The Conservative government tabled the Bill C-45: Jobs and Growth Act on October 18, 2012. It became law on December 14, 2012. Bill C-45 was the second omnibus budget bill passed in 2012. The first omnibus budget bill was Bill C-38: Jobs, Growth and Long-Term Prosperity Act, which became law in June 2012. The Bills are intended...

Summer is just around the corner and for most families that means plenty of time spent outdoors. So it’s important to know that activities like these can result in contact with bats, the primary carrier of the rabies virus in B.C.   According to Interior Health Authority (IHA) rabies is a very serious disease that affects the...

The students of Fine Woodworking at Selkirk College invite the public to their 2013 Year End Show, May 24th – 26th.  They will be showing their work at the Nelson Trading Company building at 402 Baker Street in Nelson. The show will include student projects made over the past year including unique and innovative examples of...

On May 15, 73-year-old Joyce Ramsden was convicted of trafficking in cocaine and sentenced to two years in jail.   Forty-four-year-old Rodney Gritchen was found guilty of Possession of cocaine and handed a $400 fine.   The matter regarding the third male, 49-year-old Peter Nevakshonoff, is still before the courts and he is ...

West Kootenay U14 and U19 girls softball teams travelled to Summerland this past Mother’s Day weekend. There was a total of 24 teams between the two divisions. The West Kootenay U14 and U19 teams both went 5-0 before coming to tight finishes in the finals. U14 lost 9-7 and U19 lost 11-10 in the finals, […]

Kootenay residents will get help slimming down their energy use when they join the Kootenay Energy Diet, set to launch in Castlegar on May 22 with community ener-ventions (information sessions and trade shows) to follow in Trail, Salmo, Rossland, Grand Forks, Slocan, Creston and Kaslo. “As we found through the successful...

Join Arun Gandhi as he addresses violence through education and his work with impoverished children using the lessons that he learned from his famous grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi. This lecture takes place at the Brilliant Cultural Centre on May 17th. Inspired Legacy Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, was born in South ...

Dear Sir, I couldn't believe my eyes. Your letter page contained a letter from someone who holds a position of power in a local cooperative. He wrote to raise the prospect of taxation as a spectre of fear and loathing against which all co-op members should raise standards, mount ramparts and prepare to repel raiding hordes ...

CBC Radio recently aired an interesting interview on with Dr. Paul Kershaw, an associate professor in the College for Interdisciplinary Studies at UBC, who has started an initiative called Generation Squeeze. We’ve all either heard of or personally experienced the Boomerang Generation, where children we thought we had...

When life brings you change it is often hard to shift gears to meet the new direction you need to head. Most of you have seen the new style of the Boundary Sentinel that arrived last week. The new look comes with a shift in the Sentinel as a whole. After bringing the Sentinel to life three years ago, and nurturing the business...