What is behind the census numbers?
What is behind the census numbers? February 24, 2012 Even though we all live on a finite planet with finite resources, our economy is fuelled by growth that is ultimately based on population. The...
View Article2012 Federal budget is a travesty
My letter to the editors: The 2012 federal budget is a travesty, as it will boost the profits for the one percent and the big resource industries, while it is a disaster for the rest of us. It is an...
View ArticleCanada’s growing democratic deficit
Our democracy is going down the tube in Canada as best evidenced by the fact that the polls show two thirds of Canadians are progressive, yet we are now being ruled with an iron fist by the...
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An economic development plan for Salmon Arm
Graphs courtesy of Footwork Consulting (David Foot) There is no doubt that a great deal of effort went into producing the Salmon Arm Economic Development Society’s (SAEDS) 5-year Economic Development...
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More creative economic development ideas
The multiple economic benefits that could be achieved by paying better attention to changing demographics was the focus of the last column and this strategy has been at the center of University of...
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High school woodlot forestry program a success
There are just two high schools in British Columbia that manage their own woodlot and one of them is in the Shuswap. Charles Bloom Secondary in Lumby has run a forestry trade program since the 1970s...
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Mining the Shuswap
Enderby Coal Mine, circa 1905, photo courtesy of the Enderby Museum & Archives With all the attention currently in British Columbia directed to mining, one might wonder if there will be renewed...
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Mining the Shuswap, part two
1862 map showing trail location to the Columbia No discussion of mining in the Shuswap would be complete without a review of the early Cherry Creek gold rush and the succeeding years of both placer and...
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A strategy to improve Shuswap food security
Agriculture has long been part of the Shuswap’s heritage, one of Silver Creek’s many old farmhouses Local supermarket shelves overflow with food, but given the projected impacts of climate change this...
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Shuswap’s only tailings dam
With the valuable ore removed, all that is left in the Samatosum mine’s open pit is rusty, acidic water Given the elevated concerns about mine tailings after the Mt. Polley disaster, I recently took...
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Assessing the local impact of increasing inequality
There is a line-up at this Salvation Army food bank every morning Recently our local CBC Radio West provided coverage of the new Oxfam report on income inequality that the 85 richest are nearly...
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A closer look at poverty in the Shuswap
In addition to the fact that the “trickle down” effect from the bulging one percent economic theory does not work, other factors are resulting in what the indicators show to be an increasing level of...
View ArticleCanada’s growing democratic deficit
Our democracy is going down the tube in Canada as best evidenced by the fact that the polls show two thirds of Canadians are progressive, yet we are now being ruled with an iron fist by the...
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An economic development plan for Salmon Arm
Graphs courtesy of Footwork Consulting (David Foot) There is no doubt that a great deal of effort went into producing the Salmon Arm Economic Development Society’s (SAEDS) 5-year Economic Development...
View Article2012 Federal budget is a travesty
My letter to the editors: The 2012 federal budget is a travesty, as it will boost the profits for the one percent and the big resource industries, while it is a disaster for the rest of us. It is an...
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Finding solutions to the housing shortage
Frank Bugala addresses the workshop group, photo by Fred Bird Every year a group of key Shuswap “movers and shakers” come together under the auspices of the group Plan B:E to discuss sustainable...
View ArticleWhat is behind the census numbers?
What is behind the census numbers? February 24, 2012 Even though we all live on a finite planet with finite resources, our economy is fuelled by growth that is ultimately based on population. The...
View Article2012 Federal budget is a travesty
My letter to the editors: The 2012 federal budget is a travesty, as it will boost the profits for the one percent and the big resource industries, while it is a disaster for the rest of us. It is an...
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What will be the jobs of the future?
Will there be fishing jobs like this work during the Adams River salmon run in 2010? There is a project underway to better understand the local labour market with the goal to bolster employment...
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Back to the land in the 21st century
There is a slowly growing movement back to the land, as more twenty and thirty year-olds move to the country and take up farming. I recently visited Spotted Moose Farm in the hills above Celista, where...
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