New Democrat leader Adrian Dix and the party advanced education critic Michelle Mungall joined students at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna Wednesday to call on the B.C. Liberal government to reinstate needs-based student grants. The gathering was part of the February 1 National Day of Action for post ...

Madison's Lumber Reporter has learned that the United States' claim against Canada, for alleged subsidies on British Columbia's timber stumpage rates, has been reduced from US$499 to US$303.6 million. In the American rebuttal of Canada's defense, which was filed on Dec. 23, 2011 but only made public this week, the U.S. Trade...

Two recent stories out of Ottawa underline the ongoing political and economic assault on ordinary Canadians. More Canadians are now working for low wages than at any time in decades, continuing a trend that began in the early 1990s, and Stephen Harper has announced major changes to retirement benefits — including delaying Old...

  If you had to choose between Nelson City Council cutting back its funding for snow ploughing or its grant to the Capitol Theatre or its staffing at the fire hall, which would you vote for? Would you prefer that council increase funding for police equipment, or the youth centre, or pothole repair? Those are examples of the...

Ecojustice is calling on regulators overseeing public hearings on Enbridge’s Northern Gateway project to investigate and comment on whether remarks made by the Government of Canada in recent weeks have damaged the integrity of what is supposed to be a fair and objective process. “Comments made in recent weeks by Prime Minister...

While many of us are working to ensure that the Occupy movement will have a lasting impact, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in the ...

Hydro rates may go up by 5.8% in the coming year if council approves the draft plan presented to it on January 23 by Nelson Hydro General Manager Alex Love. That would amount to an average increase of $10 per bi-monthly bill or about $60 per year for residential customers, starting in April.  The City of Nelson is unique among...

In response to growing pressure from voters and competitors, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released 550 pages of tax returns Tuesday, covering two years of income. As one of the richest men ever to run for President, Romney's filings are enormously complex, and the subject of close scrutiny. News organizations...

Where will you be and what will you be doing when the first giant oil tanker, (there will be two plying the waters every three days) carrying over 200,000 gallons of tar sands goop diluted with solvent, spills its load into the pristine waters of the northern BC coast? We often remember catastrophic events by recalling exactly...

At their January 23 meeting, Nelson City Council discussed the possibility of using social media. This came up during a presentation by Deryn Collier about her work  as the city’s communications consultant  “I am not a Facebook user and I have to admit I am a bit of a Luddite in the social media field,” said Nelson City...