News Items tag as: alcohol

Kamloops couple joins non-alcoholic beverage trend with new mocktail business
January 07, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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Kamloops residents can now easily access, experience, and enjoy a wide variety of non-alcoholic beverages thanks to a couple who saw a gap in the market and worked to fill it.
Medications for alcoholism lacking in BC despite being deadlier than opioids
August 07, 2023 - 6:00 AM

It may have taken a back seat to the overdose crisis, but more than three times as many people died of alcohol than opioids in BC in 2019.
B.C.'s alcohol 'spike' during COVID starting to wane
January 23, 2023 - 6:00 AM
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It is true that Canadians drank more alcohol during COVID than before but the reality for B.C. residents is that amounted to an average of about 11 more drinks in a year.
Easy access to booze helped boost COVID pandemic drinking in Interior Health: study
December 16, 2021 - 1:00 PM
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The Interior Health region had the highest per capita alcohol consumption rate in B.C. during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new University of Victoria study.
Drinking? Arrive Home Safely!
January 01, 2020 - 12:00 AM

Alcohol and the holiday season are a cultural match, but before going out, we need to make arrangements to arrive home safely after the party is over.
Self harm among Okanagan youth higher than rest of province
December 05, 2014 - 10:42 AM

OKANAGAN – The results of a province-wide survey on the health of B.C. adolescents shows that young people in the Okanagan are more likely to participate in activities that risk their health than teens in the rest of the province.
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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

News Items tag as: alcohol

Kamloops couple joins non-alcoholic beverage trend with new mocktail business

Medications for alcoholism lacking in BC despite being deadlier than opioids

B.C.'s alcohol 'spike' during COVID starting to wane

Easy access to booze helped boost COVID pandemic drinking in Interior Health: study

Drinking? Arrive Home Safely!

Self harm among Okanagan youth higher than rest of province

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