Arts and Culture
By kootenaygallery3 On on Monday Dec 03 2018
Christmas at the Gallery is in full swing at the Kootenay Gallery of Art. Now that December is here, you can shop seven days a week between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.
The whole building is filled with pottery, sewn crafts, paintings, knitted dolls and much more. There are local books for all ages, including SS Minto...
By Contributor On on Sunday Dec 02 2018
By Jim Baggott ; from Aeon
‘The theory produces a good deal but hardly brings us closer to the secret of the Old One,’ wrote Albert Einstein in December 1926. ‘I am at all events convinced that He does not play dice.’
Einstein was responding to a letter from the German physicist Max...
By Andre Carrel On on Saturday Nov 24 2018
I have occasionally been critical of the way we do politics. The recent leaders’ debate on electoral reform provides me with material to explain.
The Opposition prefers electoral reform to be studied by a citizens’ assembly, as in 2003, over the Government’s process. It is a reasonable proposal. The members of the 2003 Citizens’ Assembly were selected at random. It was not an absolute...
By Letters to the ... On on Wednesday Nov 21 2018
Don’t worry!
The Group of Twenty (G20), composed of nineteen countries (including Canada) and the European Union, will meet in Buenos Aires (Argentina) November 30th and December 1st.
By then, newspapers and media analysts will most likely tell us again that they won’t all get along on some major issues during this summit.
But please...
By Charles Jeanes On on Tuesday Nov 20 2018
Introduction: topics committed, topics mapped
“I will probably write the next column with the intent to persuade readers that the human project demands that non-conforming individuals challenge culture more and more, as culture more and more escapes our understanding, our ethics and ...
By Contributor On on Monday Nov 05 2018
Editor's Note: In this age of fake news, when politicians are allowed to lie with impunity -- perhaps even encouraged to lie, because they appear to get good results by lying -- how are people reading the news, or social media, where bizarre fake news abounds -- to know what to believe? For that matter, is it ever a good idea to believe something that is not true? This is...
By Charles Jeanes On on Wednesday Oct 24 2018
War, what is it good for? Absolutely nuthin.’ -- pop song, 1968
War is the Father of us all. – Herodotus, Greek historian, 5th C. BCE
War is over, if you want it. – John Lennon
Forgive me Lord, I do so love it. – General Patton, American Army
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By Rossland Telegraph On on Tuesday Oct 23 2018
Entertainment! As the days draw in and darkness takes over the afternoons, getting together for music, song, dancing and laughter helps keep life fun and repels the dismals. Here are four kinds of relief coming up locally, in order of appearance:
Friday, November 2, at the Bailey Theatre in Trail: Cheesecake Burlesque – an evening of...
By Philip Matyszak On on Wednesday Oct 03 2018
Having read the challenging piece on May 14, 'You don't have the right to believe whatever you want to', I feel that since the piece was intended to be challenging, perhaps it should be challenged.
The basic premise of the text by Professor DeNicola was that some...
By Contributor On on Wednesday Sep 26 2018
By Stephen T. Asma, from Aeon
Religion does not help us to explain nature. It did what it could in pre-scientific times, but that job was...
