Book Review By Derryll White Crimethinc Ex-Workers’ Collective (2011). Work. If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it…
Naturalists presentation for newcomers
By Jenna Madsen As part of the Welcoming Communities project, the Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy and the Cranbrook Public Library have teamed up to…
Public should know when someone could be a threat to children
By David Wilks, Kootenay-Columbia MP Our government recently introduced Bill C-26, which will bring tougher sanctions against those who prey on our most vulnerable, our…
Opposition results in Premier’s about-face on patronage appointment
MLA Report By Norm Macdonald, Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Last week, as I began to think of what I would say in my next MLA report,…
3 facts you need to know
… About changes to the Park Act By Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett 1. Government is amending the Park Act to allow a variety of…
Obituary for Bernadette Vanderhaeghe
Bernadette Zoe Vanderhaeghe August 18, 1938 – March 2, 2014 Born in Rekkem, Belgium, the third of ten children, Bernadette was the oldest of eight…
CVCF seeks applications for Arnold Ellis youth fund
Arnold Ellis, a long-term resident of the Columbia Valley, provided a generous bequest to the young people of the Columbia Valley, through the Columbia Valley…
Recognition of heart disease in B.C. firefighters restored
The Government of British Columbia yesterday tabled legislation under the Workers Compensation Act to restore heart disease in firefighters as a presumptive disease recognized by…
City pleased with early response to urban deer survey
Nearly five days since the urban deer resident survey was made available to residents of the City of Cranbrook, staff is pleased with the public…
Partisan differences transcended by US Flathead Bill
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill March 4 that formally withdraws the federally-owned portion of Montana’s Flathead River watershed from future oil and…