Adrian Dix

PETERS – Prospect of change to doctors’ pay more promising than funding

August 27, 2022 // 0 Comments

THE PROVINCIAL FUNDING FOR FAMILY PHYSICIANS announced this week is a good sign — but not even the best piece of news coming out of that announcement. The funding itself is [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Kamloops has to up its lobbying game on the cancer clinic

August 6, 2022 // 0 Comments

A FULL-SERVICE CANCER CLINIC is in the works for Kamloops somewhere within the books of the provincial NDP government but it might be a long way off. Premier John Horgan [Continue]

STONE – Health minister’s low-key visit shows sad state of B.C. health care

July 22, 2022 // 2 Comments

By TODD STONE MLA, Kamloops-South Thompson THE BC LIBERALS have long been calling for action to resolve B.C.’s health care crisis, including the ongoing situation at Royal [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER: Parents have a decision to make on vaccinating kids

November 24, 2021 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A NEW FRONT has been opened in the war against COVID-19, and a new insurgency is already fomenting. Parents and guardians who have [Continue]

DIX – Vaccine card gets us one step closer to getting rid of the pandemic

September 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

By ADRIAN DIX Minister of Health, B.C. OVER THE LAST year and a half of the global pandemic, one thing has become abundantly clear – the COVID-19 virus lives to spread and [Continue]

PETERS- It’s been a great week for the public health system in Canada (really)

September 12, 2020 // 0 Comments

IT’S BEEN A GREAT WEEK for the public health system in Canada. No, really. On Thursday, the B.C. Supreme Court ruled against a Vancouver clinic trying to offer wealthy [Continue]

FORSETH – Some alarming trends are developing in B.C.’s COVID-19 stats

September 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

BACK TO SCHOOL starts in a matter of days, and a trend is appearing in the COVID-19 situation that, to me at least, should be a matter of concern. Where we had previously [Continue]

EDITORIAL – BCTF needs to chill out about Dr. Bonnie Henry’s TV blurb

September 1, 2020 // 1 Comment

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE B.C. TEACHERS FEDERATION needs to get a life. Its members — at least some of them, including president Teri Mooring — are unhappy [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – B.C. needs to go back to the drawing boards on return-to-school plan

August 6, 2020 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, and the B.C. government, have a real problem on their hands with the plan to open schools in the fall. A petition against [Continue]

FORSETH – How many times does govt have to announce something?

January 5, 2019 // 7 Comments

BC NDP government hoping to score 3 times the brownie points with re-announcement, of a previous announcement, that in itself was a re-announcement OKAY, MAYBE YOU LOST ME [Continue]

IN THE LEDGE – ‘Tell drivers how much ICBC boondoggle is going to cost them’

February 24, 2017 // 5 Comments

Excerpts from an exchange between Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure Todd Stone and NDP leader John Horgan and former leader Adrian Dix during Question Period, [Continue]

Sorry, Clark doesn’t ‘deserve’ to be handed a free seat

June 6, 2013 // 0 Comments

I’m not one of those who gets all sentimental about Christy Clark “deserving” a seat in the B.C. Legislature. Clark announced Wednesday she will run in a by-election in [Continue]