Local Group Wants to Grow Vegetables in Lakeside Greenhouses
A Nelson community group wants to use the Lakeside Park greenhouses to grow vegetables during the 9-11 months of the year the structures are not being used by the city. Local resident Lee Reid presented the Seniors Economic Environment Development (SEED) vision to council’s Committee of the Whole meeting on June 25. “Making...
OPINION: Time to move on in the marijuana conversation
In early April of this year one of the most brilliant marketing campaigns ever designed was launched. With a splash of media exposure, a small group of eight people started a conversation that has not stopped nearly three months later. As the chatter moves contagiously through more and more people, the volume has been amplified...
Dooley and Macdonald Reflect Back on Council’s Marijuana Debate
The Nelson Daily’s full transcript of the marijuana debate at the June 11 Nelson City Council meeting has had an extraordinary number of page views on our site. The discussion chronicled there raises many questions. Should Mayor John Dooley have stepped down from chairing the meeting given his highly emotional response to ...
U.S. drug strategy goes down wrong road
By Huffington Post TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — A U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent who killed a suspected drug trafficker during a raid in a remote region of Honduras was part of an aggressive new enforcement strategy that has sharply increased the interception of illegal drug flights. The mission, called Operation Anvil,...
Beyond Harper: Rebuilding community
Of all the appalling abuses of democracy and ruthless dismantling of the country represented by Bill C-38 one stands out of as representative of the right wing dystopia that Stephen Harper has in store for the 99 per cent. And that is the mentality and ideology behind the draconian changes to EI. This is particularly true of...
Marshall Lake dam faces 11th hour decisions
Local governments and the public have until the end of this month to come up with a plan to preserve Marshall Lake. That’s all the time the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) will allow for a decision to be made on whether or not the city, regional district or the public are willing and able...
OP/ED: Healthy forests for communities
By: Bill Bourgeois In the past two decades, British Columbians have witnessed two starkly different approaches to managing the province’s forest resources. Following the so-called “war in the woods” in the early 1990s, the Provincial Government responded with a series of initiatives emphasizing land-use planning, greater...
Plenty of work ahead for new Greek government
Huffington Post ATHENS, Greece — Greek conservative party head Antonis Samaras was sworn in as prime minister Wednesday at the helm of a three-party coalition that will uphold the country's international bailout commitments. The move ends a protracted political crisis that had cast grave doubt over Greece's future in Europe's...
Politicians are a shadow. What casts the shadow?
I have been writing about politics lately. Now I will turn my attentions to a wider subject, minds and consciousness. It is a great virtue of history that—through its study--people can be cured of thinking they are undergoing something unique, when in historical fact something very similar has happened before. Harper is in...
City Council Gives Civic Theatre Group More Time
Nelson City Council has given the Nelson Civic Theatre Society four months to do a feasibility study to bolster the proposal the group presented to Council on May 31. “There was a lot of excellent thought and detail put into it. We were impressed, and we realized they needed more time,” said Councillor Paula Kiss on June 11...
