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In Support of Local Business
(Open letter to Gary Omand of Sodastream)Hello, Gary: Rossland Telegraph read more
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More Grant Applications Needed -- For Community Economic Development
A local group has spent more than half of $600,000 allocated to meet community needs in the Lower Columbia, but is still looking for more economic development projects to support.Economic and tourism...
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With federal transfers at all-time high, provinces can’t blame Ottawa for a...
Federal transfers to the provinces and territories are at an all-time high, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think tank....
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Burning cleaner — Wood Stove Exchange Program benefits communities
As winter’s cold embrace descends upon B.C., the Ministry of Environment is providing over $190,000 to 13 communities and regional districts as part of the Provincial Wood Stove Exchange Program.Since...
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Corporate tax hikes ultimately reduce the wages of Canadian workers
Increasing corporate tax rates results in lower average wages for workers, finds a new study, released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian public policy think-tank....
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ICBC releases Hall of Shame winners for 2015
You can't dream up some of these stories as ICBC released its Hall of Shame for 2015.From a man who torches his vehicle then claims it was stolen to a woman embellishing the extent of her injuries to...
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Slumping volume leads to job cuts at Canadian Pacific Railway
Slumping shipping volumes has forced Canadian Pacific Railway to cut 1,000 positions in the coming year.Many of the cuts, coming in union and management positions, will be done through attrition by the...
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OPINION: How Will Trudeau Act on the TPP?
Will Trudeau Take a Neo-Keynesian Approach?Place your bets. Will Justin Trudeau and his economic advisors choose a neo-Keynesian approach to the growing economic disaster facing the country or will it...
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Black Press closes doors on Nanaimo Daily News
A few days after Postmedia Network Canada Corp. announced cuts to editorial staff across Canada, Black Press closed the doors on the 141-year-old Nanaimo Daily News Friday.“Black Press informed...
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Another Success for Rossland's ThoughtExchange
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COLUMN: From the Hill; Pipelines are a Hot Topic. An analysis.
Pipelines are a hot topic in Ottawa and across the country these days. Last Wednesday the Liberals outlined their plans for a revised environmental assessment process for pipelines, and on Thursday...
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OPINION: TPP -- Forfeiting Our Health and Sovereignty?
Are Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland's officials misleading her about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)?Freeland signed the agreement Thursday in New Zealand, but repeated her assurances that critics...
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ICBC’s Hall of Shame: Cyber Fraud Files of 2015
Some things people just can't make up.The Insurance Corporation of BC (ICBC) has released its Cyber Files Wall of Shame for 2015.It goes from a woman too hurt to go to work yet finds time for roller...
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What's good for the B.C. Liberals may not be good for B.C. Hydro
One of the last things anyone would ever imagine the B.C. government doing is adopting an old NDP program, but that's exactly what Energy and Mines minister Bill Bennett did this month when he...
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Want Lower Property Taxes? So What do You Want to Give Up? The Arena? Get...
Recreation alone eats up 20% of Rossland's annual expenses.The City has options to consider for keeping taxes from rising too fast, but there are residents who won't like them. Some people will be...
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Spending to Blame for Ontario's Chronic Deficits and Massive Debt — Not a...
Government spending -- not slumping revenues -- is responsible for Ontario's chronic budget deficits, finds a new study released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan Canadian...
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More B.C. wine coming to grocery store shelves
Grocery stores will have the chance to bid on six opportunities to apply for a licence to sell 100 percent B.C. wine, cider and sake off grocery store shelves the BC government announced.The right to...
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OPINION: BC Budget Critique; How Does BC Compare?
Petty. One word that springs to mind after last week's B.C. budget.At best, it's a lip service budget. Tweak here, tweak there, but devoid of any real purpose.To be sure, some were tossed a chicken...
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Women Grow Kootenay
Women Grow: Kootenay Region Chapter held its inaugural event in Nelson on January 7th of this year– an event that brought in an all-encompassing crowd: women, men, younger folk, older folk, locals and...
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Penticton's Got Game — 2016 BC Winter Games Welcomes 1,200 athletes
Ready . . . set . . .British Columbia’s best young athletes, along with their coaches and officials have gathered in the City of Penticton for the 2016 BC Winter Games.More than 1,200 athletes will...
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