News Items tag as: Kelowna Supervised Consumption

Four-month check up for Interior Health’s OD RVs
September 27, 2017 - 9:00 PM

Now that Health Canada will allow people to use the pill or powdered from of illegal drugs at the supervised consumption sites in Kamloops and Kelowna, Interior Health is hoping more drug users will take advantage of the safer space.
Supervised drug consumption sites in Kamloops and Kelowna to expand services
September 22, 2017 - 4:52 PM

More changes are coming to the supervised illegal drug consumption sites in Kamloops and Kelowna.
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Chefs mourn for Okanagan's peaches but adapt to stone fruit wipeout
Chef Gus Stieffenhofer-Brandson says that when it comes to a fat Okanagan peach, there are "endless possibilities" for a fruit that signifies summer. Maybe a salad? “They play so nicely together with nice blackcurrant leaf o

Kelowna woman loses legal fight with housing co-op over medical cannabis
A Kelowna woman who wanted to smoke medical marijuana in her unit has lost a legal battle against her housing cooperative. According to a June 26 BC Civil Resolution Tribunal decision, Natausha Couture argued the Okanagan Housing Cooperativ

Prospective Kelowna homebuyers backed out of deal, ordered to pay over $300K
It was too late to back out when prospective homebuyers in Kelowna were refused a mortgage last year. The bank said the home wasn't worth the agreed upon $1.1 million and wouldn't lend the money. Although the bank appeared to be cor

Four-month check up for Interior Health’s OD RVs