Avril Torrence News Today

People with a passion for social justice are invited Sunday to get in on the ground floor of a new South Okanagan chapter of the Council of Canadians.

Column reeks of propaganda

Dear editor, As an active Alberta Friends of Medicare member, I applaud Canada’s Environment Ministry recent Bill C-28 to protect Canadians’ health from adverse environmental effects. Still, this measure doesn’t go far enough. Apart from obvious water pollution from coal mines, the continued use of fossil fuels (including those used to extract coal) threatens a very disturbed planet in multiple ways that – ultimately – affect the health and well-being of everyone: fires, floods and ot...

Letter: We must better protect our frontline health-care workers Poll Yes A letter to Health Minister Tyler Shandro: A recent Medicine Hat News article, “Local paramedic says certain hospital workers left out of vaccine rollout” prompted the Board of Palliser Friends of Medicare to contact the issue’s advocate, health-care worker and HSAA member, Jason Soklofske, for more information. For we were astonished by his report of the disregard shown to hundreds of frontline health-care workers...