CARTOON: Harper rolling out the welcome mat for China
Check out this new cartoon from Gerry Hummel highlighting the push to open up BC and Alberta's fossil fuel resources to emerging Asian markets like China. In recent months both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Resources Minister Joe Oliver have told Canadians and leaders on the world's stage that the Enbridge Northern ...
Over 100 Teachers and CUPE members rally at Gyro Park
More than 100 teachers, Canadian Union of Public Employees members, parents and even children gathered in Gyro Park, Grand Forks, to support the teachers's strike and protest against Bill 22, which will impose on the teachers's rights to negotiate a contract. The large and enthusiastic group marched into the park at noon on...
Rally in Grand Forks on Tuesday, March 6
A rally supporting the teachers's strike will be held in Gyro Park, Grand Forks, tomorrow, Tuesday, March 6 at noon. Similiar rallies will be held on the same day and time across the province including one scheduled for the provincial legislature in Victoria. The event is being sponsored by the Canadian Union of Public Employees...
Milfoil top topic at Area C town hall meeting
Milfoil removal, riparian efforts, library funding, a seniors housing project, the Phoenix Ski Hill contributions and the woodstove exchange program were all discussed constructively at the Regional District Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) Area C Town Hall meeting on Wednesday, February 29. The annual budget information session was...
Government forces teachers to walk out
All B.C. teachers will be out on the streets and not in their classrooms as they strike over the next three days -- Monday, March 5, Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7 -- in protest of Bill 22 imposed by the government late last week. All School District 51 schools will be closed over those three days and buses will not...
Boundary teachers strike next week
School is out Monday, March 5, Tuesday, March 6 and Wednesday, March 7 in Boundary School District 51 after teachers voted province-wide to strike. On Tuesday, Feb. 28 and Wednesday, Feb. 29, 27,946 of the province's 41,000 public school teachers voted 87 per cent in favour of striking in protest of the B.C. Government's...
Canada supports the dark side of international finance
You can say one thing for the powers that be in the banking industry. They’ve got a lot of nerve. This past week our own finance minister Jim Flaherty, along with Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, came out strongly in opposition to a modest proposal to regulate the US banking system. Their interventions followed...
Bahraini ‘reformers’ in Washington, courtesy of American spinmeisters
By Justin Elliot in ProPublica. Earlier this month, a group of three young Bahrainis arrived in Washington to talk about reform in the small Persian Gulf nation, which has been rocked by Arab Spring protests for the last year. The delegation, including an NGO worker and a tech entrepreneur, both Western-educated, represented...
Local teachers protest possible legislated contract
About 30 School District 51 teachers marched along Central Avenue in Grand Forks after school Monday, Feb. 27 to protest the B.C. Government's proposal to legislate a contract after nearly a year of failed negotiations. Local teachers bounced homemade placards, which included comments like "Kid's Matter, Teachers Care" and ...
POLICE BEAT: Horse shot, police looking for suspects
A horse was shot on a rural property at the corner of Almond Gardens Road and Spragett Road in Grand Forks, Sunday, Feb. 26. Police were called out to the property at 12:59 p.m. where they found an 11 year-old Arabian Cross shot in the chest and neck area with what appears to be a single high calibre bullet, said Grand Forks...
