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The pair will replace Patti Best and Harvey Naglie on Nov. 1

The awards honor and celebrate seven people, businesses, organizations or groups that made a big impact in the community in 2020. Recipients this year include: Terry Kalil, Greta Guck and the entire Detroit Lakes Public Library team, SJE, La Barista, Kristin Bausman, Amy Erickson and Bruce Imholte.

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Jim Sinclair, ages ago, told us that the moment the Obama administration threatened the Swiss with SWIFT expulsion over opening up its vaunted banking privacy rules was the equivalent of a nuclear first strike. Previous to this threat SWIFT was as unknown to most people as the most arcane aspects of particle physics. It was the means by which money magically moved around the world. Without it modern finance and trade couldn’t exist and politicization of it was anathema because of that. SWIFT...

The harmonized sales tax is a “lose-lose” situation, says B.C. Federation of Labour president Jim Sinclair. He urged about 75 delegates at a federation conference in Prince George Friday to vote against the HST. “They haven’t fixed a thing, they made it worse,” Sinclair said of the government’s move to reduce the HST from 12 per cent to 10 per cent over the next three years. “If (Premier Christy Clark) drops the rate, she loses $1.8 billion out of the money we have to pay for scho...

April 15, 2021 - 7:53 AM DELTA, B.C. - Hospice services are once again available locally to residents of Delta, B.C., as Fraser Health officially opens the Irene Thomas Hospice. The launch ends a bitter and lengthy battle between the province and a provincially funded society that formerly operated the hospice, but refused to provide medical assistance in dying. Members of the former Delta Hospice Society objected on religious grounds to a requirement to offer medically assisted...

Members of the former Delta Hospice Society objected on religious grounds to a requirement to offer medically assisted deaths, prompting legal action, removal of provincial funding and an order for the society to vacate the facility. Fraser Health took possession of the 10-bed hospice on March 31, and made several upgrades and repairs before the Thursday opening. Jim Sinclair, chairman of the Fraser Health board of directors, issued a statement thanking Delta residents and city councillors for ...

getting the job done Our unpaid Bee Cave mayor, Kara King, has been working tirelessly to advocate for the people that elected her. Contacting utility providers, sending daily emailsto households with updates on when relief is expected were just some of the ways she assisted the community. She also found the latest forms of help, including finding sources of bottled water for those without running water and creating a spreadsheet for those without heat, power or water so neighbors with u...

DELTA, B.C. — A hospice that has refused to provide medical assistance in dying based on religious objections will have to vacate a facility in Delta, B.C., by the end of March. Health Minister Adrian Dix joined two officials from the regional health authority in saying a contract with the Delta Hospice Society will end […]

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