Visitors to the Boundary Museum will soon be able to go Dashing through the snow in a one horse open sleigh – at least in their minds – thanks to a generous donation by Merv Hartman of Greenwood. Hartman donated a McLaughlin one-horse sleigh to the museum after seeing how well the Boundary Woodworkers Guild restored their...

Canada and B.C. targeted funding to support business development, innovation, food safety, and sustainability under the Growing Forward agreement in the first quarter of 2012-13. Growing Forward is a five-year framework that co-ordinates federal, provincial and territorial agricultural policy. Between April 1 and June 30,...

Black Lotus Communications, which "prevents malicious traffic from reaching" websites, such as a Denial-of-service attack (DDoS), has announced their decision to donate revenue made from the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) to charity. The company has confirmed their intentions in a statement to Wikinews. "We have received...

Having just returned from a trip across the continent to visit family, I must admit that the Christmas holiday season is a time of year that raises conflicting emotions for me. Having spent the last week in New York, immersed in mourning the loss of young children in a senseless crime, the gun control debate and whether their...

The Scriptures of the Christian Church tell us that the birth of the baby in the manger at Bethlehem came at the end of one era, and the beginning of another. In Luke's Gospel, the Angel Gabriel visits first not Mary, nor Joseph, but one Zechariah, a priest of the temple of Yahweh, and his wife, Elizabeth, a descendant of...

The Frontier Centre for Public Policy recently released a policy study examining the system for testing organic products – or the lack thereof – in Canada. Authors Mischa Popoff and Patrick Moore drop the bomb on organic certification in Canada by revealing that organic crops are not systematically tested by the Canadian Food...

Hackers claiming to be associated with the internet activist group Anonymous have attacked the website belonging to the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) and hacked into the Twitter account belonging to Shirley Phelps-Roper, the Church's spokeswoman. The attacks are part of an operation dubbed '#OpWestBor' on Twitter and is in ...

This photo by Jonathan Provencal on Dec. 16 confirms that the animal whose den is under the Motherlode ski lift on Granite Mountain's Links' Line is, in fact, a female wolverine. “I was suspicious about the tracks,” Provencal said, referring to the widely held opinion that it was a lynx’s den. “They didn’t look like lynx...

A $2,000 government grant will give the Phoenix Mountain Ski Racers an extra leg up this ski season and the start of a new ski-cross training area at Phoenix Ski Hill. Late last month the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development granted the organization with $2,000 through the Local Sport Development Fund, which...

The annual Community Christmas dinner will be hosted once again this year at the Gospel Chapel. At the recent meeting of the Community Christmas Dinner organizing group, RDKB Area D Director Irene Perepolkin presented a cheque for $1000.00 to the Donation Coordinators Sharon Fausten and Anya Soroka for the 2012 Community...