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INTERVIEW: Dr. Andre De Greef - The doctors strike back
by Andrew Zwicker on Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 20:24

The long-brewing storm of discontent at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital has boiled over in the past few weeks, with storiess being picked up on provincial and national news broadcasts. Doctors are upset about how Interior Health has been run and how they’ve allotted funds. This, coupled with a lack of dialogue with decision makers and proposed cuts that will inhibit their ability to serve their patients, has cracked the issue wide open for local physicians.

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The Foodies get REAL

by Andrew Zwicker on 11 Mar 2010
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The Rossland Foodies and their mission to get a community garden established in town have become a little more real over the winter, both in name and project.

 

For starters the “Foodies” have officially become Rossland REAL Food. “I can’t stop using “The Foodies”, but we have changed our name to Rossland REAL Food. The REAL is capitalized, but I can’t remember exactly what it stands for now,” explained Rachel Roussin.”We were originally going to call ourselves 'Rossland’s Food Group' but Rossland isn’t really a food group [laughs].”

 

DREAM OF DEMOCRACY 7: Implementation

by Adrian Barnes on 11 Mar 2010

Last time around, we agreed to assume, for the purposes of discussion, that the constitution of Canada B has now been drafted. This process complete, Canada B will now be said to exist as an alternate form of government for the land mass we all inhabit—you know, that big, cold chunk of ground north of the 49th parallel. Our gorgeous land mass can now be said to have two ardent suitors: 'Canada' and Canada B. Which will prevail?

Regional News

KEEPING IT REAL: Under BC Injustice System, crime DOES pay

by Harvey Oberfeld on 10 Mar 2010
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Think about it.  If you could walk away with more than $32 million and only have to spend 36 months of your life in a federal prison (maybe even minimum security farm), would you do it? That’s almost a take of a million dollars a month … former investment adviser and convicted multiple fraudster Ian Thow has been alleged to have done pretty close to that

National and International

Several hundred buried in mass graves in Nigeria following clashes

by Wikinews on 11 Mar 2010
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Several hundred bodies have been buried in Nigeria in mass graves near the city of Jos after recent clashes when Muslim herdsmen reportedly attacked Christian villagers.

"We have about 351 corpses being buried at this mass grave, and at the other end, there is another village called Zot, where there are about 36 corpses to be buried separately," commented Solomon Zang, who is Plateau State's chairman of the search, recovery and evacuation committee, as quoted by News24.