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The lucky winner of that 'Artfully Rossland' contest
For the month of December, 2018, Tourism Rossland,
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What you need to know about BC Budget 2019
By Iglika Ivanova and Alex Hemingway, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
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Opinion: Zapped: Unravelling the NDP’s new spin around power prices and the...
B.C.'s NDP is now doing precisely what it criticizes the Liberals for doing — manufacturing a need for power while pushing forward with a project that produces energy that can’t be sold for even close...
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Zapped: Unravelling the NDP’s new spin around power prices and the Site C dam
B.C.'s NDP is now doing precisely what it criticizes the Liberals for doing — manufacturing a need for power while pushing forward with a project that produces energy that can’t be sold for even close...
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Canada obliged to protect future generations from climate change, test case...
Young people ‘will live their entire lives under the mounting environmental, economic, and health stresses’ caused by growing greenhouse gas emissions, coalition arguesBy Larry Pynn, for The...
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Editorial: Skiing and Logging in the Rossland Range Recreation Site
Skiers accessing Cutblock Peak and environs: please contain your irritation about the logging operation there that is inconveniencing you – it won’t be there for much longer. Please stay well clear...
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New resources to help mining sector in B.C. thrive
In recognition of Mining Day at the B.C. Parliament Buildings, new resources were announced that will improve mine safety for workers and the environment, while encouraging investment and job creation...
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Excitement about plans for the (former) Emcon lot
Those plans for housing and other uses aren’t firm yet, though, and the City wants to hear from us about the project. There’s a Public Open House at the Miners Hall on March 5, from 7:00 pm to 9:00...
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Column: Renewable power renewing communities
Energy is inextricably linked to a range of community issues, from health to housing. That was one message that emerged from a four-day gathering in Calgary of more than 200 young Indigenous leaders...
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FortisBC to eliminate two-tiered rate
In a media release Thursday, FortisBC said the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) approved the companies request to return to a single, flat rate for its residential electricity customers over a period of...
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Column: on SNC-Lavalin and our government
Last Wednesday we heard riveting testimony from former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould on her account of events in the SNC-Lavalin story. This is a long and sordid tale of corruption both abroad...
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Forum: State of the Kootenays: An Economic Update slated for next month in...
Castlegar & District Economic Development and the Chamber of Commerce will be hosting an exciting event on April 11. The event, titled the State of the Kootenays: An Economic Update, is Castlegar...
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BBB delivers 10 Steps to Avoid Scams
There are thousands of new scams every year, and you can’t keep up with all of them (we know, we try!). But if you can just remember these TEN THINGS, you can avoid most scams and help protect yourself...
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$50,000 to save forest above Cottonwood Lake may be too little, too late
Caught off guard by a plan to log more than 600 hectares of treasured local forest, residents near Cottonwood Lake discovered that privately owned lands can be clearcut without public notice,...
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Opinion: Belief in Meritocracy is not only False; it's Morally Wrong
By Clifton Mark, for Aeon; edited by Nigel Warburton‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack...
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Opinion: Opportunity costs: can carbon taxing become a positive-sum game?
By John Quiggin, professor of Economics at Queensland University in Brisbane, for Aeon
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Council Matters: a climbing gym in the Miners Hall; neighbours oppose...
Rossland City Council: Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, March 11, 2019Public Hearing: 6:00 pmFor public input on Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 2692, to re-zone 2770 Butte Street from R‐1‐Residential...
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COLUMN: Part Three: The West is Best, What do we Owe the Rest?
Part ThreeIn the two previous editions of the Arc, I have been writing about the recent history of Western global dominance, about reactions to that past, and what it reveals about human consciousness...
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Editorial: We aren't enlightened, we're just short of workers
Will the new Builders Code help women and other minorities survive in the trades? Time will tell.
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In-Depth: Sprawling clearcuts among reasons for B.C.’s monster spring floods
Wildfire, drought and a pine beetle epidemic are piling on top of a long history of logging, pushing the province’s forests to a dangerous tipping point that experts say will make bad flooding worseBy...
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