By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily Being Green is all about the freedom to represent your constituents, the interim BC provincial Green Party leader told a  dinner crowd of about 100 at the Rod and Gun Club in Nelson Saturday night. “It’s always good that the other parties know we meet at the Rod and […]

BC Southern Interior MP Alex Atamanenko is critical of the latest Budget Implementation Act, Bill C-4. The 300-page bill amends dozens of acts and contains many measures that are not budgetary.  “Once again, the Conservatives are trying to cram through major changes without sufficient study by Parliament.  What is disturbing...

By Suzy Hamilton, The Nelson Daily A room with a view from the top of the White Building may be tempting, but the RDCK is going nowhere until it figures out how much space it needs to adapt to a paperless, modernized workspace. The city of Nelson made a pitch to regional district board members […]

 Over the past year we have heard a great deal about various voter-suppression phone calls or “robocalls,” as they have become known, that were made during the last federal election. Six applicants from six federal ridings sought an annulment under the Canada Elections Act of the 2011 election results in those ridings, based...

A recent headline announced that JP Morgan has reached a tentative $13-billion settlement with the US government for the role it played in creating the 2007-8 mess that left many nations, including Canada, in a prolonged state of economic dysphoria. JP Morgan was a central actor in the play that created this mess. How much ...

I write in response to letters penned by Mr. Malcolm, CEO City of Castlegar and Councillors McIntosh and Heaton-Sherstobitoff in regard to written comments made by me in response to what I felt was an over-reactive rebuttal penned by Kyra Hoggan to the letter from Paul Thederen published in the October 3, 2013 edition of the...

The one-day protest by Greenpeace at the Kinder Morgan Metro Vancouver facility on Burrard Inletis over. Activists have left the Kinder Morgan tar sands tanker dock following their day long protest said Greenpeace media spokesperson. "We came to make a point and draw attention to the tar sands and the threat they pose," said...

Dear Kyra: Thank you for writing a rebuttal with regard to the hiring of a second deputy fire chief and the Fire Chief as the airport manager. It certainly has ignited a lot of dialogue in our community – which is great. Almost a year ago, council debated the merits of hiring a second deputy fire chief during our budget...

Dear Kyra: Thank you for writing a rebuttal with regard to the hiring of a second deputy fire chief and the Fire Chief as the airport manager. It certainly has ignited a lot of dialogue in our community – which is great. Almost a year ago, council debated the merits of hiring a second deputy fire chief during our budget...

I have read with interest some of the comments and letters written about the City's hiring of a second Deputy Fire Chief. I have been interested to see the comments because often times when members of our community write, they have brilliant ideas and cogent arguments that serve the community well. It is this reason that...