Terry Lake

COLLINS – A real solution to the problems with healthcare system

February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

ANYONE WHO KNOWS anything about health care, in whatever capacity, knows that the system is broken, and in desperate need of repair. Long waits at walk-in clinics, long waits [Continue]

Canine cancer patients face death sentence if RIH refusal to provide chemotherapy drugs isn’t reversed

December 5, 2016 // 3 Comments

Canine family members unlucky enough to get cancer will face death sentences unless Interior Health reverses or stalls a decision to stop providing chemotherapy drugs to [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER — Getting a family doctor begins with a form

July 18, 2015 // 8 Comments

COLUMN — The doctors’ list isn’t working. Back in April, when our longtime family doctor gave three weeks notice he was closing his practice, I called a [Continue]

Share, eat, talk with seniors at neighbourhood kitchen

May 15, 2015 // 1 Comment

NEWS/ SENIORS — A neighbourhood kitchen for seniors will get $150,000 from the provincial government. Health Minister Terry Lake announced the funding Friday. The kitchen [Continue]

Kamloops patient ‘is not a number’

April 23, 2015 // 6 Comments

B.C. Health Minister and Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Terry Lake was on the hot seat in the Legislature on Wednesday over hospital wait lists and ambulance response times. [Continue]

Changes to laws target e-cigarette use by young people

March 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

NEWS — The provincial government has introduced amendments to the Tobacco Control Act to regulate e-cigarettes in an attempt to stop the growing use of them by young [Continue]