As you are likely aware, under the Police Act (the Act) the provincial government is responsible for providing police services to municipalities under 5,000 population and unincorporated areas. The Province provides these services through the RCMP Provincial Service. Also, under the Act, a municipality with a population greater than 5,000 is responsible for providing and […]

  ODN has talked with a regional RCMP commander, local MP, Mayor of Oliver and former member of Oliver Safety and Crime Committee On the job RCMP is doing in the South Okanagan – MP Dick Canning – “morale quite low about pay for work and transfer out of detachments.” Canning says the “police have […]

  Coots at Mahoney Lake

The windows work is part of the ongoing Museum windows restoration project the ODHS is completing. Gerry Plante’s Carpentry Ltd. of Oliver is completing the sanding, repainting, weather-stripping, and repair of all of our original 1924 wood-frame windows to make the building more energy-efficient and to better preserve these original building elements for the future. […]

The executive of the South Okanagan Concert Society met June 15th and is sad to announce that the concert season for 2020/2021 is cancelled as a result of the Covid19 pandemic. A variety of conditions forced this decision. First, musicians already booked to come from Quebec and points East simply cannot know whether travel will […]

The concentration of wealth among Canada’s richest 1% is deeper than previously believed, according to a federal government report based on a new modelling approach. The top 1% of Canada’s families hold about 25.6% of the wealth — roughly $3 trillion — up from 13.7% estimated under previous methodology, says the report from the Office […]

The headlines of a few days ago read Foreign Workers are not coming. The Mexican Government hit the pause button. That is only partly true, and only part of the problem. Over the past couple of days I have begun to separate fact from confusion. The pause button is on for those who did not […]