Vander Zalm calls for resignation of Election BC's acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James
Fight HST Leader Bill Vander Zalm is calling for the resignation of Elections BC Acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James in the wake of James’ decision to reject the application for Recall by Oak Bay-Gordon Head proponent Michael Roy Hayes on the basis that the Recall statement attached to the petition application is “too long”. […]
Ag plan gears up for education process
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson Daily Small scale farming in the West Kootenay cannot compete with the massive farming operations in California where most of our food is imported from, says one of the authors of a coming Area Agricultural Plan. Russell Precious said what exists currently in the West Kootenay is not abundant enough, […]
Corporations: 'citizen' psychopaths
National governments have been back in the news over the past two years because of the financial crisis and the havoc it wreaked on the global economy. Belying the ideology that nations were obsolete in the grand new order of transnational corporations, they are now front and centre trying to save the corporations that supposedly […]
Christina Lake man charged with feeding bears
A resident of Christina Lake has been charged with one count of feeding dangerous wildlife under the Wildlife Act [Sec. 33.1(1)]. Allan Wayne Piche is scheduled to appear in Grand Forks provincial court on Dec. 14, 2010. A police investigation of an alleged marijuana grow operation in mid-August 2010 uncovered a number of severely […]
Outposts
Whatever the Western media calls them, the illegal Jewish settlements on the West Bank are very far from being outposts. They are connected to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv by fast, Jews-only motorways. Their villas have swimming pools and lawns (a settler is allocated eight times more water than a Palestinian). Even the most recent and […]
Mexico’s regional newspapers limit reporting of Cartels’ role in drug violence
By Stephen Engelberg in ProPublica Mexico’s regional newspapers are failing to report many of the murders, attacks on police and other violence linked to the nation’s war against drug cartels, a new analysis shows. The Fundación MEPI, an independent investigative journalism center, studied the crime coverage of 11 regional newspapers and found that the drug-trafficking cartels receive little […]
Logging stopped as Sinixt win injunction in court
By Timothy Schafer, The Nelson DailyA hotspot of environmental and political activity on Perry Ridge will now be cooled until the new year. The Sinixt Nation protest camp and blockade on Perry Ridge Forest Service Road will be dismantled after the aboriginal group was successful Monday afternoon in obtaining an injunction...
Jet-setting hockey players aim to slash emissions
By Jonathan Spicer, Reuters With 30 teams crisscrossing North America throughout the 82-game season, the National Hockey League takes its toll on the environment. That's 750 players, along with their trainers, coaches and equipment, packed into fuel-burning aircraft from October until the Stanley Cup is finally awarded in...
Hatchery-raised salmon threatening wild salmon in the Pacific Northwest
By David A Gabel, Environmental News Network This year was one of the biggest salmon runs of all time for BC’s Pacific Northwest with over 34 million salmon in the province’s river system alone. The problem with this resurgence is that much of the new numbers come from hatchery-raised salmon, which have created increased competition […]
RCMP issue warning regarding phone, mail and e-mail fraud in the region
The Crime Prevention unit of the Trail RCMP have issued a warning today regarding an e-mail and phone fraud scam that has been taking place across Canada and in our own backyard in the Kootenays over the past week. Police are urging citizens to use extra caution when receiving what appears to be either a phone […]
