By David Suzuki At the end of the film Don’t Look Up — in which a comet hurtling toward Earth serves as a blunt metaphor for the climate crisis — astronomy professor Randall Mindy (played by Leonard DiCaprio) says, “We really did have everything, didn’t we?” It’s true. This spinning ball of earth, water and […]

To The Editor: I have read with interest the updates on Columbia River Treaty (CRT) re-negotiations that Kathy Eichenberger periodically provides to the public. As a resident of the Kootenays and Past President of the BC Wildlife Federation (BCWF) I am supportive of Arrow Reservoir water level stabilization and Columbia salmon returning to BC which […]

To the Editor: Recently I saw an online site that claimed to be footage mainstream media won’t show you. I watched a video of an 18 years old soldier holding a big gun. He was sobbing, standing behind a tree, realizing he would soon be killed. At that moment he must have questioned everything that […]

The Valhalla Wilderness Society (VWS) says the BC government is not being up front with the public about a major intended change to grizzly bear management. The proposed change is revealed in a draft Grizzly Bear Stewardship Framework that is currently under public review. Over fifty-five environmental groups and conservationists have signed an open letter […]

By Jeffery B. Meyers, for The Conversation I have written before that the far-right populist nationalism of the sort that fuelled the events of Jan. 6, 2021 in the United States and the so-called “freedom convoy” of February 2022 in Canada are not outlier events. We live in a period in which the validity of […]

As someone who has called Castlegar home since childhood, I am very disturbed to see the current situation in the Arrow Lakes Reservoir. This region is ingrained in my own personal history: my family camped, swam, fished and boated in the lakes, close to our home. These waters have been part of my life for […]

As scientists warn that we’ve pushed the planet “well outside the safe operating space for humanity” and young people march for their futures, the fossil fuel industry campaigns to keep its products, and the world, burning. Industry’s push for continued global energy market dominance accounts for the climate emergency in the most cynical way. Most […]

The year is 1941. Wonder Woman makes her first comic book appearance, boxes of Cheerios appear on grocery store shelves for the first time, singers Joan Baez, Neil Diamond and Aaron Neville are born, and an attack on Pearl Harbour by the Japanese Navy changes the course of WWII by drawing the United States more […]

By Trace Acres Here’s something that may surprise you: Driving may be the most dangerous thing most of us do in our job, even if we do it just once in a while. Don’t think you drive at work? You may need to think again. Sure, you may not be a courier or delivery person […]

As British Columbia’s lead in negotiations with the United States to modernize the Columbia River Treaty, I would like to comment on the difficult conditions in the Arrow Lakes Reservoir this year. My perspective comes from having lived in the West Kootenay for 10 years, assuming several provincial environmental roles in the region and, for […]