Top Stories – Oct 25 – Locals On DD

A viewing party is planned at Okanagan College November 3 to watch a Kelowna company make its pitch on Dragons’ Den. Earlier this year, Second Slumber attempted to sell its business model to the reality show stars, looking for a funding partner to scale up its business, which re-purposes and re-sells lightly used mattresses. For more info go to the Okanagan College Kelowna website and scroll down to news.

The Province is taking steps to build safer workplaces for health-care workers and patients. It’s introducing a new security model hiring more protection services employees and expanding funding to a new organization focused on workplace safety. About 320 in-house protection services officers and 14 violence prevention leads will be hired to help create a safer environment.

Quebec’s professional Order of Nurses is launching a campaign this Halloween to encourage Quebecers to ditch “sexy costumes” in favour of more realistic nursing uniforms. The group calls the nurse costumes sold in retail stores “scary” and says nursing deserves respect as a scientific profession.

West Kelowna RCMP recently got to know a number of drivers on Highway 97C near Highway 97. 50 tickets, mostly for speeding in a construction zone, and 46 warnings were given out and 11 drivers were told they didn’t have appropriate tires for Winter conditions on the highway. Winter tires or chains are required on most highway routes in BC from October 1 to April 30.

Interior Health has launched a youth poster contest called ‘Take a Breath: Teen Voices on Tobacco & Vaping’, for youth living in the Interior. Teens who want to participate have until Nov. 15 to submit their entries for a chance to win a $150 gift card of their choice. More information on how to enter the contest is at interiorhealth.ca/takeabreath .

Apple is taking a bigger bite out of your technology wallet. The company is raising the cost of its Music and TV-Plus services in Canada. Music’s base price for a single listener account will rise $1 to $10.99 per month, while access to the Apple TV Plus video streaming platform will jump 3 bucks to 8.99 per month. The decision comes as many of the major streaming platforms look for ways to boost revenues amid inflation and the rising costs of film and TV production.

Canada’s competition watchdog is launching a study to examine whether the highly concentrated grocery sector is contributing to rising food costs. The Competition Bureau will provide a set of recommendations for the government in its final report in June. Grocery prices in September rose at the fastest pace since 1981.

RCMP have identified two people found dead between Penticton and Summerland last month. Alanna Brown and Douglas Barker, both of Penticton and 30 years old, were found by the Summerland Fire Department which was responding to a vehicle fire on a road next to the Penticton Shooting Range. Police are treating the deaths as suspicious.

Some experts are hopeful Canada’s relations with Britain will get some stability now that former U.K. finance minister Rishi Sunak is prime minister. The turmoil in British politics had raised concerns that talks for a new Canada-U.K. free trade deal would slow down, as Britain once again searched for a new leader. Sunak is the third British P-M in less than two months.

Sports

Two goals in less than a minute at the beginning of the third period helped the Carolina Hurricanes to a 3-2 win at Rogers Arena and hand the Canucks their 7th straight loss to start the season.

Toronto Raptors are now 2 & 2 on the season after a 98-90 win over Miami last night.

Monday Night Football was at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, but it was the Chicago Bears that left with a 33-14 win over New England.

And when you’re watching the World Series later this week, pay attention to the Philadelphia bench. Rob Thomson is the first Canadian full-time major-league manager since the 1930s.