Most of us have heard about the student exchange program operated by Rotary International, for students from 15 to 19.  Now, Rossland is the North American headquarters for another long-established student exchange program:  En Famile International is designed for students as young as 9, up to age 16. En Famille is a...

Current and anticipatory grief The reality of the continuing extinction of many so species is profoundly upsetting.  Readers may wonder why old people should care.  For example, I’ll be dead in a few years myself;  it will be up to others to live their lives diminished by the loss of caribou and many other creatures, many...

By John Rapley, for Aeon Two questions: is it good or bad that professional athletes earn 400 times what nurses do, and is string theory a dead end? Each question goes to the heart of its discipline. Yet while you probably answered the first, you’d hold an opinion on the prospects of string theory only if you’ve studied...

Some Elections matter more: this should be one Canadians are about to choose a national, federal government on October 21. It is a more significant choice for our nation than we have faced in many elections, and not because Canada alone is facing some unusual circumstances: the entire human world and the non-human species...

The navigational lock at the Hugh L. Keenleyside Dam will be closed starting at 4 p.m. on Sunday, September 29th. The lock will reopen at 8 a.m. on Monday, October 14th.     This closure is necessary to undertake maintenance activities that will ensure the long-term, reliable and safe operation of the Navigational Lock. We ...

On September 12, 2019, officers from the local RCMP detachment tracked down a truck reported as stolen from the Red Mountain Ski Resort.  The truck was owned by a contracting company working in the area, and was equipped with GPS – which provided live updates on the truck’s location and made finding the stolen vehicle much ...

This notice is to advise you of changes to the discharge rates from Arrow Lakes Reservoir that will take place on Friday, Sept. 13 and Saturday, Sept. 14: ·         At 7 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 13, the discharge rate will decrease from approximately 1,104 cubic metres per second (39,000 cubic feet per second) to about  963 cubic...

There’s a new online source for people seeking easy-to-understand information on climate change specific to communities throughout the Columbia Basin and Boundary regions. The Columbia Basin Climate Source website—basinclimatesource.ca— was initiated by Columbia Basin Trust and developed by Selkirk College’s Applied Research...

The polar bear has become the poster child for climate change impacts in the Arctic. Sea ice, which the bears depend on for hunting, is melting at an ever-expanding rate. For other species, climate impacts are not as direct. The 2019 State of Canada’s Birds report found aerial insectivores like swifts, swallows and nightjars...

Attempted Fraud: A 56-year-old Warfield resident reported to our local RCMP detachment that someone driving an older-model black Subaru with Alberta plates approached him and tried to sell him a gold chain and ring.  The resident was aware of this recent scam, in which a suspect pretends to be stranded (or offers some other...