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You now have your chance to get involved in getting BC a holiday in February.
Vancouver resident Kate Holmes has started an on-line peitition called Glowing Hearts Day named to remember the Olympics, and get us in sync with the other provinces for a day off.
The petition will be presented to the Premier.
If you would like to sign, go online to gopetition.com and click on Glowing Hearts Day.
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B.C. Health Minister Kevin Falcon says he has a plan to market health-care services to rich, offshore patients similar to the way the province sells higher education to foreign students.
The concept of using health tourism as a means to generate revenue for B.C.'s health-care system deserves more study, Falcon said Tuesday.
He said he's been in discussions with medical professionals about opening centres of health excellence in British Columbia that offer medical treatment to foreign patients willing to pay extra.
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UBCO is in the middle of Celebrate Research Week with events taking place daily on campus.
Bonnie Bates Gibbs director of alumni and university relations says it gets people talking on issues that don't always come up. Its a chance to hi-light some of the areas of research being done at the University.
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As of March 15, the tennis courts located outside the Parkinson Recreation Centre will be temporarily closed for facility upgrades.
The upgrades include re-alignment, repairs to the surface, new court lines and a partial replacement of the chain link fencing.
The tennis court re-alignment will allow for the construction of the Parkinson Recreation Park Multi-use Trail that will link Rails with Trails to the future pedestrian crossing over Highway 97.
Construction for the Parkinson Recreation Park Multi-use Trail and the Highway 97 pedestrian overpass is expected to begin in May.
The tennis courts are expected to re-open on May 1.
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The Liberal government of 2005 feared Canada's detention of Afghan prisoners would spark a controversy similar to Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, according to a current government official who spoke with CBC News....
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Ontario Provincial Police have charged former township leader Fred Preston with first-degree murder in death of a constable who was killed in a shootout on a rural road in southwestern Ontario....
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