Over 1,000 short-term rentals to come off the market in the Central Okanagan this week castanet.net/news/West-Kelo…

UBCO calls for remediation work to start on Hadgraft Wilson Place 'as quickly as possible,' offers to help with repairs castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

Is Michael Scott a truck driver now?

At the KRCR senior homelessness forum. 35% of homeless are now defined as +55 seniors, and the Kelowna Gospel Mission has 4 group houses completely full of women over 55. Shocking.

Hadgraft Wilson resident evacuated from home dies Monday, family believes it could have been avoided castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

Animation jobs leaving the Okanagan with loss of tax credit, says industry leaders castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

Very excited for the release of this paper, mapping the emergence of a moral panic around safer supply prescribing. Led by Liam Michaud 🇵🇸, our team uses established criteria for moral panics to explore recent rhetoric around safer supply, diversion and youth drug use 🧵

Why are we ok with safe consumption sites in most downtowns but not at a hospital? Defies logic.

Kelowna, West Kelowna on new provincial housing target list castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

Kelowna RCMP continue search for missing senior castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

All else aside, the decriminalization is a response to the overdose epidemic, not the cause of it. If reversing decriminalization is the main plank of your opioid plan, you've got no plan to actually address the problem.

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Judge approves sales process for redevelopment of Kelowna mobile home park castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

K.L.O. Farm Market invites Kelowna to first tulip festival castanet.net/news/Kelowna/4…

'More than 50 studies on nonfictional stories reported in newspapers, on television, and more recently on the Internet, have yielded consistent findings. Suicide rates go up following an increase in the frequency of stories about suicide.' ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK20726…

Are we all going to pretend that police used to actually respond to calls about public drug use before decriminalization?

Kelowna RCMP not talking after motorcycle crashes in front of police cruiser #Kelowna bit.ly/49zItFP

The government cut the amount of Google money allocated toward the CBC from Bill C-18. So it makes it up with an extra $42 million from #Budget2024 .

Oh to be a fat monkey eating mangoes by the stream

Coroner data is clear – 7 people a day in BC are dying from toxic illicit drugs (primarily fentanyl), NOT diverted prescription medication. We need to focus on what is causing the most harm. Fiona Wilson #factsmatter #evidencebased