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Health

Province improves BC Ambulance Service in Nakusp

Editor’s note: The shortage of paramedics serving in BC’s rural communities, from Quadra Island to the Interior, has been an ongoing problem. Cortes Island appears to be one of the exceptions, in that it “is not facing any significant staffing issues.” Here is another success story.

By John Boivin, Valley Voice, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Nakusp is going to have a fully-staffed, 24/7 ambulance service in the near future.

BC Emergency Health Service says it’s improving ambulance service in the community by providing eight full-time paramedic positions.

Nakusp is one of 31 communities that will be receiving more permanent full-time paramedics.

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Politics

2022 Electoral Area Directors Debate

The Electoral Area Directors Debate was the first of six all candidates debates co hosted by the Campbell River & District Chamber of Commerce, with the CR Mirror and the Tidemark Theatre Society.

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Health

Bella Coola ambulance service had coverage for only half of July

By Kaitlyn Bailey,  Prince Rupert Northern View, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The Bella Coola ambulance was only in-service 52 per cent of July, Lesley Pritchard, communications for BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) stated in an email.

The in-service average over the past year was higher, at 75 per cent, but was still equivalent to one week per month without ambulance services.

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Food

‘Your Nation’s Table’ TV series on BC’s sustainable seafood industry nears completion

By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca

Your Nation’s Table TV series on BC’s sustainable seafood industry premiers this fall on Nov. 15.

Producer/host Carmen Ruiz y Laza says shooting has finished on five of the six episodes. She adds that the series highlights  families involved in sustainable fisheries harvesting salmon, albacore tuna, spot prawns, geoduck, sable fish (also known as black cod), and dungeness crab. Salmon, spot prawns and geoduck are all harvested in the waters off Cortes Island.

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