Letters to the Editor
by Letters to the editor on 15 October 2015 - 9:51pm
To the Editor:
There is another important reason to vote out Harper that I have yet to see in print, so I bring it to voters’ attention now. Simply put, 4 more years of Harper risks ruining the tourism industry in the Kootenays.
Let me explain. Thanksgiving weekend my girlfriend and I made the long drive from Vancouver to the Kootenays to...
by Letters to the editor on 13 October 2015 - 8:00pm
To the Editor:
Kootenay Columbia voters should be worried there are candidates running for office who don’t understand the giant benefit of the Trans Pacific Partnership.
The Elk Valley yields metallurgical coal. BC production generates...
by Letters to the editor on 13 October 2015 - 7:54pm
To the Editor:
I moved to Nelson two years ago from Cranbrook. I’ve known Wayne Stetski and his family for the last twenty years. We worked closely together with Citizens for a Livable Cranbrook in 2009 to reverse the City Council’s plan to incorporate a huge land parcel extending Cranbrook’s boundary significantly.
I assisted in the campaign to elect...
by Letters to the editor on 13 October 2015 - 8:14am
To the Editor:
I am deeply concerned about the misinformation being spread in our riding about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Former Conservative MP Jim Abbott, now senior advisor to the David Wilks election campaign, trumpets the new trade agreement as “a gigantic...
by Letters to the editor on 12 October 2015 - 8:32am
To The Editor:
The recently negotiated (Trans-Pacific Partnership) TPP trade agreement is another example of the Harper Conservatives trying to throw the Election in their favour.
Again Harper has shown his disdain for democracy by ignoring the Canadian Constitution.
According to our Constitution, when Harper dissolved...
by Letters to the editor on 12 October 2015 - 8:20am
To The Editor:
In 2011, Stephen Harper convinced Canadians to give him a majority, and look how that turned out. Harper used - some might say abused - this majority to bring in a vast amount of poorly conceived, highly partisan legislation - including all the omnibus budgets...
by Letters to the editor on 4 October 2015 - 1:44pm
To The Editor:
With the two front runner candidates, (Wayne) Stetski (of the NDP) and (David) Wilks (of the Conservatives), currently locked at 37 percent in the local polls, those voters planning to vote either Green or Liberal need to know that their votes will only serve to help Wilks get re-elected.
Only if those of us who want the Harper...
by Letters to the editor on 4 October 2015 - 12:45pm
To The Editor:
According to an article in Forbes magazine, Japan’s lost nuclear output since Fukushima has been half displaced by efficiency, frugality, and renewables. Renewables provide 13% of America’s energy, 33% of Italy’s, 46% of Spain’s, 50% of Scotland’s, over 50% of Denmark’s, and 64% of Portugal’s. Germany’s fossil-fueled generation hit a 35-year low...
by Letters to the editor on 28 September 2015 - 10:54am
To the Editor:
This is an open letter to David Wilks.
Mr. Wilks, you are running for re-election as MP for Kootenay-Columbia. I would like your constituents to know that I believe you are not a fit person for the job.
Over the past four years, you have shown that you are more concerned with following orders from the...
by Letters to the editor on 5 September 2015 - 7:50am
To The Editor
You may have read or heard that Cottonwood Market's future is uncertain. I want to assure you that nothing could be further from the truth. The City of Nelson is planning to tear down the current buildings at the end of this season, but we plan to work with the city to erect new shelters before the season begins for 2016. I am completely certain...
