New child care centre a boost for Creston families
More families in Creston will have access to affordable and high-quality child care as the Province invests in 110 new licensed child care spaces.
More families in Creston will have access to affordable and high-quality child care as the Province invests in 110 new licensed child care spaces.
Premier David Eby has issued the following statement marking Navratri: “Tonight, Hindu communities in British Columbia will join others around the world in celebrating the beginning of the festival of Navratri. “For the next nine nights, families, friends and loved ones will gather to pray to the nine manifestations of the divine feminine and perform…
With a Doctor of Philosophy in integrative molecular medicine, Ivan Hartling (BSc Honours ’14) now works as a bioinformatician within the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford. He’s a long way from his hometown of Salmon Arm, B.C., where as a child he was inspired by seeing his mom work in the lab…
The Canadian Postal Worker’s Union is on their second strike this year after the government announced a number of reforms to the corporation last week. Jim Gallant, negotiator for the union, believes the workers are paying for the management mistakes. He sat down with CPAC host Michael Serapio on the demands of Canada Post. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdgoQ6C3ckQvMwAUeKuwkrTprkZfH240Q…
It’s time for jail, not bail for violent, repeat offenders. Woodbridge, ON – Today, the Hon. Pierre Poilievre, Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and the Official Opposition, and Arpan Khanna, Member of Parliament for Oxford and Conservative National Outreach Chair, announced they will introduce the Jail Not Bail Act to end the Liberal…
Better access to new life-saving medical treatments is coming with the launch of an eight-bed clinical trials unit (CTU) at Mount Saint Joseph Hospital in Vancouver. The new unit is a strategic asset for B.C.’s life-sciences sector, including Providence Research, and will address a critical gap in early-stage drug development allowing companies to keep their…
At a news conference on Parliament Hill, Duff Conacher, co-founder of the citizen advocacy group Democracy Watch, discusses the changes he will call for when testifying before the House of Commons Ethics Committee later today. The committee is meeting to continue its review of the Conflict of Interest Act. source