COMMUNITY – Volunteers create new outdoor skating oval at Inks Lake
There’s a brand new skating oval on Inks Lake thanks to a collaboration between the Kamloops Outdoor Skating Association and Kamloops Long Blades along with other [Continue]
Health
COVID-19 – Virus case identified at Save-On Foods pharmacy in Columbia Place
A case of COVID-19 has been identified at the Save-On Foods pharmacy in the Columbia Place Shopping Centre in Sahali, Interior Health announced today (March 26, 2020). In [Continue]
COVID-19 – Local Caremongering volunteering initiative launched
Submitted by Caremongering-Kamloops: As the threat of COVID-19 loomed, and inspired by a national movement to help, the Facebook group Caremongering – Kamloops was [Continue]
COVID-19 – Essential visit restrictions in effect at all IH sites
COVID-19 update today (March 23, 2020) from Interior Health: Effective immediately and until further notice, Interior Health is limiting the number of visitors entering all [Continue]
CORONAVIRUS – Fear of a pandemic, or a pandemic of fear?
By ARNE RUCKERT L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa HELENE CARABIN Université de Montréal, and RONALD LABONTE L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa [Continue]
COMMUNITY – Mustard Seed reopens live-in support program
The Mustard Seed Kamloops has reopened a live-in support program, a 17-bed Men’s Sober Living Centre at the Outreach Centre at 181 West Victoria Street. The Centre will [Continue]
HEALTH – We must do more for seniors coming home from hospital
By RUTA VALAITIS and MAUREEN MARKLE-REID McMaster University DESPITE HAVING DIABETES and arthritis, Verne was a thriving independent 72-year-old who lived at home with his [Continue]
HEALTH – Gastrointestinal outbreak at RIH, Hillside limits access to 3 wards
Statement released by Interior Health: Gastrointestinal illness outbreak at Royal Inland Hospital KAMLOOPS – Royal Inland Hospital is currently experiencing a [Continue]
HEALTH CARE – How do we end emergency room madness?
The simple solution to overcrowding in our hospitals is to allow Canadians to purchase health insurance that covers medically necessary care By LEE HARDING Research Associate [Continue]
FOOD – Grocery stores bulk up on ultra-processed foods that don’t nourish us
Far too many products in Canada’s stores give us lots of calories but little nutrition. And we have dangerously abandoned cooking and meal-time routines By JEAN-CLAUDE [Continue]
AGING – Why you should talk to your family now about end-of-life wishes
By SHARON KAASALAINEN and TAMARA SUSSMAN EvidenceNetwork.ca MANY PEOPLE have been faced with having to make critical decisions for family and friends who were at the end of [Continue]
HELPING – A nurse practitioner turns a passion for humanity into a career
By MICHELE YOUNG Thompson Rivers University She travels thousands of miles to help people in some of the poorest places on the planet. Nurse practitioner Patrice Gordon has [Continue]
KNOX – Not many smokers left to complain about ban by B.C. ferries
AS OF MONDAY, you may not smoke anywhere on a B.C. Ferries vessel or at its terminals. No smoking tobacco, no smoking e-cigarettes, no smoking dope (yes, the ban includes [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – His and hers health – drugs don’t affect sexes the same way
MEDICATIONS affect women differently than men but you wouldn’t know it from prescribed drugs. Take the sleep drug Ambien, for example. After the drug had been placed on [Continue]
