At the May 15 Committee of the Whole meeting, manufactured home park resident Matt Coté presented to Revelstoke city council. He’s concerned that the 18 manufactured home parks in Revelstoke will slowly be eliminated, and residents displaced. The city in 2023 adopted the Manufactured Home Park Redevelopment, Residential Tenant Protection and Strata Conversion policy. The […]
Today I talk about satellites, fibre optic cables and internet sovereignty in rural Canada and in general. And play a morning song requested by Chandler: In Loving Memory by the Gabriels. Send me your favourite songs to listen to in the morning, and I’ll play them on The News Show. meagan@stokefm.com
The city of Revelstoke hosted an Emergency Preparedness Town Hall meeting on May 6 where eight officials told the room what they are doing to prepare for emergencies. There were over 30 people there in person, and 49 people streamed the meeting online. After the presentation people had a chance to ask questions. Listen to […]
Join me as I tell Scott about a tour I took of Revelstoke’s forthcoming golf course: Cabot Pacific. Bradley Allen, the superintendent of the course, took me around the rough dirt tracks in his white truck, showing me his favourite spots. Allen wasn’t comfortable having me record him at all so unfortunately it’s not the […]
Here I tell you what to look forward to in the weeks ahead – a story about Starlink and efforts to bulk up Canada’s telecommunication infrastructure. And one about Cabot Pacific, the golf course going in below the ski hill. I also talk about this Canadaland episode, Larry of the North: 70 years of Arctic […]
Listen to Revelstoke’s five candidates running for the federal election: Phaedra Idzan for NDP, Mel Arnold for Conservative, Michael Henry for the People’s Party of Canada, Ken Robertson for the Liberals and Owen Madden for the Green Party. Canada’s general federal election is coming up on April 28. The polling station is at the Revelstoke […]
The Settlement Services program at the college here in Revelstoke helped new immigrants get oriented in town. It connected them with services, provided language classes, and helped the new community members integrate. It’s been around for the last 20 years, and the program ended on March 31. The program had been funded by the federal […]
Today’s episode is an audio tour of the Downie Selkirk Mill in Revelstoke. The mill takes up a chunk of prime real estate in town, tucked against the river at the bottom of Southside. Over 200 people work there, making it one of Revelstoke’s largest single employers. The Gormon Group of companies owns Downie Selkirk […]
This week we hear a recording of B.C. Minister Responsible for the Columbia River Treaty, Adrian Dix. He spoke on Tuesday, Mar. 25 about the status of the Columbia River Treaty. Click here for a link to the entire information session. I also talk about the federal election: Revelstoke is in a new riding called […]
All about the Columbia River Treaty. We hear from Barbara Cosens, a professor of law at Idaho State University; Linda Worley, Chair of the Columbia River Treaty Local Government Committee, and Hannah Griffin, a resident of Revelstoke who spent months alone in her yellow canoe, attempting to travel the length of the mighty river. The […]