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 […]
You know when you stumble into a dark spruce forest on a steep hill, and lichen drips off the branches? That’s caribou country. Caribou used to migrate all over these mountains. Now the Columbia South herd is extinct, and the Frisby-Boulder herd is functionally extirpated. The Columbia North herd, is actually growing. Scientists recently published […]
Nick Arkle is the CEO of the Gormon Group which owns Lumby Pole, Canoe Forest Products, Oroville Reman and Reload, and Downie Timber. Here’s our conversation about the current status of the trade war between Canada and US, and how his company is responding.
Since 1961 an agreement between Canada and the US has governed use of the Columbia River. The two countries have been renegotiating that agreement … until recently. Because of Donald Trump, negotiations are on hold. There will be a public information session about this on March 25. Follow this link for more information and to […]
The theme of today’s show is, Crisis is Opportunity. That was the message coming out of a luncheon hosted this week by the Revelstoke Chamber of Commerce that I attended. Present was Michael Hoher, who advises business owners on exporting their products. On the show I talk about this lunch, and we get another update […]