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Sep 19, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
Residents in the Yankee Flats and Silver Creek area of the Shuswap are exploring legal action against a local compost facility. The neighbours surrounding the Spa Hills Farm say there is a lack of oversight and regulation of the business. Deneed Tomlinson describes living next to the facility as "horrific.""There's plastic all over my horse pasture, there's meat chunks that the birds are dropping into the pen, into our yard," she said.
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Jun 21, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
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Jun 15, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Doyle Potenteau |Travis Lowe
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
As a professional race car driver, Scott Hargrove is used to risking his life on the track. But his latest track risk may be one of the biggest he’s ever taken: Transforming a warehouse in Kelowna into an indoor go-kart track. The former home of Campion Boats, the building near Sexsmith Road and Highway 97 now houses not one, but two tracks.
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May 28, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
Nothing is certain except death and taxes. And that includes taxes on capital gains. Recently, there’s been plenty of talk about how this tax policy will soon change. And it’s been getting plenty of attention, even though government data says it affects less than one per cent of the nation’s population. While no one likes tax increases, what exactly is a capital gain?
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May 15, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Doyle Potenteau |Travis Lowe
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Doyle Potenteau |Travis Lowe
Heather Seminiuk doesn’t mince words when it comes to fraud. “I kind of liken it to a new financial pandemic, if you will,” said Seminiuk, who works for Valley First, a division of First West Credit Union. A branch manager in Keremeos, B.C., Seminiuk teaches seminars on the subject. “Investment scams, grandparent scams, tech support scams, home improvement scams and the biggest one is the romance scam,” she said.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
globalnews.ca | Travis Lowe
According to Statistics Canada, the nation’s population is now comprised of more millennials than baby boomers. But as boomers age out of the workforce, the country is facing what Stats Canada is calling a “looming wave of retirement.”So this month on Money Tips Monday, it’s Part 2 of Global Okanagan’s retirement planning segment. How much money you’ll need to retire with is a complex question with a complex answer. Because the answer is: It depends.
