Letters to the Editor
by Letters to the editor on 23 April 2014 - 5:07pm
Nelson, Earth Day, April 24, 2014
Dear Premier Clark:
The proposed changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in Bill 24, don't take into account that the ALR is just one leg of what should have been a two prong approach to agriculture from the start. While the ALR mostly succeeded in protecting our farm land, it did nothing for BC farmers,...
by Letters to the editor on 22 April 2014 - 3:30pm
Editor, The Nelson Daily
To: The SD8 (Kootenay Lake) Community
RE: Strike Action
As you are aware, negotiations between the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) and the BC Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA) are ongoing. From March 4 – 6, 2014, teachers across the Province held a strike vote.
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by Letters to the editor on 14 April 2014 - 3:14pm
Editor, The Nelson Daily
I just watched P. M. Harper do his cold warrior toughest-man-on-the-block pose for the world's media. Here is a quote, more or less:
"We know from History, that those who make it their historical mission to turn back the clock, as Mr. Putin has done, will ultimately fail."
He added three fine adjectives to...
by Letters to the editor on 10 April 2014 - 5:41pm
Editor, The Nelson Daily
The headline in a March 23, 2014 article appearing in The Nelson Daily is misleading (at best) and there is some seriously self-serving spin in the content and quotes attributed to Mr. (John)...
by Letters to the editor on 9 March 2014 - 12:04pm
Editor, The Nelson Daily
ALR- Agricultural Land Reserve.
I had never given much thought to the ALR. Honestly, I took it for granted because it's just common sense to protect the farmland which feeds us, period.
The ALR town hall meeting in Nelson saw a room packed with people who care about food.
Why?
Because the BC government is...
by Letters to the editor on 2 March 2014 - 11:46am
Editor, The Nelson Daily:
Congratulations to the MIR Peace Lecture series for bringing in Chris Hedges for his extraordinary talk last Friday, February 28th.
Hedges covered a huge landscape of the world today in a little over an hour. He centered much of his message around the imagery of the novel Moby Dick. The author, Herman Melville, was a...
by Letters to the editor on 30 January 2014 - 11:17am
The Editor, The Nelson Daily
This week the BC Supreme Court ruled, for the second time, that the BC government broke the Constitution, twice when it stripped teachers of our working conditions.
Those working conditions kept class sizes small, ensured students had access to specialist teachers, and provided extra help to students with special needs. This...
by Letters to the editor on 30 December 2013 - 9:02pm
Editor, The Nelson Daily
Wildsight has been engaged with grizzly bear population surveys as well as efforts to assure healthy grizzly bear populations in the region for several decades.
While it is true that grizzly bear numbers are recovering in this region, it is a simplistic misrepresentation to suggest that recovery is complete and that a hunt is...
by Letters to the editor on 13 December 2013 - 2:01pm
Editor, The Nelson Daily
Kevin Pearce is a remarkable young man.
A horrible crash at the height of his amazing snowboarding carreer has left him brain injured yet thoughtful, honest and more realistic than most of us who have never faced such highs and lows.
Last (Thursday) night at the Civic Theatre screening of The Crash Reel, he...
by Contributor on 29 November 2013 - 1:17pm
November 29, 2013
To Our SD8 (Kootenay Lake) Community
This letter is to follow up from the one I sent to you dated August 29, 2013. I have no doubt that you have been hearing in the media about the current state of our District’s negotiations relative to the CUPE collective agreement. The purpose of this message is to advise you that recently CUPE Local 748 has...
