The average life expectancy for a Canadian is just over 82 years. For those that make it to age 65, your updated life expectancy is around age 85. While it’s nice to see lifespans continually increasing, longer life expectancies do complicate many traditional ways of calculating retirement plans. With retirement phases now being measured in […]
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Some final thought from CAO at Osoyoos
By Roy Wood Today is the final day on the job for Osoyoos chief administrative officer Barry Romanko. He came to Osoyoos nearly 11 years ago after successful stints as a senior town manager in Jasper, CAO in Spirit River, Alberta and in the community development branch of the Alberta government. He announced his retirement […]
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Incendiary devices ?
At one point – late this afternoon the side of a mountainous hill exploded in “deep” black smoke. According to one source BC Wildfire is using chemical incendiary devices that burn hot and fast creating an up draft for the smoke. Pretty dramatic and scary at times. This fire was so hot I could feel […]
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Bodies of two Vancouver Island teens found
RCMP say the bodies believed to be two BC murder suspects have been found in northern Manitoba. Police say the two teenagers were found this morning in dense brush near the shoreline of the Nelson River. Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, from Port Alberni were facing a second-degree murder charge in the death […]