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NDP Pharmacare

Last week Canada took another major step forward truly universal healthcare with the tabling of the NDP’s Pharmacare Act.
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February 20

SUPPORT FOR OUR WINE INDUSTRY

I’ve written several times recently about the costs of climate change. Some of those costs are obvious, including the loss of homes, property, and infrastructure due to the increased severity of climate-related events such as wildfires, floods, hurricanes and tornados.  Home insurance costs are going up for everybody because of those events.  But one sector that is at a very high risk of impact from climate change often goes under the radar, and that is agriculture.  The...
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December 13

NDP Dental Plan Announced

To be frank, last week in Ottawa ended with incredible frustration and disappointment as we saw the Conservatives use their time in Parliament to play games with vital funding to government services, turning what should have been a couple of hours of supply funding votes into a 30-hour debacle of political games.
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September 12

AFTER A DECADE IN POLITICS, NDP MP RICHARD CANNINGS ANNOUNCES HE WILL NOT SEEK RE-ELECTION

Penticton- NDP MP for South Okanagan – West Kootenay, Richard Cannings announced today that he will not seek re-election in 2025. Cannings has had an influential and successful career as an opposition MP that punched well above his weight with his party holding the balance of power during consecutive minority governments.
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September 4

Labour Day 2023

Monday was Labour Day, a time to reflect on the contributions of workers and celebrate the advances that organized labour has achieved to make our lives truly livable—the weekend, the 8-hour workday, workers’ compensation, sick leave, maternity and paternity leave, and more. 
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August 22

Wildfires

This summer has been the worst wildfire season in Canada, and it reached that landmark not in August or even July, but on June 25th.  The British Columbia situation is similar; by June 18 the Donnie Creek fire officially became the largest fire in provincial history.  Fires all over the southern Interior followed-- in Osoyoos, Kamloops, Adams Lake, West Kelowna, Keremeos, Twin Lakes, the Fraser Canyon and more. 
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August 5

Sign our petition now to help fight the climate crisis.

Join us in demanding the right to live in a healthy and ecologically balanced environment and the tools to ensure the Government of Canada is protecting this right within its legal jurisdiction.
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February 21

Electoral Boundary Changes

I’d like to outline how we got to this point, present some of the details of the proposed changes, and provide an opportunity for feedback of any local concerns.
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February 8

Childcare

When the Royal Commission on the Status of Women recommended a national childcare program in 1970, I was still a Pen-Hi student. I never thought that it might take over a half-century for Canada to create legislation for such an important program. But, on the heels of the birth of my third grandchild, Canada is very close to doing just that.
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January 25

Defending Public Health Care

There is nothing more precious to us than our health, and good health is dependent on good health care.  For decades, Canadians have been proud of our universal health care system, but that system is now in a state of crisis.
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