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BC INTERIOR NEWS

New interior health website for doctor recruitment launched
August 27, 2008
In an effort to reveal the benefits of living and working in B.C.’s Interior to doctors across Canada and around the world, Interior Health has launched a new website designed to help showcase local communities.
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Grim future for local health care
August 25, 2008
The future of health care in our rural communities is changing, and not necessarily for the better, was the message delivered at last week’s forum in Cache Creek.
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Listeriosis case confirmed in B.C. Interior
August 25, 2008
A case tied to the Canada-wide outbreak of the food-borne illness listeriosis has been discovered in Cranbrook, British Columbia health officials confirmed Monday.
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Environmental groups hope to add shoreline to provincial park
August 23, 2008
The Land Conservancy of B.C. and the The Valhalla Foundation for Ecology & Social Justice, part of the Valhalla Wilderness Society, are in negotiations to buy up a stretch of shoreline on Slocan Lake on the southern boundary of Valhalla Provincial Park.
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Last doctors quit Interior town
August 23, 2008
Andrew Neuner, chief operating officer for the Thompson-Cariboo-Shuswap region in the Interior Health Authority, spoke after the last two physicians in Ashcroft announced Thursday they were leaving.
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Owens-Illinois closes B.C. facility; 3rd Canadian plant closure this year
August 22, 2008
Owens-Illinois Inc. said it will shut its bottle-making plant in Lavington, B.C., by the end of October, putting 300 people out of work.
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B.C.'s blueberry blues
August 22, 2008
The area in which the resort is to be built also happens to be among the best areas for picking berries, as well as a spiritually important region.
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Burn victim dies, 2 still missing in Prince George hotel fire
August 20, 2008
A man critically burned in Tuesday's hotel fire in Prince George, B.C., died Wednesday morning, while two people believed to be inside the building when the fire broke out are still unaccounted for.
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Lightning sparks fires in B.C. Interior
August 18, 2008
Small fires are scattered "from the [U.S.] border west of Osoyoos all the way up in through Penticton and Kelowna, as well as up through Douglas Lake into Westwold to Falkland and up into the Salmon Arm area," said Jeanne Rucker, fire information officer at the Kamloops Fire Centre.
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90 stations in B.C., Alta., could run dry due to Petro-Can shutdown
August 15, 2008
Up to 90 stations in the interior of British Columbia and Alberta could run dry over the course of the shutdown of local Petro-Canada's refinery, said company spokeswoman Kelli Stevens.
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Helicopter crashes in northern B.C.
August 13, 2008
Safety board spokesman Bill Yearwood told CBC News the pilot is thought to have been the only person on board the aircraft when it went down about 40 kilometres northeast of Terrace, B.C.
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Surging B.C. glacier threatens to block Alsek River
August 13, 2008
A glacier in northern British Columbia is surging into the Alsek River, which runs through the Yukon, raising concerns of flooding in Alaska.
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Kelowna rabbit exterminators call for RCMP protection
August 13, 2008
City forester Ian Wilson said the pest control company is concerned because it's now being threatened with violence and people at the firm have spoken to the RCMP to request protection.
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Push on to extend Cache Creek landfill
August 12, 2008
The operator of the Cache Creek Regional Landfill is proposing to nearly triple the capacity of the dump to solve Metro Vancouver's looming garbage glut.
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OPINION: B.C.'s forests can lead fight against climate change
Surprisingly, as bad as things are, B.C.'s forest industry has before it one of the greatest opportunities in more than a generation, an opportunity that will benefit our entire province.- Ric Slaco, Vancouver Sun

NEWS, EVENTS, RESOURCES

BC ONLINE NEWS
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BC Politics
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BROADCAST MEDIA
CBC Schedules for BC
CBC British Columbia
Knowledge Network

Mountain Caribou habitat protected

BC INTERIOR PUBLIC EVENTS
Pemberton Festival: Jul.25-27
Williams Lake Stampede: Jul.27-30
Grizfest Music Festival - Tumbler Ridge: Aug.2-3.
Bulkley Valley Exhibition - Smithers, Aug.21-24.
Interior Provincial Exhibition & Stampede - Armstrong, Aug.29-Sep.2.
7 Summits Bike & Hike Challenge, Wells: Sep.14

BC REFERENCES

Atlas of BC plants
BC Government
B C Interior Books
BC River levels
BC School Holidays
BC Treaty Commission
Biodiversity & wildlife
Birding in BC
BC Blogs
Cariboo birds
Farmers Markets in BC
Grasslands in BC
Invasive plants
Kamloops Inside Out - Blog
Mountain Pine Beetle
Mosquito Deterrents and Repellants

IN and BEYOND BC
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For almost any other information, we highly recommend:
Wikipedia: British Columbia Interior

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One of BC's characteristic wild sounds, heard across the lakes, is the call of the loon.
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