Performance-based pay increases given to top Interior Health (IH) brass amid a physician shortage crisis at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) are being criticized by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF). “Taxpayers should be deeply concerned at the culture in Interior Health that’s allowing this to happen,” said Carson Binda, B.C.’s director with the CTF. A shortage…
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government broke its legal, record-keeping obligations amid its now-reversed decision to open up parts of the protected Greenbelt lands for housing, the province’s information and privacy commissioner has found. Political staff were using code words to thwart document requests and left a surprisingly small paper trail for such a consequential policy,…
Ethan Katzberg wasn’t a model of consistency Wednesday, but he only needed one strong throw to win his fifth consecutive men’s hammer throw competition to start the 2025 season. The reigning world and Olympic champion from Nanaimo, B.C., was the lone athlete in the field of seven to surpass 80 metres, throwing 80.19 in his…
Rylie Nicholls spent a lot of time in the pediatric ward at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) before the five-year-old Lake Country girl died from an aggressive form of cancer in 2023. “We had about 10 different admissions through Kelowna General Hospital,” Nicholls said. The Lake Country mother, who also has an eight-year-old son, is upset…
Former deputy finance minister and businessman Michael Sabia has been named the next head of Canada’s public service. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that he would be tapping Sabia as the next clerk of the Privy Council in a news release on Wednesday. “Mr. Sabia brings over three decades of expertise across the public and…
The defence teams for five former world junior hockey players accused of sexual assault continued making their closing arguments Tuesday. Meanwhile, Justice Maria Carroccia said she’ll deliver her decisions in late July. Source link
The calls to solve the doctor shortage crisis at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH) are growing and getting louder by the day. “There is hurt and there’s anger that it took so long and it took a crisis of this level,” said Dr. Alysha MacKenzie-Feder, a Kelowna, B.C., pediatrician who resigned from the hospital in 2024….
Juliette Powell, a former MuchMusic host and the first Black woman to be crowned Miss Canada, has died at the age of 54. Powell, who was born in New York but moved to Montreal as a child with her French Canadian mother, died unexpectedly on June 3 after falling ill with acute bacterial meningitis, according to an obituary posted…
The Florida Panthers have taken control of Game 3, with Sam Bennett scoring seven minutes into the second period to give his team a 4-1 lead. Corey Perry got the Edmonton Oilers on the board with a power play goal early in the period, but the Panthers were quick to respond with Sam Reinhart getting a third…
A 0.5-hectare wildfire is burning out of control in Squamish, B.C., just above some homes in the Northridge area. The BC Wildfire Centre expects the fire to spread. Source link
