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With the carrot being stability in schools come September, the BC Teachers' Federation is holding out the stick of teachers' job action in a bid to speed up provincial contract negotiations.

"I have lived in more places than I can remember, and as a place for a writer to be based, I have never found one that is remotely as satisfactory as Rossland," Jordan said.

Premier Christy Clark took her seat in the B.C. legislature Monday, to square off with the NDP opposition for the first time since being selected as leader of the B.C. Liberal Party.

Rossland’s status as a “resort municipality” may be in jeopardy as the province demands paperwork from all resort municipalities to show increases in tourism with the provincial funding to achieve the goal of a doubling in tourism by 2015.

Brogan Pastro of the Interact Club addressed council on Tuesday night to propose that the club take on a trail building project in June, specifically to construct a large portion of one of two trails in the Active Transportation Plan (ATP) prepared by Stewart Spooner in 2009.

The annual tax bylaws were approved by council and by now most residents will have received their tax bill, but approximately half of our taxes aren’t controlled by city council.