No one wants to raise taxes
By Laura Keil “No one wants to raise taxes.” This was repeated by Council members at last week’s Council meeting where Council unanimously agreed to raise water and sewer rates by 8.5%. I’m going to […]
Opinion
Fragmentation: The Tribalisation of Politics
By Gwynne Dyer In most democratic countries economic self-interest is no longer driving voters’ choices. Tribalism is taking its place, and that is not an improvement. Take three quite different countries, all unable to get […]
Modern Journalism: The Golden Age of the Fair Trial
By Andru McCracken We live in an age where many communities are underserved by journalists. In some, no working journalists cover events in that community. In Prince George, the ‘northern capital,’ there isn’t a daily […]
Room for everybody
By Andru McCracken They take up the most space and time on social media, they dominate my personal Facebook experience and if you would just listen and do a little research on your own you […]
Editorial: Let’s burn it right
By Andru McCracken Valemount Village Council has asked staff to draft a clean air bylaw at the request of the Clean Air Task Force. It’s a good step, and just one in a suite of […]
Empathy, I’ve got a little
By Andru McCracken Like any corporation, the McBride Community Forest Corporation has a lot to balance. But the McBride Community Forest Corporation is much much more than just a corporation. Clawing itself back from years […]
The Catalan Dilemma
By Gwynne Dyer The demonstrations, some of them violent, are still going on in Catalonia a week after Spain’s Supreme Court sentenced nine separatist leaders to between nine and thirteen years in prison for sedition. […]
Too much cash a grave concern
By Andru McCracken The Columbia Basin Trust has so much money to disperse in Valemount that it’s causing problems in Castlegar. You don’t know about this? It’s true. Every year the Columbia Basin Trust has […]
Leaders debate blues
By Andru McCracken Finishing most of my work early on Monday afternoon (the Rocky Mountain Goat’s dreaded deadline day), I burst out of the office delighted I would be in time to stream the leader’s […]
A climate crisis: Stop feeling guilty
By Andru McCracken When we talk about the climate crisis we need to acknowledge feelings. A piece of the puzzle that I have ignored until now is guilt, but watching Greta Thunberg excoriate leaders at […]