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Sustainable Development Goals: A Path to Prosperity
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Water and Sewer Costs, our Economy, and Huge Surprises: Bah Humbug.
In about the year 2000, I calculated that the average residential property in Canada was being under-taxed by about $1500 per year, just to provide the money that would have been needed then to pay...
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Excessive concerns over fracking-related seismic activity, water...
The risks of hydraulic fracturing — the practice of injecting sand, water, and a relatively small quantity of chemicals deep underground at high pressures to extract fossil fuels — are readily...
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Council Pulls the Plug on Rapid Rate Changes
Council has decided to pull the plug on the proposed changes to its water and sewer rate structures in time for a January 1st rate change. The proposed changes to Rossland’s water and sewer rate...
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Reform of public land management needed in Alberta to address competing...
Land management in Alberta and much of Western Canada can be enhanced if policies ensure that property rights are well-defined and transferable, finds a new book released today by the Fraser Institute,...
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BC Municipal Operating Spending Increases "Unsustainable": CFIB
The Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) has issued a report on what it calls "unsustainable levels" of increases in BC municipal operating spending since 2003. The figures used in...
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Columbia Valley economy takes big hit with closing of Canfor mill at Canal Flats
The Canfor Mill as Canal Flats officially closes its doors Monday said the United Steelworkers Local 1-405 in a media release.As of Monday (November 9), after over a 100 years of sawmill operation in...
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Nelson Hydro rolls out plans for Community Solar program
Ready, set . . . time to make solar power.Nelson Hydro is ready to take the Heritage City into the solar energy world the introduction of Community Solar program.The program will offer solar energy to...
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Quo Vadis? The Free Shuttle Bus and a Transit Survey
BC Transit is asking community members to complete a survey, for a service review they are conducting. They want your input even if you are not a transit user at this time. Tourism Rossland is also...
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Market analysis a critical next step in better air service for Castlegar
A recent survey sent out to regional businesses by Vancouver-based consultancy Operations Economics Inc. via the Chamber of Commerce asking detailed questions about business use of local flights and...
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River Talk — Columbia River Treaty exhibit coming to Touchstones
Eileen Delehanty Pearkes has been researching and writing about the history and politics of water in the upper Columbia Basin since 2005. Her book on the Columbia River Treaty, A River Captured, is...
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Thinking About Paris: Roots of Terrorism
The next time any of us go out to a restaurant, to a sports event or to a music venue, will we be imagining what it would be like to be suddenly confronted by ISIL Jihadists shooting at us with...
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More Galleries Opening in Rossland for Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas
With 4 new art galleries/studios opening for Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas on December 5th in Rossland, the event is going to be an exciting day for artists and art patrons alike. Castlegar Source...
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BUSINESS FEATURE: Trail entrepreneur gets creative and branches out
A Trail entrepreneur is getting creative and diversifying to ensure her company’s success and keep her little part of the city’s downtown thriving.Lorraine Johnston opened the clothing store Sonsie on...
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A Climate Vigil in Rossland -- Outside the Library
A climate vigil is being organized outside the Rossland Public Library at 12:30 pm on Sunday, November 29 on the eve of the Paris UN climate summit by the West Kootenay EcoSociety Rossland team, in...
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Teck Trail to lose between 70 and 80 jobs in 2016, most via attrition
Trail will be losing between 70 and 80 jobs as Teck Cominco reduces its operating costs for 2016.In a press release issued Tuesday, Teck officials indicated a $650 million reduction in overall spending...
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Interested in the Cannabis Industry?
Marijuana: Anticipating Changes in LegislationA recent press release from the "Women Grow: Kootenay Chapter" says,"Are you interested in cultivating a career in the cannabis industry? Would you like...
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Butter Chicken for Charity -- at Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas in Rossland
A Rossland resident and business owner is pairing up with the KBRH Health Foundation to serve butter chicken for charity at this year’s Rekindle the Spirit of Christmas event on December 5th.Avtar...
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Despite common misperceptions, for-profit health care compatible with...
Based on the experiences of other countries, for-profit hospitals and insurers are compatible with universal health care, finds a new study released by the Fraser Institute, an independent,...
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No more lounge restrictions in B.C. restaurants
As part of the ongoing effort to cut red tape for small businesses in British Columbia, restaurants no longer have to provide a separate lounge area for customers who want to enjoy a cocktail.This...
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