The B.C. Nurses’ Union is ramping up pressure on the province to do more to reduce violence in hospitals as it works to secure a new collective bargaining agreement with the government. “If nurses aren’t safe, if the health-care staff aren’t safe, there are impacts on patient care,” union president Adriane Gear said in a […]
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A Pitt Meadows park will be made more accessible thanks to a grant from the province. City hall has received $25,000 through the Local Community Accessibility Grant Program, which is administered by the Social Planning and Research Council of B.C. (SPARC BC), with funding from the B.C. government. The grant will support accessibility improvements at
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A B.C. Opposition MLA Brennan Day is raising concerns about the province’s upcoming overtime freeze for long-term care and assisted living. Announced in September, the province said that the reason for the funding ending was that it had started as temporary top ups during the pandemic, and that the province would be winding the program
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A 15-year-old Edmonton teen that was already in custody has now had charges of terrorism, violating a terrorism peace bond and child pornography offences added against them. On Oct. 2, the RCMP Federal Policing Northwest Region’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested the youth, who can’t be identified because of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
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The second-degree murder trial for Gabriella Sears is expected to continue in Kelowna Supreme Court next week. Sears, a transgender woman arrested under the name Derek Sears, is in custody, facing charges of second-degree murder and interference with human remains in the June 2021 death of Darren Middleton. The court previously heard during proceedings in
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