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Indigenous garden takes root at Kelowna campus
February 23, 2017 - 5:02 PM

Okanagan College’s Kelowna campus will soon be home to a unique greenspace containing more than 50 local Okanagan plants that are of cultural significance to Syilx people.
UBC medical anthropologist honoured with Paul Farmer award
April 23, 2013 - 1:37 PM

Global Citizenship Award presented for engaging students beyond the classroom

It is another feather in the academic cap of UBC’s Assistant Professor of Medical Anthropology Hugo De Burgos. Dr. De Burgos, who teaches medical and visual anthropology at UBC’s Okanagan campus, was recently awarded the Paul Farmer Global Citizenship Award.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability. Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo

Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

Manitoba government plans to lift ban on homegrown recreational cannabis
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is planning to end its ban on homegrown recreational cannabis — a move that would leave Quebec as the only province with such a restriction. "We're just allowing Manitobans to have the same

Kamloops council to expand tax exemptions for new rental builds
Developers have more land to choose from if they want to cut costs on new rental buildings in Kamloops. The City is looking to expand a tax exemption program to span massive swaths of Kamloops in order to encourage development. Previously r

Indigenous garden takes root at Kelowna campus