Opinion

Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press Media.

FOREST INK: Beavers are more than felt hats – Part 1

Our consumption habits almost extinguished this remarkable dam builder and ecosystem modifier

  • Jun 25, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press Media.
David Zirnhelt writes a weekly column for Black Press newspapers throughout the Cariboo Chilcotin and North Thompson. (Black Press image)

RANCH MUSINGS: Seeking viability, along with happiness

Our behaviour, which is a real reflection of culture, needs to be founded in doing the right thing

  • Jun 18, 2023
David Zirnhelt writes a weekly column for Black Press newspapers throughout the Cariboo Chilcotin and North Thompson. (Black Press image)
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press newspapers throughout the Cariboo Chilcotin and North Thompson regions. (Black Press image)

FOREST INK: Successful tree planting in the Cariboo -Chilcotin

After noticing two large tree planting camps along Highway 20 during my…

  • Jun 18, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press newspapers throughout the Cariboo Chilcotin and North Thompson regions. (Black Press image)
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press.

FOREST INK: Earthworms good for gardens, maybe not some forests?

Earthworms are credited with improving the soil by aerating it and helping…

  • Jun 14, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for Black Press.
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)

RANCH MUSINGS: ‘Ever the optimist’ may be watchword

The winter season ends officially for ranchers when most of the cattle…

  • Jun 4, 2023
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)
(Steven Chang/BC Lions)

THE MOJ: Robinson’s time to shine

Lions’ receiver has breakthrough game in Regina

  • May 30, 2023
(Steven Chang/BC Lions)
Riding the loaded train was one of the fun activities at the Bella Coola Fall Fair fall 2022. (Photo submitted)

LETTER: Fall Fair train repair appreciated

Editor: The Bella Coola Fair Association would like to thank Albert’s Repair…

  • Apr 28, 2023
Riding the loaded train was one of the fun activities at the Bella Coola Fall Fair fall 2022. (Photo submitted)
A group of nurses and doctors, all members of the group Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health, rallied in front of Nelson City Hall in a demonstration to urge governments for action on climate change and environmental degradation. Photo: Bill Metcalfe

OUR PLANETARY HEALTH: Nurses have an ethical duty to advocate for climate justice

Why would nurses care about climate change? This is a question I…

  • Apr 28, 2023
A group of nurses and doctors, all members of the group Doctors and Nurses for Planetary Health, rallied in front of Nelson City Hall in a demonstration to urge governments for action on climate change and environmental degradation. Photo: Bill Metcalfe
Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham provides an update about fish farms in the province during a press conference in the press gallery at the Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday June 20, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

POPHAM: B.C.’s tourism industry poised for the travel season and return of visitors

As we celebrate Tourism Week in British Columbia, we recognize this industry,…

  • Apr 24, 2023
Minister of Agriculture Lana Popham provides an update about fish farms in the province during a press conference in the press gallery at the Legislature in Victoria, B.C., on Wednesday June 20, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito
Community members working in the community garden (provided by Julia Newbury)

Tips to give thanks and give back on Earth Day

Earth Day is on Saturday, April 22

Community members working in the community garden (provided by Julia Newbury)
Mike Barnes of Hayward smokes while dressed in a marijuana leaf suit during the 420 event at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on Friday, April 20, 2018. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner)

Are 4/20 events in B.C. influencing youth marijuana use?

Community outreach coordinator speaks on the dangers of teen drug use

Mike Barnes of Hayward smokes while dressed in a marijuana leaf suit during the 420 event at Hippie Hill in Golden Gate Park on Friday, April 20, 2018. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner)
Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)

Houston’s mayor makes pitch for economic assistance

The forestry-dependent community in northwestern B.C. is about to lose its major employer

  • Mar 15, 2023
Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)
Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)

Houston’s mayor makes pitch for economic assistance

The forestry-dependent community in northwestern B.C. is about to lose its major employer

Log yard at Canfor’s Houston sawmill which is closing in April 2023, idling more than 300 employees and many more in the trucking and logging sectors. (Angelique Houlihan photo/Houston Today)
March 8 is International Women’s Day. (Stock photo)

Men play a crucial role in celebrating International Women’s Day

Empowering women is crucial to global success

March 8 is International Women’s Day. (Stock photo)
FILE – The Ocean Cleanup project’s latest iteration of plastic-collecting technology, the System 002, will leave Victoria and heads to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Photo courtesy of the Ocean Cleanup/ Twitter)

OPINION: Court case could kill progress on plastic pollution in Canada

‘The world is beginning to act to reduce the plastic crisis’

  • Mar 6, 2023
FILE – The Ocean Cleanup project’s latest iteration of plastic-collecting technology, the System 002, will leave Victoria and heads to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. (Photo courtesy of the Ocean Cleanup/ Twitter)
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune. (File photo)

FOREST INK: Living with radiation

Chernobyl has been a much more serious case since the explosion and fire took place on the ground

  • Mar 4, 2023
Jim Hilton pens a column on forestry each week for the Williams Lake Tribune. (File photo)
FILE – Gisele Pageal (left), Human Rights Director of Communications Energy Paperworkers Union of Canada, and Barbara Byers, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress, announce their chocalate lip campaign at a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 to Members of Parliament regarding pay equity for women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson

LETTER: Coalition of 125+ B.C. groups call for pay equity legislation

‘We have paid a staggering price for government inaction,’ open letter says

  • Mar 2, 2023
FILE – Gisele Pageal (left), Human Rights Director of Communications Energy Paperworkers Union of Canada, and Barbara Byers, Executive Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress, announce their chocalate lip campaign at a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 to Members of Parliament regarding pay equity for women. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tom Hanson
As the cost of food continues to rise, grocery chains in Canada are reportedly making record profits. It’s time for the CEOs of these companies to explain themselves, says the federal New Democratic Party. (Unsplash photo)

OFF TOPIC: Bread or cake, the rising cost of food is giving me indigestion

How do grocery chain CEOs square skyrocketing prices with massive profits?

As the cost of food continues to rise, grocery chains in Canada are reportedly making record profits. It’s time for the CEOs of these companies to explain themselves, says the federal New Democratic Party. (Unsplash photo)
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks in Vancouver, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A B.C. First Nation and the provincial government have signed what’s being called a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

OPINION: Eby government faces clear choice in first budget

From 1999 to 2016, British Columbia was one of the most fiscally responsible provinces in Canada

  • Feb 24, 2023
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks in Vancouver, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2022. A B.C. First Nation and the provincial government have signed what’s being called a historic agreement towards jointly managing land, water and resource development. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)

RANCH MUSINGS: Where are cattle prices going?

Higher margin years such as we are in should leave us with retained earnings

  • Feb 19, 2023
Ranch Musings columnist David Zirnhelt. (File photo)