Inthekoots: The Kootenay Network

MLA Michelle Mungall will be hosting Surrey-Fleetwood MLA Jagrup Brar for a panel discussion that focuses on his experience doing the MLA Welfare Challenge where he lived on BC’s welfare rates this past January. Wednesday April 11 at Nelson’s Self Design High, Mungall will be interviewing Brar along with three local anti-poverty experts from our [...]

MLA Michelle Mungall honoured the life of Will Schooler and the growing “I Will” campaign in the Legislature Tuesday. The ‘I WILL’ campaign, started by friends and family of recently deceased, Will Schooler, encourages snowboarders and skiers to make the commitment to wearing their helmets. Schooler died late 2011 after sustaining a head injury while [...]

http://bcndpcaucus.ca KELOWNA – As students across Canada stand together to call for a well-funded, high-quality, public post secondary education system, New Democrats are calling on the B.C. Liberal government to reinstate needs-based student grants.“Ten years of tuition increases and the elimination of grants by the Liberals have made pursuing higher education increasingly difficult,” said Adrian Dix, New [...]

NEW DEMOCRAT ADVANCED ED CRITIC HEARS LOCAL COMMUNITY CONCERNS Prince George – New Democrat advanced education critic Michelle Mungall wants to see investment in apprenticeship and skills training programs in Prince George. Over the last three weeks, Mungall has toured colleges and universities across the province.  On Wednesday, she was in meetings with president George Iwama and [...]

Sept. 12, 2011  Proposal Supports Opportunities for Young People and Long Term Jobs Strategy; Backed By Faculty and Students VICTORIA – The B.C. government should proceed now with a needs-based grant program for post-secondary students, announced leader Adrian Dix today at Camosun College. “Ensuring access to advanced education must be a cornerstone of any economic growth [...]

During the Budget Estimates debate for Advanced Education, MLA Michelle Mungall, critic for Advanced Education, Youth and Labour Market development, uncovered that the BC Liberals are profiting off of low-income students who need loans to go to school. “The BC Liberal government is borrowing money for students loans at prime minus 1% then turning it [...]

Nelson- Let your MLA know why community sport is important and you could win tickets to this season’s West Kootenay Roller Derby bouts. Michelle Mungall is drawing pairs of tickets to see one of this region’s most explosive sporting events. Just email your submission to  michelle.mungall.mla@leg.bc.ca . First Draw is May 26 for the May 28 th bout [...]

MLA Michelle Mungall made a  statement in the Legislature on Monday May 16th about two of this region’s spring festivals. The first, Creston’s Blossom Festival, will be celebrating its 70th year and will host its annual parade on Saturday May 21. Kalso’s May Days hosts many activities, including the famous ‘Logger Sports’, and will be hosting its parade [...]

Nelson- Since learning of the BC Liberals’ betrayal on the Harmonized Sales Tax, the BCNDP has been clear the HST is the wrong tax at the wrong time. With an upfront and honest approach to the HST, the BCNDP has stood with families and small businesses to stop this tax shift. Despite calls on the BC [...]

After a government-appointed panel released a report on the impacts of the HST, Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall is disturbed at the discrepancies between the results and the promises made by BC Liberals. Although the BC Liberals assured that the harmonized sales tax will create over 100,000 jobs and economic growth in the province, the data [...]

Nelson-Creston MLA Michelle Mungall is disappointed that the 2011 BC Liberal Budget offers no change, and instead is the very same budget delivered under Gordon Campbell earlier this year. Former Minister of Finance, Colin Hansen, defined the budget as status quo when he presented it, as he assumed that the new Premier would add changes to [...]

MLA Michelle Mungall says British Columbia’s justice system is starving to death because of a severe lack of funding for Provincial Courts. In Yesterday’s Question Period, Mungall asked both the Solicitor General and the Minister of Finance to account for the chronic underfunding and increased cuts in this year’s Budget. “Is this the standard that [...]

Creston- Monday February 21 at 4:00pm, MLA Michelle Mungall will be releasing the report, Kootenay Lake Food Systems. This event brings the MLA’s work on local agriculture full circle since it is being held at the Creston Valley Chamber of Commerce, the same venue where Mungall heard from 50 local farmers on the need to build [...]

Nelson: This Saturday February 5th at 12pm in Central School gym, Scott Niedermayer will be showing his support to Keep Jumbo Wild and you can too! The two-time hockey Olympic gold medalist and Stanley Cup winner has  emailed Mungall to express his support for the rally.   Niedermeyer has been a vocal advocate for keeping [...]

  Nelson- Less than a month after the release of MLA Michelle Mungall’s three video letters to Minister Rich Coleman, funding for Nelson’s Anderson Street housing project has been given the green light. In a statement released by the Minister Responsible for Housing, more than $3.8 million in capital funding has been promised to build the [...]

 Today marks the third and final installment of MLA Michelle Mungall’s video- trilogy letter to Housing Minister, Rich Coleman. The video letters urge the Minister to spread a little holiday cheer by releasing funding for the Canadian Mental Health Association’s proposed Anderson Street housing development for seniors who have experienced homelessness. “The 35 units of [...]

In 2003, Carole James stepped forward to run for leadership of the BCNDP at a difficult time in our party’s history. We had two seats in the BC Legislature, and many people did not want to affiliate with us. Yet, Carole’s dedication to the NDP was clear during the leadership race, and in the end she [...]

This Holiday Season, MLA Michelle Mungall will use YouTube to send a video trilogy to Rich Coleman, the Minister responsible for Housing. The three video letters will focus on CMHA’s proposed 35 unit housing project slated for Nelson’s Anderson Street. “The Anderson Street housing project has been stalled for much too long. Minister Coleman has [...]