it changed.  Now those changes are happening so frequently that we can be caught thinking we are up to date.  Recognizing your information might be old must be accompanied by a willingness ...

To The Editor: I have some concerns about the recent hype and media coverage from West Kootenay EcoSociety "100% Renewable Energy Plan", that is being brought by the NGO before a number of local municipalities for adoption. In the next decade the BC NDP Ministry of Forest plans to clear-cut and truck at least 100,000 loads ...

The Canadian Taxpayers Federation has released its New Years Taxpayers Resolutions for 2021, urging the government to lower taxes and strictly monitor spending. “Lower taxes, less waste and more accountable government would help all British Columbians prosper better in the New Year,” said Kris Sims British Columbia director...

The year 2020 has been unlike any other. It has been very challenging for many, but we have also seen so much strength and resilience, with neighbours stepping up to help each other and organizations working together to support people in need.   Representing the people of Nelson-Creston as their MLA is an honour, but the...

A year ago, there was much anticipation in the conservation community that 2020 would perhaps be the most important year ever for nature. Canada’s Nature Fund promised to accelerate the conservation of our wild spaces and species. There was a buzz about the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s World Congress. The...

To The Editor. Somebody needs to explain just how (BC Premier John) Horgan possibly can justify taking our hard-earned tax dollars and give it to families with annual incomes up to 175,000 dollars, and individuals earning up to 67,500 dollars, insisting they desperately need ‘emergency funding’. There is no doubt a lot of...

To The Editor: While 2020 will undoubtedly be remembered by most for the COVID-19 pandemic, a young couple from Castlegar, Brett and Kendra (Wayling) Uniat, will remember it for the birth of their amazing daughter Zoey, born on October 12, Thanksgiving Day.  Zoey is now nine weeks old and last week was diagnosed with a rare...

To The Editor: A very big thank you and warm energetic support to the hardworking Postal Workers at the Vernon Street branch (in Nelson). The line goes down the block and the wait to mail out this morning was one hour, but luckily, I was dressed warmly and had brought a book with me. They were working efficiently and as quickly...

“Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.” – Robert Fulghum In 1790, Irish statesman and philosopher Edmund Burke wrote that society is “a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.” In ...

To The Editor: How to occupy your time during a shutdown is something with which we are all having to deal.  In this digital age it is so much easier to have access to and indeed create content  and have it posted on the internet.  As consumers it is important to be able to sort that content in to the good, bad and ugly. ...