The BC River Forecast Centre has issued a high streamflow warning for several rivers in the Boundary and across the Southern Interior today, including the Kettle and Granby Rivers. Several days of seasonally hot weather has led to high snowmelt rates over the past two to three days, particularly at the Moyie Mountain , East Creek […]

Dear Rick Hansen: I hope that during your next 25 years of raising money for spinal cord research (SCR) we will see the end of inhumane, scientifically fallacious spinal cord experiments on animals. It was 25 years ago when Lifeforce, a Vancouver based ecology and animal rights organization, gave you extensive data about the failure […]

30 year-old William Housty's powerhouse presentation to the National Energy Board's Enbridge hearings in his community of Bella Bella. William describes the history, language and culture of his people in fascinating detail - and how the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline and Tar Sands supertankers transiting the waters of his...

First you shut down an industry then you build it back up with subsidies. Sound like Pierre Trudeau? Think again. This is Conservative MP Dan Albas we’re talking about. Albas is taking the credit for a whopping $240,000 handout from the federal government to a community group who’re setting up a mobile abattoir in the Grand Forks area. […]

“Our airport is better.” “No, OUR airport is better.” “You’re not closing OUR school.” “Well, you’re sure not closing OURS. So there.” Every time I try to imagine how dialogue between Castlegar and Trail must sound to ministry officials at both the provincial and federal levels, I can almost hear the banjos playing in the […]

Dear Editor, I’ve just been reading your story “Only YOU can prevent cancer now” and can support wholeheartedly the mission of the PCN (Prevent Cancer Now) campaigners. What I find ironical though, and even hypocritical in some instances, is that we often read about campaigns about carcinogens from BPA, tanning beds, nuclear power, coal fired […]

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...

UPDATE: The GFSS Talent Show and Bake Sale has been postponed to Monday, April 23 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the GFSS Auditorium. Community talents are also welcome to participate. For more information, please contact Taylor Lindquist at taylor-lindquist@live.ca .   Taylor Lindquist is like any other Canadian child. She has a loving family, […]

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 […]

When the final tally is done on humanity’s many post-Industrial Revolution screw ups, it is likely that the top of the list will be: They let the bees die. Consider this: According to a 2010 UN Environmental Programme report, some 100 crop species provide 90% of food worldwide. Nearly three quarters of these crops depend for...