As Canadian cities face growing pressure to provide more and better services for the elderly, a new study released by the IRPP says they should discontinue the practice of reducing user fees and property taxes for seniors. Using Ontario as a case study, municipal finance expert Harry Kitchen lays out some guiding principles for financing services like […]

March – provincial firefighters are already issuing warnings about increased fire risk in several areas of B.C this weekend due to a lower than usual snowpack. Concerns about water levels and salmon streams were raised last week. Now provincial authorities are warning about the potential for an earlier than usual wildfire season. The Kamloops Fire […]

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An Evening With Parkinson’s The Parkinson’s support group of Osoyoos and Oliver would like to invite you to an evening of understanding what Parkinson’s is.  We desire to help our friends appreciate how the experience of Parkinson’s disease impacts us and ways we can learn to live with it. The focal point of the evening […]