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Rising xylazine imports fuel illicit drug supply in BC’s Interior: Health Canada
With xylazine being traced more and more in the illicit drug supply in BC's Interior…
UBCO program to reduce diabetes risk expands across Canada
A UBC Okanagan professor created a program in collaboration with the YMCA that offers diet…
Free radon testing kits available in Central Okanagan
The Regional District of Central Okanagan is partnering with Health Canada and Take Action on…
Health Canada recalls face-masks with graphene due to health risks
Anyone using face masks with labels saying they contain graphene or biomass graphene is being…
Health Canada recalls six hand sanitizers
Health Canada is recalling six brands of hand sanitizers that are made with industrial-grade ethanol.…
Inhalation of household cleaners tops list as calls to poison control centres double
Calls to Canadian poison control centres due to to the exposure of day-to-day cleaning products…
Government approved cannabis facility expected to break ground soon in Lumby
VERNON – A medical marijuana company has the green light from Health Canada to build…
Health Canada pulls illegal weight loss product from Kelowna store
KELOWNA – Health Canada is warning consumers in the Okanagan that a health supplement store…
Health Canada medical grow ops continue to defy regulation
KELOWNA – With attention focused on the looming legalization of cannabis, it’s easy to forget…
Supervised drug consumption sites in Kamloops and Kelowna to expand services
More changes are coming to the supervised illegal drug consumption sites in Kamloops and Kelowna.…
RCMP, Hazmat and Health Canada at scene of suspected drug lab in Vernon
VERNON – Police, along with Health Canada and the Vernon Fire Department’s Hazmat team, are…
Last day for Vernon walk-in clinic brings concerns for medical marijuana patients
VERNON – Patients were lined up outside the closing Gartree Medical Clinic this morning, many…
Licensed Vernon grow-op raided by police found in violation of city bylaw
VERNON – Police have yet to lay any charges after raiding two grow-ops in Vernon…
Vernon couple upset about pot odour won’t get much help from Health Canada
HEALTH CANADA NO LONGER CONDUCTING INSPECTIONS OF HOME-BASED GROW-OPS VERNON – There appear to be…
From miracle to ‘my little secret’: How four Okanagan patients are using medical marijuana
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN – Medical marijuana is fraught with politics, from local police departments warning dispensaries to…
Why a Vernon doctor will help patients with their marijuana
"I'VE HAD PEOPLE WITH STAGE FOUR CANCER SAYING 'I'VE GOT TO BUY IT ON THE…
Kamloops’ first medical marijuana grow op gets city approval
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops’ first medical marijuana grow operation went to public hearing last night and was approved unanimously by council. No one, not even the proponent, spoke for or against the operation yesterday, Oct. 20, at the public hearing, though there was one piece of correspondence submitted by Maxine Charlton of M-3 Management who opposed the...
What Interior residents need to know about the killer gas radon
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - It sounds like something from a thriller sci-fi movie - a colourless, odorless radioactive gas that seeps from the ground, infiltrates buildings and kills people. In real life, radon gas is a known carcinogen, the second leading cause of lung cancer accounting for 10 per cent of cases and is found in elevated...
Kamloops doctor explains why he wants to open the city’s first marijuana grow op
KAMLOOPS – A Kamloops doctor could become the proprietor of the city’s first medical marijuana grow operation. Neurosurgeon Dr. Richard Brownlee sees the grow op as both a business and research opportunity. Brownlee opened the Welcome Back MRI and Pain Management Centre in 2008 and while he operates on things like brain tumours, the vast...
What the Supreme Court decision on marijuana means to a three-year-old Summerland girl
KELOWNA – Kyla Williams' family is breathing a sigh of relief this week — they…