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Sampson elected as new hospital district board chair

“toxic drug crisis” = unregulated drugs. The NDP only danced around the scourge of illegal drugs & the approach now will unlikely improve things. Wonder how the uptight right can blame the NDP for the same drug issues in Edmonton, Seattle, & thru all of N America? 99% of drug o.d.’s are thru unregulated drugs. Evidence shows those who access medical grade regulated drugs have less interactions with the criminal justice & health care systems. Watch 5th Estate War on Safe Drugs. Alcohol causes many types of cancer, other health issues, & is a factor in numerous crimes. But we all know it would be worse if liquor was illegal. Same with illegal drugs. The war on drugs is a an abysmal failure & leads to a more unsafe & dangerous society. Can’t arrest your way to Nirvana. It’s too bad politicians listen to the shrill tone of the uptight right. Unfortunately, the hue & cry of being “tough on [drug] crime” gets points with the electorate & so politicians don’t follow science & evidence.

- Mr Science

Hopefully this drip doesn’t get paid for this appointed position?

No place to go: An unhoused senior shares his story

Our government is a criminal organization. They send these poor people’s money away to foreign lands to support vegan, gender neutral solar panels. The left in this country are a literal insane asylum…

Sampson elected as new hospital district board chair

Well you can hear this voice from a Senior. We have large area in the Hospital , where seniors are waiting for placement , and it takes six months or more, go and have a look.

- FHR

Sampson elected as new hospital district board chair

YAY!!! MORE FREE MONEY AND RIDE ALONGS FOR KYLE...WE LOVE YOU KYLE.......NOT!!!!!

- Sea K

“Health minister says the pilot project, launched in 2023, did not achieve the desired effect”A brain damaged monkey on crack could have told you this wasn’t going to work. Who got rich off this scheme? How many died? An entire generation sideswiped by this insanity. Where is the accountability?… Clown 🇨🇦

Didn’t work eh? Shocking! How much did the average life expectancy go down in the meantime?

Sampson elected as new hospital district board chair

Can Kyle move on to greener pastures please??!!

What outcome was produced? Thousands dead and more made mentally disabled? Who will answer for that? Anyone with a shred of common sense would know this was only going to end one way. Even after the police reported the safe supply drugs were being found by the thousands in raids, what was done? “She pointed to hundreds of new treatment and recovery beds opened across the province, reduced wait times for withdrawal management, and overdose-prevention measures such as Take Home Naloxone and supervised consumption services, which the province says have prevented tens of thousands of deaths.”All of which wasn’t necessary prior to this. But now drug use and overdose death has skyrocketed, thanks to their failed program.At least Purdue Pharma probably made a mountain of money from this twisted experiment, that cost thousands of people their lives. If this wasn’t a catastrophic failure, I don’t know what is. And no one will ever face the music.

- Zangief

Sampson elected as new hospital district board chair

A real winner of an idea by a leftist government living in la-la land that created and exacerbated a nightmarish criminal landscape that continues to affect honest, hardworking taxpayers to this day. Good riddance.Another real winner idea from the NDP politburo that needs to be thrown in the trash can as a miserable failure is integrative supportive housing.The only solution is segregation and involuntary care.

- BGeez

Fraser-Fort George Regional Hospital District has a new chairman. Congratulation Kyle, you said "you had a few clear priorities: to make sure everyone’s voices around the table are heard, to make sure the hospital district maintains a stable funding model and to advance legislative reform to remake the hospital district funding model." Easy words to say, harder to maintain, just common words of a politician. Does this mean the heli pad is going to be re-erected. Regional hospital district that is responsible for contributing funding towards its local health authority’s capital costs for projects within its borders, by raising the funding through taxes. Does this mean you would levee further tax on the people. As you have voted for over your years as a councilor. Finally you want everyone`s voices are to be heard or only heard if they coincide with yours.

- milton mahoney

Regional district eying 3.75 per cent increase to tax revenues in 2026

3.75% is nothing......just wait until the acute care tower is finished at UHNBC.Expect an increase of 30%.

- BGeez

Fentanyl crisis put front and centre for public safety committee

Remember the “generational harms” the B.C. NDP preached on in all their election campaigns? Well, now they have joined the club and have committed generational harms with their insane “de stigmatizing” and “decriminalization”. It’s just baffling how they thought any of this would reduce drugs problems. Where is the accountability? They just decimate an entire generation and it’s all good because they claim to have good intentions?… what kind of a place has this become?…

SD57 limits kindergarten enrolment at Heritage, leaves College Heights cap in place

Hopefully we can do away with French immersion once Canada breaks apart after Alberta votes to separate. What would be your first choice? Join America, be annexed by America or be a failed state called British Columbia?

No place to go: An unhoused senior shares his story

Decriminalized weed didn't work either. Only full legalization and quality control will stop drug deaths. And take out the criminal mobs and gangs who profit

- Ron Nemeth

On the first floor of the Hospital , there is - and I am going to call it a holding tank , for SENIORS that need placement. You do not know it is there un till you have a family member that needs help. It takes months to find placement , could it be because we are taking in people from other areas?

- FHR

Council asks city staff to serve up food charter ideas

Interesting ideas, but it all just seems like all it amounts to is talk.As for using vacant lots as community gardens. There are community gardens in town. Who's utilizing them? It’s a wonderful idea in theory, but in practice it appears to be a flop.I feel like the statistic about 25.5 precent of all Canadians not having enough to eat is over inflated. Never heard of anyone starving to death here. And there seems to be a plethora of options for people struggling with food security. While I’d love to see more locally produced food, it is just becoming less viable. Thats why there has been a bakery for sale for about six years. And a long history, of long gone food producers. Most people would prefer to buy their food at walmart for less.“The Lheidli T’enneh, they said, have an history of more than 9,000 year of food self-sufficiency through hunting, foraging and agricultural practices “Can anyone tell me more about the agriculture?

- Zangief

Premier to visit city for BC Natural Resources Forum

David Eby from the No Development Party leading a natural resources forum is like Ronald McDonald leading a nutrition forum…