Opinion – Page 2 – The Rocky Mountain Goat News

Vaughn Palmer and his mountain caribou dairy

August 10, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken It is a frustrating time to be a bystander in a provincial conversation about forestry, jobs and caribou. Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer has written his tenth column about a provincial effort […]

The Real Refugee Problem

August 5, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Gwynne Dyer The image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, fleeing from the Syrian civil war, dead face down on a Turkish beach in 2015, triggered a wave of sympathy that ended with Germany opening its […]

Standing in the ashes of forestry

July 27, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken The board of the Valemount Community Forest (also the board of the Valemount Industrial Park) have purchased a mill and have the intention of running it. It is wonderful news for our […]

Global thoughts: Uniquely Dysfunctional and Divided

July 23, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Gwynne Dyer Iran has “begun its march…towards nuclear weaponry,” said Israel’s energy minister Yuval Steinitz, and that is technically correct. Only one year and sixty days after President Donald Trump ripped up the treaty […]

A battle won, the next in view

July 20, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken This week we learned that Carrier Lumber will not aerially spray broadleaf herbicide in the Robson Valley. The CEO of Carrier pointed to letters from our community as being a driver in […]

Global Thoughts: Magnetic Reversal: No Panic

July 15, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Gwynne Dyer For a moment there I thought we had a new global threat to deal with. This would have been welcome from a journalistic point of view, since there is a constant need […]

Is there a rainbow under there?

July 13, 2019 The Goat

By Andru McCracken When I moved to Valemount, I expected to walk into a small town like the ones I grew up in. People are a touch close minded, cold to newcomers, fearful of change, […]

Time for mountain bikers to take a page from snowsports

July 11, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken Last week we learned that a woman broke her spine during Valemount’s Annual Bikefest. She survived, but she and her family are still waiting to see the extent of the injuries at […]

Global Thoughts: Monsoons

July 7, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Gwynne Dyer The monsoon rains are finally arriving in central and northern India, but they are two weeks late. It started raining in Mumbai on Monday, and it should be raining in Delhi by […]

The conflicting nature of journalism

June 29, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Andru McCracken If you enjoy conflict as part of your work, you should consider journalism. It’s a rewarding career that many people feel makes the world a better place, but it’s especially great if […]

Global Thoughts: Iran’s game

June 24, 2019 Arthur Tanga

By Gwynne Dyer The ‘evidence’ is not conclusive, but Iran probably was behind the attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf last month and two more last Thursday. Nobody was hurt, so what was […]