False alarms around virus over after two Kelowna residents tested positive for local infection last summer.
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West Kelowna council agrees to rezone farm land for future health centre
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | 6:13 pm
Site of future health centre is at Brown and Bering Road.
Keep gambling offline say, Quebec health directors
Friday, February 19th, 2010 | 6:46 am
Canwest News Service
MONTREAL – Public health directors from across Quebec gathered in Montreal Thursday to plead for a halt in the provincial government's plans to set up its own, legal, online gambling site.
Loto-Quebec announced last week it will set up…
Social service agencies shed crocodile tears over demise of Kelowna Drop In Centre
Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 | 8:30 am
Kelowna Drop In Centre due to close at the end of March.
Change health system, bereaved family says; Man died waiting
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | 4:16 am
Canwest News Service
WINNIPEG – Brian Sinclair may have died alone and ignored in the waiting room of a Winnipeg hospital's emergency room, but his family wants his death to have ramifications for the health-care system.
Mr. Sinclair's family says what happened…
Latest movie has 'wolfman' howling mad; Decries Hollywood
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | 3:31 am
Canwest News Service
After spending almost three years living with a wolf pack in North Devon, England, 45-year-old Shaun Ellis learned how to earn the animals' trust. There were rituals to be followed around feeding. Like in any family, hierarchy determined…
JFK of the NDP? Not quite
Thursday, February 11th, 2010 | 3:31 am
Canwest News Service
This is an edited version of Matt Gurney's column. Read the full text online at nationalpost.com/postedtorontoSome have dismissed Adam Giambrone's infidelities as immaterial, pointing out that many great leaders in Western history have changed the world whilst being…
Gout increases heart attack risk in women: B.C. study.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | 12:36 am
Canwest News Service
VANCOUVER – Women with gout have a 40 per cent increased risk of fatal and non-fatal heart attacks compared to women without the disease, a new British Columbia study says.
By comparison, men with gout only have an 11…
Alberta budget boosts health spending, cuts elsewhere.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 | 12:36 am
Canwest News Service
EDMONTON – The Alberta government performed a budget balancing act Tuesday, slashing spending across 15 ministries and cutting more than 700 jobs – but also bolstering funding for health care and holding the line on social programs.
For the…
Adults can make their own choices
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | 11:46 pm
Canwest News Service
Re: 'Put Your Bloody Helmet On,' letter to the editor, Feb. 8; My Head, My Choice, Chris Selley, Feb. 5.
Letter-writer Kourtney Robinson argues that, as a taxpayer, she can order columnist Chris Selley to wear a helmet while…
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