RM of Lansdowne and the RM of Langford: no plans for amalgamation
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- Published on Thursday, January 31, 2013
By: Kate Jackman-Atkinson
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With the province’s deadline for preliminary amalgamation plans approaching, municipalities are taking different plans of action. In November, the province announced that all municipalities with less than 1,000 residents would have to have plans in place to amalgamate with a neighbour in order to reach that threshold for the 2014 municipal election.
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Diagnosing what ails the health care system
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- Published on Thursday, January 31, 2013
By: Kate Jackman-Atkinson
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Last week, the Health Council of Canada released a report titled “How do Canadian primary care physicians rate the health system?”. The report was based on survey results from the 2012 Commonwealth Fund International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Doctors and examines physicians’ perspectives on the performance of their country’s health care system.
Province providing local governments new tools to support municipal amalgamations
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- Published on Thursday, January 31, 2013
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The provincial government is providing new tools for municipalities as they develop their amalgamation plans in consultation with citizens.
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Elphinstone RCMP investigate armed robbery
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- Published on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
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On Jan. 24 at about 11:30 p.m, Elphinstone RCMP were dispatched to a complaint of an armed robbery that had occurred at the gaming centre on the Keeseekoowenin First Nation.
