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Nurses rally at Merritt's hospital demanding better security and more staff
April 17, 2024 - 2:30 PM

Nurses at the Nicola Valley Hospital in Merritt spent the lunch hour today protesting staffing shortages and demanding increased security.
Mandatory vaccines for nurses making hospitals even more unsafe: union
September 14, 2021 - 6:00 PM

A decades-long shortage of trained nurses in B.C. is going to be made worse if hundreds, even thousands, of nurses have to stop work because they’re not vaccinated against COVID.
B.C. nurses union says Interior Health failing Kamloops hospital workers during pandemic
February 08, 2021 - 2:30 PM

The B.C. Nurses Union has some scathing criticism of Interior Health's handling of frontline workers during the pandemic, pointing to an outbreak of COVID-19 at Royal Inland Hospital in Kamloops as an example of the dire impact the pandemic is having on nurses.
Hundreds of new nurses coming to the Southern Interior
January 19, 2016 - 4:39 PM

THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - Hundreds of new registered nurses are being recruited to work in local hospitals under a new provincial agreement, the health minister announced today.
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iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
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iN VIDEO: Kamloops baker gives crash course on making the perfect macaron
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Court agrees with ban on medical marijuana advertising in Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Medical marijuana businesses in Mississippi don't have the right to advertise on billboards or other places because marijuana itself remains illegal under federal law, an appeals court says. The owner of a me

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Nurses rally at Merritt's hospital demanding better security and more staff