Budget 2011 comes down with new spending
Finance Minister Colin Hansen delivered a status-quo budget for British Columbians on Tuesday, with a nod and an increase in spending for core health care, education and social services. Budget 2011 focused new spending on health care and social services and provides some fiscal flexibility for the priorities of the new premier...
Offloading rumour by Province has RDCK chair Kettle boiling
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyA rumour the Province may offload the cost of maintaining and insuring dikes and berms in the regional district has the chair of the board ready to throw down the gloves. John Kettle was livid recently when he learned that an internal staff recommendation coming out of the Natural Resource...
Our current MP doesn't even understand CETA
To the Editor, As most people will recall, the NDP sent out a cartoonish flyer last fall, which discussed the Canada-European Union: Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, also known simply as CETA. Since then, there has been much discussion about the issue and recently, our current MP has spent time criticizing both ...
Director says IHA 'blackmailing' hospital board
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyIn a move he characterized as “blackmail,” one regional district director said Interior Health Authority is using a points system for prioritizing capital projects to force hospital boards to fund up to 90 per cent of their cost, far above the legal limit. Regional District of Central...
Nazanin Afshin-Jam presents at upcoming Mir lecture
Nazanin Afshin-Jam is a human rights activist, president and co-founder of Stop Child Executions, former Miss World Canada and Miss World first runner-up and the upcoming speaker for Selkirk College’s Mir Centre for Peace Winter Lecture Series. She will be speaking passionately about the rights of women and children in her ...
Sir John A. Macdonald Day
The man partly responsible for the creation of British Columbia has his day today.It is Sir John A. Macdonald Day, Canada’s first Prime Minister and the second longest serving minister in history. Canada’s current prime minister, Stephen Harper, issued the following statement in recognition of Sir John A. Macdonald Day: “A ...
Midway mill purchase delayed
Delays in investments have forced deadlines to be extended for the purchase of the Midway sawmill by local investors and the Village of Midway. The open offering of shares for sale to raise the needed cash for the purchase started late and as a result the money needed to close the deal was not in place. The original deadline...
Kutenai Place helps save the environment
Energy upgrades at Kutenai Place have saved 36 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, part of a move to conserve power at public sector buildings across the province. With $156,086 in funding, Kutenai Place was able to trim the tonnage by upgrading through its heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems in the building. ...
Mungall releases second in video trilogy series
Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall is using YouTube to send a video trilogy to Rich Coleman, the minister responsible for Housing. The three video letters focus on CMHA’s proposed 35-unit housing project slated for Nelson’s Anderson Street. “The Anderson Street housing project has been stalled for much too long. Minister...
Mungall comes out in support of recently resigned James
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyThe city’s MLA has come out in support of the now resigned BC NDP party leader, one day after Carole James announced she could no longer keep the fractious party together. Michelle Mungall, MLA for Nelson-Creston, extolled the way James rebuilt the party in the provincial legislature, taking...
