Mayor offers mill tax holiday to stay open

While Tolko Industries has not rejected The Pas Mayor Jim Scott’s offer of a municipal and school tax holiday, the company wants to know if any potential buyer would get the same deal. “I’m not sure how to read that,” Scott said Thursday afternoon....

Are we shipping our jobs overseas?

Many say that the controversial practice of exporting logs without processing them provides the lowest possible value for B.C. communities and starves the mills and the livelihoods that rely on timber. Others counter that log exports are essential to the industry...