There are now three Facebook groups and an online petition with almost 1,000 signatures, all dedicated to saving the bears found at a Christina Lake grow-op last month. (See EXCLUSIVE: Interview with officers who raided bear-protected grow op; The Castlegar Source, August 2010).   The online petition says this: “Police involved in a Canadian drug […]

The fate of up to 15 bears who were being fed by a woman in Christina Lake, possibly as guards for a grow op, is in the hands of nature. The woman involved with the July 30 marijuana bust on her property has been feeding bears for years. Neighbours near her residence have often been […]

 Marijuana and bears and raccoons, oh my! Only in the Kootenays.   I see the humour in the story – who wouldn’t, when a cop watches a massive bear crawl onto his squad car and refers to it as a “big Kootenay hood ornament”? (Although I feel compelled to point out my heroic restraint in […]

 The new arena roof is pretty stellar.  You’ve probably seen it from the outside by now, all metal sheathed, sleek, smooth and buttoned up tight.  It’s gorgeous. The inside is great, too, and it was the ceiling I found myself studying last night (Tuesday, Aug. 17) as our local Rossland roller derby team, “Gnarlies’ Angels”, and […]

 Fifty-year-old Castlegar woman Robin Mackay appearing in court today facing the charge of attempted murder after allegedly stabbing her 73-year-old father repeatedly with a kitchen knife Sunday morning.  Mackay was remanded in custody until Aug. 31, and will appear via ‘video link’ at Provincial Court in Nelson.   “At (about) 12:15 a.m., Castlegar RCMP received […]

A group of officers from the RCMP Integrated Road Safety Unit say nothing surprises them anymore – except this story.  In a true Kootenay interpretation of Jurassic Park meets Jellystone Park meets NYPD Blue, officers from the RCMP and Nelson Police Department executed a search warrant on a rural property near Christina Lake, and were […]

It’s a rare thing to gain exclusive, invite-only access to the world premiere of a film. Almost as rare for this writer is an impromptu trip through Vancouver and the Sea to Sky Corridor to bear witness to such an event: I don’t like leaving my house. Even more rare (and now we’re talking almost […]

Since April 28 of this year, Trail has been inundated with a rash of vandalism to vehicles that involved a chemical being sprayed on them that stripped the paint. The areas hit included Glenmerry along with East and West Trail. In the early hours of August 13, a General Duty member noted a suspicious person on Topping Street […]

A backpack on a picnic table is all the RCMP have to go on in locating 24-year-old Australian Owen Kiernan Rooney. Rooney was last seen at the Boundary Hospital at 7649 – 22 St. in Grand Forks on  Aug. 14 at about 8 p.m. Rooney left the hospital, leaving behind his backpack on a picnic table on […]

by Armine Yalnizyan In the past few weeks some of Canada’s most respected economic authorities, including Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney, have voiced concerns over the fragility of the recovery, globally and at home.  Now Paul Krugman joins that chorus of Cassandras, pointing his finger straight at the wishful thinkers who say Canada’s heavy lifting […]