News Items tag as: BC boating laws

New fee to licence pleasure craft being considered by Transport Canada
November 27, 2020 - 2:35 PM

Transport Canada wants to hear what you think about proposed changes to the licensing of pleasure craft that include a new $15 fee.
Three charged after safety check on Okanagan Lake
July 31, 2016 - 3:30 PM

KELOWNA - The rules of the road still apply when cruising the Okanagan waterways.
Staying safe on Southern Interior lakes and rivers
July 01, 2016 - 9:30 AM

OKANAGAN - The summer is underway and that means boaters and swimmers are eagerly hitting the lakes and waterways.
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THOMPSON: Is dining etiquette a thing of the past?
OPINION I read a recent article that tried to make a case for getting rid of some rules of dining etiquette. Those rules, said the writer, “are made to be broken.” The writer’s logic seems flawed, at

$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

New fee to licence pleasure craft being considered by Transport Canada