Opinion

Last Friday, Oct.17, marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. It was a busy day for the world — there was Ebola on U.S.

Beneath us, a flash of crimson. Then another, and another. Soon it's a constant stream; thousands upon thousands of red bodies flow past, nose-to-tail, an undulating linear mass so coherent it resembles an underwater current.

The price of oil will hit its floor and it will rise again," President Nicolas Maduro assured Venezuelans, whose shaky economy depends critically on a high oil price. "Venezuela will continue with its social plans. Venezuela will move forward.

DES issue continues to heat up My wife and I recently purchased a unit in The Rise at Cheakamus Crossing.

Call him the "Snake Whisperer" if you'd like (some do), and it's true they seem calmer in his presence, but Ryan Lewis sees his work with the City of Lethbridge's rapidly disappearing Prairie rattlesnakes as more educational than vocational.

With the close of the nomination period last Friday voters can finally begin to assess the candidates for the next Whistler council.

Canadians expect to have our environment protected, and to know how it's being protected. A report from Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development shows we're being short-changed.

To nobody's great surprise, Bolivia's President Evo Morales has won a third five-year term by a landslide majority. It's no surprise because Bolivia's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has tripled since he took office in 2006.

As we see Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror for another year perhaps we should pause for longer than a day and think about all the many things we are grateful for.

In these days of scary, unregulated pesticide use, and the disappearance of many animal species important to ecosystem health, it's refreshing to find a commercial business devoted to both sustainable farming and the support of surrounding ecosystems