Credit union supports regional chamber initiative recommended by Selkirk's innovation chair
An announcement by the Grand Forks District Credit Union (GFCU) was an upbeat ending to a presentation about the state of the economy in the Boundary region. George Penfold, regional innovation chair for Selkirk College, was at Community Futures Boundary last week to give his vision for economic opportunities, along with MLA...
DOBBIN: Canadian politics needs a game-changer
As we head into a new political season it looks depressingly like the old: a stand-off between the malignant minority government of Stephen Harper and the seriously diminished Liberal Party and its hapless leader Michael Ignatieff. Both these parties and their leaders are so off the mark in terms of what Canadians want and...
SUMMING IT UP: Grand Forks City Council
Grand Forks City Council worked their way through a full agenda at their last meeting including a presentation from the Granby Wilderness Society, a proposal for an environmental committee, air quality, installation of solar heating, and the final reading of the wood burning bylaw. Wildlife tree stewardship agreement Jenny...
Grand Forks council funds railway study
Due diligence and the need for quality information were the themes underlying Grand Forks city council’s decision to move forward with a developing a business case for the Kettle Falls International Railway. The information that will be put together for council, they hope, will guide their future decisions about the railway...
Electoral Officer’s Ruling MUST Be Challenged
The decision by B.C.’s “Acting” Chief Electoral Officer Craig James to stall the anti-HST petition until court cases are dealt with MUST be challenged in court. I believe he’s wrong; he made a mistake; he went far beyond his proper role in validating a petition. He has in effect destroyed B.C.’s democratic petition legislation,...
Railway in crisis: public opinion sought
Businesses in Grand Forks are looking to the city to rescue the Kettle Falls railway – it’s a question of survival. A recent presentation from the stakeholder group to the City of Grand Forks proposed that the solution would be for the city to either purchase the line, or invest in the needed infrastructure upgrades, or...
City council says no to playing field - again I Question of the week
Presentations made by the members of the public took council to task over their lack of decision over the proposed multi-use playing field in City Park. Over 30 people crammed into Grand Forks City Council chambers on Monday night, July 19 to push the politicians to take a stand. In council’s last meeting a tied vote negated...
A CLOSER LOOK: the questionable cost of America's spy games
By Stephen Engelberg, ProPublicaThere's nothing like a spy story to get the journalistic juices flowing. They have all the elements. High stakes. Betrayal. And, if you're lucky, sexual intrigue. The true import of spy stories is more difficult for readers to weigh. The facts are invariably spooned out by intelligence agencies...
Regional chamber gets financial backing of City of Grand Forks
With the solid funding support from the City of Grand Forks and Community Futures Boundary (CFB), a regional chamber of commerce vision is in the works. On June 28 Grand Forks City Council approved $10,000 from their 2009 surplus funds to match the same contribution from CFB for a steering committee of representatives from ...
DOBBIN: Harper's G20 victory is to shrink Canada
Is the world, including Canada, headed for the third great depression, as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman argues? Watching the results of the G8/G20 meetings was like hearing news that a giant comet is heading for earth and we are just waiting for impact. Those meetings of the world's largest and/or growing...
