PAKISTAN: Stop dumping on us!
Globalization is often touted as the solve it all solution of the problems this world faces today. However there are several very highly toxic effects of globalization as well. For instance these seemingly dissipating borders means that the western world has been and even now is engaged in dumping its plastic and medical waste...
Dix to be commended for renewing NDP's call for a ban on corporate and union donations
IntegrityBC congratulates NDP leader Adrian Dix for renewing the BC NDP's call for a ban on corporate and union donations to political parties in the province. Dix is honouring the pledge that the NDP made in its 2009 platform. Dix made the call during a media scrum last Wednesday while responding to questions over the annual...
Nelson Fire Department quickly extinguishes brush fire Monday
The quick response of the Nelson Fire Department put a stop to a brush fire Monday afternoon near the junction of Blewett and Fisherman’s Pit roads. Between 2:30-3 p.m., NFD received a call of a brush fire near the Nelson Hydro substation. The fire may be partly responsible for a power outage to the Taghum […]
Meat producers take production to the next level
Visions of exporting “Boundary grown” meat products to customers willing to pay soaring prices for high quality food are in the sights of regional farmers after a meeting last week about increasing the meat industry’s potential. The meeting on Mar. 31, organized by Doug Zorn, Larry Dees and Patti Bevilacqua, was originally designed to see […]
Fire guts truck and powerboat at residence near Thrums
Volunteer fire crews from Tarrys and Ootischenia departments responded to a fire near Lookout Road in Thrums Saturday afternoon. At approximately 3:30 p.m. neighbours ran to 1407 Lookout Road approximately 10 kilometers east of Castlegar to inform the resident there was a fire in the back yard. The resident had been working in his shop […]
Trains moving again on CP Rail line betwen Nelson and Castlegar after crews clear derailment near Fortis BC Corra Linn power plant
The trains are moving again on the Canadian Pacific Railway Kootenay Valley line between Nelson and Castlegar. Crews worked tirelessly for three days to clear and repair the line following Tuesday’s derailment near the Fortis BC Corra Linn Dam next to the Kootenay River that saw all four locomotives and eight concentrator cars leave the […]
Tired driver careens off Central Avenue
A 57year-old man from Creston, B.C. blacked out behind the wheel while driving down Central Avenue in Grand Forks, causing him to leave the road, crash through a metal guard rail and land on the hood of a gray Pontiac Sunfire parked in the Video Express parking lot. Grand Forks RCMP and the first responders […]
The Mir Centre for Peace presents Idealism in Exile: The Making of the West Kootenay Counterculture
During the 1960s and 1970s an influx of immigrants from the United States seeking asylum from the war in Vietnam and people from other parts of Canada stirred the cultural pot of the West Kootenay, adding a unique countercultural element to the area. Selkirk College graduate and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University...
UPDATE: CP Rail crews work through the night to re-open line
Canadian Pacific Rail crews worked feverously through the night to clear the derailment of a westbound train near the Fortis BC Corra Linn Dam next to the Kootenay River. Tuesday morning, a westbound freight train left the tracks causing all four locomotives and eight concentrator cars to derail. After quickly assessing the accident scene, CP […]
CP Rail train derails west of Nelson, no one hurt
For the second time in less than a week a Canadian Pacific Rail line in the West Kootenay has been closed. At approximately 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, a westbound CPR train on the Kootenay Valley Rail line derailed above the Fortis BC Corra Linn power plant. The train was rounding a corner near the Fortis BC […]
