Opinion

By Andru McCracken It is always great to find common ground. COVID-19 has me finding common ground with a group I don’t normally have time for: Doomsday preppers. Instead of calling me names (like sheeple) […]

By Andru McCracken Since we last published on March 12th the world has been turned upside down. Daily, sometimes hourly, new ordinances declare what we can and cannot do. Remarkably, we comply, even if it […]

By Andru McCracken If the process for handing out money at Columbia Basin Trust’s Community Initiatives and Affected Areas Program doesn’t strike you as unfocussed, you aren’t paying attention. I attended Sunday’s packed event and […]

By Andru McCracken I spent a day cat skiing with a group of men from Edmonton and Calgary on Mica Mountain – we got to know each other as the snow cat made its way […]

By Andru McCracken, I’ve met some very wild people in my day, but none more wild than these low elevation folks. A friend and I once hiked up a mountainside more steep than we could […]

By Andru McCracken I was interviewing a new resident last week when he hit me across the head with a rich new phrase: the valley of the broken toys. I was so struck by it, […]

By Andru McCracken Thanks to a new initiative funded by the Canadian government, the Goat will soon have a journalist based in Victoria. It is an exciting time. This journalist will focus on what provincial […]

By Andru McCracken This weekend marked the departure of Naomi Balla-Boudreau, McBride’s revolutionary librarian. Naomi played an integral role in moving the community’s library from a rundown leaky undersized facility to a spacious bright building […]

By Andru McCracken There is still no news on Valemount’s big resort. So what now? I keep thinking we’re lucky a developer didn’t offer to build a bomber bike park in Valemount in 2010. If […]

By Andru McCracken Creating useful and valuable things out of the trees that surround us: That is who we are as a community. It’s not just a thing we have done in the past: it’s […]