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Changes to foreign worker policy impacts local ski hills

VERNON - Crackdowns on Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program have put local ski hills in a bind. Ken Derpak, managing director for Silver Star Mountain Resort, says the process for hiring a temporary foreign worker now carries a $1,000 fee. Before the overhauls, it cost only $275 per person. Silver Star typically hires 20 international...

How one word can turn your life upside down

“ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN, BE GRATEFUL FOR WHAT YOU HAVE” VERNON - Just a few weeks ago, 17-year-old Dennon Leibel was attending his last few classes before graduating high school. Now, he’s in a hospital bed, going through his first round of chemo. The word cancer turned his life, and his family’s, upside down. It was...