If the BC NDP’s new aid package for apple farmers was an actual apple, it’d be a bruised, shrivelled-up, tiny red Spartan, full of holes and hanging limply off the tree, just waiting to fall to the ground withan ignominious little plop. In fact, just calling it a government aid package is probably overselling it. […]
Street-entrenched patients are endangering elderly residents and nursing staff, say sources. “The language, sexual assault, the physical aggression, the weapons, I mean, it finally breaks us. The whole system is breaking us.” –Lana Lekopoy Patients with severe mental illness and addictions are being channelled into B.C. long term care homes, endangering elderly residents and creating […]
“Without immediate assistance, there will be no tree fruit industry to save.” –BC Tree Fruits Association It wasn’t even six months ago that the BC Tree Fruits cooperative ushered local politicians and the media into its newly updated and expanded sorting and packing facility in Oliver. At a cost of $60 million, it was an […]
