Youth employment program ready for intakes
The Boundary Youth Success Program is seeking 10 new participants to develop employment skills in a 14 week course starting Jan. 23. For youth ages 15-30 facing difficulties getting work, the session offers an array of life skills, training, certification and employability skills helping youth to enter the workforce, return...
Province increases homeowner grants threshold
British Columbians who own homes worth up to $1.285 million may be eligible to receive the entire homeowners’ grant this year, after the Province raised the threshold to accommodate rising property values. BC Assessment estimates the value of all homes based on their market value on July 1 each year. The Province then reviews...
One man dead after avalanche in back country
A skier triggered avalanche left one man dead in Revelstoke, B.C. on Friday as a group of heli-skiers took to the backcountry.Ronald Gregory Sheardown, age 45, from Dubaï, a former Canadian from Stouffville, Ontario, was the victim of the heli-skiing avalanche on Friday, Dec. 30.Shearman was with a group of eleven skiers and...
STI testing clinic closure unacceptable for Grand Forks
As of today, Friday Dec. 30, the Grand Forks public health unit will no longer be testing new patients for sexually transmitted infections (STI) or HIV leaving a serious service gap for youth and marginalized individuals. The announcement came on Nov. 29 from Interior Health Authority (IHA) and will affect five STI clinics...
Oh, Canada’s become a home for record fracking
By Nicholas Kuznetz in ProPublica.Early last year, deep in the forests of northern British Columbia, workers for Apache Corp. performed what the company proclaimed was the biggest hydraulic fracturing operation ever. The project used 259 million gallons of water and 50,000 tons of sand to frack 16 gas wells side by side. It...
Armenian and Greek clergy clash at Christmas
Armenian and Greek priests have once again clashed, but this time at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem, much to the astonishment and amusement of social media users worldwide. Apparently stemming from a dispute over which priests would clean which part of the church, such brawls are nothing new. In November 2008, for...
US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council plans Orwellian transportation pact
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of three articles by Nelle Maxey examining the wide-ranging ramifications for the Canadian public, economy and environment of the new Canada-US Border Security Deal and its ancillary agreements. With my first article on this topic I set the background for Canada's new trade deal with the US...
Selkirk College recycling program celebrates 20 years of keeping it green
Selkirk College’s Recycling Department is celebrating 20 years of making the college a greener place to work.Established in 1991, the Recycling Department is run by the Kootenay Society for Community Living, a regional organization that provides support services for a range of people in communities throughout the Kootenays.When...
Emergency shelter operations seeks graphic design
Imagine a cold winters night, the wind is blowing and snow is flying and you are hungry and homeless, desperately searching for a place to sleep, out of the cold. This is not Toronto or Detroit; this happens in Grand Forks almost every night in winter. The Boundary Emergency and Transitional Housing Society (BETHS) is now...
Local provincial NDP candidate supports equality through modest means
Leader Adrian Dix told the BC New Democratic Party’s (NDP) 50th anniversary convention that inequality is the defining issue of our time and outlined the NDP’s priorities for when it forms government in 2013.“We have to address inequality by getting the fundamentals of our society and economy right, like education and training...
