Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal

Ashcroft Hospital emergency department closed this weekend

Ashcroft hospital emergency closed sign, 2016. Photo credit: Barbara Roden

Closure due to unexpected limited physician availabiliy, says Interior Health

by Barbara Roden

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At an outdoor drive-in convocation ceremony, Mount Royal University bestows an honorary Doctor of Laws on Blackfoot Elder and residential school survivor Clarence Wolfleg in Calgary on Tuesday, June 8, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

‘You didn’t get the best of me’: Residential school survivor gets honorary doctorate
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No appointments necessary for first dose COVID-19 vaccine: Interior Health
Massive jade boulder returns to Cache Creek store six months after daring heist
Update: Man, 28, arrested for alleged kidnapping in 100 Mile House faces seven charges
Child sex crimes charges against Interior’s top doc won’t impact pandemic response: Dix

“They will never be forgotten, every child matters,” says Sioux Valley Chief Jennifer Bone in a video statement. (Screen grab)

104 ‘potential graves’ detected at site of former residential school in Manitoba

by Sarah Grochowski

updated 1 min ago
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The Queen Victoria statue at the B.C. legislature was splattered with what looks like red paint on Friday. (Nicole Crescenzi/News Staff)

Queen Victoria statue at B.C. legislature vandalized Friday

by Victoria News Staff

updated 1h ago

Guns, $60K worth of pot products seized in commercial bust: Vancouver police

Cannabis 19+

Want to name the largest sturgeon ever caught by this BC hatchery? Here is your chance!

West Coast Traveller

Police cars are seen parked outside Vancouver Police Department headquarters on Saturday, January 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Win Adventures to the Filming Location of the HISTORY Channel’s “Alone” Season 8!

How to tell if a call from ‘CRA’ is legitimate or a scam

NDP MP Leah Gazan rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Monday, June 7, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

NDP calls on Ottawa to recognize residential schools as genocide

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walks between buildings in the Parliamentary precinct in Ottawa on Friday May 28, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Trudeau says government looking at plan for return of international tourists

A group of Coquitlam golfers was interrupted on Tuesday, May 25, 2021, by a black bear who bit a player's ball and tossed it back towards the group. (Screen grab/Mark Pettie)

VIDEO: ‘Seriously annoyed’ black bear tosses ball, interrupts B.C. golfers

2 sides of the same coin: Ex-foster kids identify with residential school survivors

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip says the child welfare system takes Indigenous children from their families

by The Canadian Press

updated 3h ago

Statistics Canada building and signs are pictured in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Growth in Canadian household wealth on track to slow down as economy reopens

‘I think households will be tempted to restart spending on things like dining out, clothing,’ says TD Bank economist Ksenia Bushmeneva

by The Canadian Press

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Cheer on grads at drive-by and parade in Ashcroft and Cache Creek

This year’s Desert Sands graduating class will tour both communities on June 11

by Barbara Roden

(from l) Kris Hardy, Daniela Dyck, Maike Mayden, and Mehal Bhalla of the Village of Ashcroft with one of the Communities in Bloom ‘Garden of Hope’ planters and the sign created by Jo Petty at the village office. (Photo credit: Barbara Roden)

Ashcroft Communities in Bloom volunteers plant gardens of hope

Yellow is the colour of hope, and Communities in Bloom hopes gardens go yellow this year

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