We recently did our climate change part by installing solar panels to generate our own electricity.
The next issue to tackle: the oil and gas sector is the largest and fastest growing source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, so we can’t meet our critical climate targets without reducing these emissions.
We have just celebrated the new year of 2023.
As I mark my fifth year as Board Chair of Interior Health (IH), I reflect on the highlights and challenges of 2022.
Nobody, absolutely nobody should have to worry about getting a parking ticket when at a hospital seeking help.
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on BC Premier David Eby to make three New Year’s resolutions: pay down the provincial debt, axe the second provincial carbon tax, and end the ICBC monopoly.
With just one week to go in our Empty Bowls and Baskets fundraiser, we’ve raised just over $25,000 in generous donations from our community.
Early November is always a time to remember the brave members of the armed forces who have fought for Canada around the world so that we can live with justice and peace.
his is sent in response to the opinion piece by Richard Cannings titled “Families finally getting help” on Nov. 17. Cannings’ attempt at deflection of blame for the Trudeau Liberal inflation that Canadians are suffering appears to be misguided.
The carbon tax hits the essential needs of our daily lives hard. It increases the cost of gasoline, diesel, natural gas, propane and furnace oil. Right now, the federal carbon tax is set at $50 per tonne, costing an extra 11 cents per litre of gasoline and 13 cents per litre of diesel. It costs families about $8 extra to fill up their minivans or about $13 extra to fill a pickup truck.
The BC SPCA is hoping you can help Poppy, a three-month-old Labrador retriever cross puppy who was found abandoned in a planter outside of the Alberni-Clayoquot community animal centre, terrified, exhausted and shivering.
Desert Sun Counselling and Resource Centre is currently two weeks into our third annual Empty Bowls and Baskets online fundraiser (Nov. 1 to Dec. 15). As of late last week, they raised just over $3,900. There is still have a long ways to go.
To all those who voted in this election, congratulations! You did it right and I am so glad to see the results.
Osoyoos Mayor Sue McKortoff and Councillor Myers Bennett are two of the dedicated people that I know who have put in the time for their community.
Politics cannot be understood without the use of science, and I stick to science and the golden rule in science. There may always be another reason and also why people run for office.
This is regarding last week’s aquatic centre articles in the Times Chronicle. Most of the older generations in this town never even knew there was a survey; they would also be the most hard hit financially.
On December 11 Oliver church is celebrating our 100-plus anniversary with a special joint worship service at 10 a.m., slide presentation, and lunch downstairs with historical materials on display in an open house.
Anyone who has been to a grocery store lately knows food prices are way, way up. The increasing cost of living is just one more big stress being layered onto struggling families in the South Okanagan.
The need for support is huge and growing in Oliver, Osoyoos and Okanagan Falls.
As I sit down to tell you about the upcoming South Okanagan Concert Society’s exciting palette of concerts for this season, my mind drifts to the 1970’s.
Excellent letter to the editor by Tom Szalay regarding the proposed rural aquatic centre (Times Chronicle Oct. 6).
As a bookkeeper I really appreciated all the math. I also wish that I could be asked and paid well to do a ‘study’ on something and come up with the obvious, that “the build cost would be big.”