Letters to the Editor
by Letters to the editor on 23 November 2020 - 3:28pm
To The Editor:
Top international lawyers to draft definition of "Ecocide" 75 years after Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide coined at Nuremberg.
It’s an extraordinary moment to be launching this project as the first international trials are remembered at Nuremberg. 75 years on, humanity faces a new and global threat: climate and ecological crisis...
by Letters to the editor on 2 November 2020 - 8:10am
To The Editor:
(The following Letter has been sent to)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland:
Two new reports have come to my attention which I wish to share with you both.
The first is by David Hughes, a renowned energy expert, and written for the Canadian...
by Letters to the editor on 18 October 2020 - 1:14pm
To the Editor:
Imagine it's October, 2030. That special four year old in your life will be fourteen. Will the skies be filled with smoke? Will there still be caribou? Will Kootenays communities have drinkable water?
What kind of a life will children be inheriting? And what are you willing...
by Letters to the editor on 5 October 2020 - 10:07am
To The Editor:
As a constituent in the Federal riding of Kootenay – Columbia, I wanted to find out how the values and issues of my newly elected representative and his Party aligned with my own.
The obvious solution for that would be to write my representative and ask. It actually started before the Federal election, when I asked questions on the then...
by Letters to the editor on 5 October 2020 - 9:23am
Dear Dr. Henry,
Thank you profusely, Dr. Henry, for everything you and your ministry staff have done these past many months to safeguard British Columbians from the suffering of the global novel coronavirus (COVID 19) pandemic.
I am a sixty-six year old Extinction Rebellion climate activist residing in Victoria, and am writing to share my recent...
by Letters to the editor on 22 September 2020 - 8:59am
Editor, the Rossland Telegraph:
I want to be wrong about this. I am only half certain. I think the BC NDP are heading for a defeat.
Premier Horgan has watched New Brunswick's election result and drawn a conclusion, but he is wrong about British Columbians. We are not tolerant of crude political tactics to sustain his power by an election one year ahead of...
by Contributor on 10 September 2020 - 4:46pm
In today’s landmark ruling in the Cambie Surgery Centre case, Justice Steeves dealt a strong blow to the efforts of Dr. Brian Day and others to undermine Canada’s publicly-funded health care system. The decade-long legal attack launched by one of the largest for-profit surgical centres in Canada sought to invalidate...
by Letters to the editor on 8 September 2020 - 4:01pm
To The Editor:
I am sorely perturbed with the amount of misinformation I have had to endure from friends, family and acquaintances. Particularly those with a penchant for using garbage news.
As a student I was shocked when an English teacher remarked that my arguments would have been much better if I had used the Encyclopedia Britannica as a source...
by Letters to the editor on 2 September 2020 - 12:12pm
I will start with one word, “unacceptable.” That is how I, and many others view your plan. The theory of it is sound, based on what we have learned with the various epidemiological crises of our times, beginning with the first SARS outbreak of 2003. There is no argument about the benefits of physical distancing, frequent and thorough hand washing, and the benefits of wearing a mask in...
by Letters to the editor on 10 August 2020 - 5:35pm
To The Editor:
In this global climate crisis, when the world needs to reduce its CO2 emissions, it seems counter-intuitive to consider extending a coal mine in the Elk Valley (Castle Project).
Consider the following:
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