Renos a sign of housing markets maintaining across Canada
An estimated 1.7 million households in 10 major centres undertook renovations in 2011 according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC’s) Renovation and Home Purchase Survey released today. This represents about 37 per cent of homeowner households, a slight decrease from 42 per cent, or 1.9 million households, in...
Watch out invasive plants, as weed control continues across the Boundary
The war on invasive plants continues as funding for Boundary regional programs keeps the weed management programs operative. The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) and the Boundary Weed Management Committee received confirmation of funding for 2012 from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations...
Mene. Mene. Tekel. Upharsin.
The words that title my piece are biblical and mean, roughly, “number, number, weight, division.” They are apt to this moment. I believe that numbers, judgment, and a state of feeling divided, are clues to our malaise as Canadians right now. To say that Stephen Harper divides Canadians like no other prime minister before him...
Taylor puts marijuana back on the table at city council
A challenge to step up leadership was given to Grand Forks city council when mayor Brian Taylor asked them to join the campaign to end the prohibition of marijuana in Canada. Taylor wants council to join in with the other B.C. municipalities, now over 13 of a possible 160 and growing, in the Stop the Violence campaign. The ...
Stand up Canada
“We become civilized only by knowing what to refrain from doing.” – Nassim Taleb We have been warned. The Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline will change Canada as we know it; it is a path to a future Canada that will be an undemocratic petro state. That was the message delivered Wednesday (May 30) by award-winning author...
Relay for Life this weekend in the Boundary
Local relay racers are stretching their legs and their efforts to raise as much money as possible before the annual Canadian Cancer Society's Boundary Country 2012 Relay for Life event set for Saturday, June 2. From 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. the 17 teams and 128 participants will be cutting laps around the James Donaldson Park in ...
Waste not, want not new motto for Grand Forks
When it comes to talking trash Grand Forks city council has taken the topic to heart with the expansion of the organics recycling program for the entire city by October of this year. Started in January of this year, the Val Mar area of the city with 128 homes has had the green bin pilot project for food waste collection...
Grand Forks parents have mixed feelings on proposed Middle School
Discussions for a proposed middle school were nearly as polarized as the deer issue in Grand Forks during the second School District 51 public forum held at Dr. D.A. Perley Elementary School, Wednesday, May 23. The meeting attracted more than 100 parents, grandparents and teachers who were both for and against the proposed ...
Christina Lake annual Cleanup Day good clean fun
More than 48 volunteers removed truck loads of garbage from Christina Lake streets during the 12th annual Christina Lake Cleanup Day on Saturday, May 26. Not only did the group of volunteers, which included everyone from four to 75 years-old, clean up along the main highway frontage, but they also went through the Ponderosa...
Concerned Citizens dissatisfied with IHA response to local issues
Nine members of the Concerned Citizens for Community Health Care (CCCHC) got their moment with the Interior Health Authority (IHA) during a small public meeting in the Boundary Hospital Board Room at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, May 23. A group of more than 40 Boundary residents from as far away as Midway gathered at the front of the...
