Op/Ed: Healthy watersheds support resilient communities
The fear of losing clean drinking water hits close to home for many residents here in the Kootenays. For some, it’s been a reality. Nature-based planning provides a solution. In 2019, a BC Supreme Court judge said the community of Glade doesn’t have a right to clean drinking water. This, after years of trying every legal...
Letter: Kootenay-Columbia MP mail out short sighted rhetoric
To The Editor: The recent mail out by Kootenay-Columbia Conservative MP, Rob Morrison reeks of right wing short sighted rhetoric. Appointed to O’Toole’s “shadow cabinet” for National Security, Morrison’s long winded propaganda flyer nowhere mentions the effects of environmental degradation on Canada’s national security....
Letter: Please pay attention, Canada
To The Editor: Top international lawyers to draft definition of "Ecocide" 75 years after Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide coined at Nuremberg. It’s an extraordinary moment to be launching this project as the first international trials are remembered at Nuremberg. 75 years on, humanity faces a new and global threat: climate...
Op/Ed: Saving BC’s Forgotten Rainforest
It started as an expedition to track down the elusive mountain caribou. David Moskowitz - renowned photographer, writer and wildlife tracker - had never encountered caribou in the wild, and set off to look for them in the Inland Temperate Rainforest (ITR). While he did end up spotting a few of the elusive caribou, what he...
Letter: MP’s Fall Newsletter Disappointing and Concerning
Rob Morrison’s Fall 2020 Newsletter is both disappointing and concerning. Disappointing because it’s been over a year since the 2019 Federal election and this is only the second time we’ve heard from our MP. I say only the second time because Canada’s House of Commons encourages regular communication between MPs and their...
Op/Ed: Masks and COVID-19: one of the important layers to protect yourself, your community
British Columbians have been nimble in adapting their individual actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 in our communities over the last ten months, and it has had a big impact. Our actions have helped keep our hospitals, schools and workplaces open - and protect the ones we love. Such essential actions include maintaining ...
Letter: Message from Your Kootenay Columbia MP
To The Editor: I just received a campaign flyer from my MP Rob Morrison. I have some concerns about the content. There is a certain luxury to being in opposition in that you don’t have to have demonstrated your performance in the situation for which you are being critical. The endorsement from other party members intended...
Letter: Federal leaders urged to invest in robustness of Canadian communities
To The Editor: (The following Letter has been sent to) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland: Two new reports have come to my attention which I wish to share with you both. The first is by David Hughes, a renowned energy expert, and written for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In the...
Report says Trans Mountain pipeline expansion no longer needed
The assumptions underlying the federal government’s $12.6 billion commitment to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX) no longer stand up in 2020, according to a new report from veteran earth scientist David Hughes. Reassessment of Need for the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion Project, released today by the...
Op/Ed: Message to NDP Government — Fix systems to make clean air to breath, clean water to drink, healthy food to eat for everyone
The NDP is projected to form a majority government following Saturday's provincial election, with Katrine Conroy being re-elected in Kootenay West by a landslide, and Brittny Anderson, NDP has been declared the provisional winner in Nelson-Creston. The West Kootenay EcoSociety congratulates our local elected MLAs and wants ...
