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So what happens when your autistic child grows up?

KELOWNA - It’s called "the cliff" and its something the mother of an autistic child says can keep her awake at night. From birth to age six, a child diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder is eligible for $22,000 a year to help parents with treatment and intensive intervention. After that, provincial government support drops to...

Student apartment proposed for Rutland raises concerns about parking, not parties

KELOWNA - Concerns from city councillors about a student housing complex proposed for the Rutland town centre are focused not on the party potential of the 72 college students who might live there, but on potential parking problems. The 4.5-storey 23-unit apartment building proposed for Dundas Road and Highway 33 would provide students housing in...

Liquor store faces little opposition in UBCO neighbourhood

KELOWNA - Imagine, if you will, an application to open a liquor store in Kelowna that faced little opposition from local neighbours and in fact, will likely be warmly embraced when it finally does open. That’s because the neighbours in the building on Academy Way where the liquor store will be located are by and...

ELECTION 2015: We could do way more to help youth vote, says UBCO professor

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - A local professor who conducted his own youth voting campaign thinks we could do a lot more to get young people into a voting booth. “I had students on the last day asking about how they can vote back home. A lot of students don’t live here, their home address is somewhere...

ELECTION 2015: No advance polls for Kelowna’s UBCO and Okanagan College

KELOWNA - There is nothing underhanded about the lack of advance polls on the Okanagan College and UBCO campuses during a recent pilot project aimed at post-secondary schools, at least according to an Elections Canada spokesperson. Dorothy Sitek, a spokeperson for Elections Canada, says a pilot project from Oct. 5 to 8 put advance polls...

Kelowna’s underground water source showing signs of stress

KELOWNA - A UBC Okanagan hydrogeologist says the huge Rutland aquifer running under Kelowna, which is the water source for thousands of residents, is showing signs of stress. And that means it’s time for a well-designed technical management plan of both ground and surface water sources in the Central Okanagan, Dr. Craig Nichol says, pointing...

More than 30,000 Kelowna students find their seats this week

CENTRAL OKANAGAN - Thousands of students found their way to new classrooms this week as school resumed at all levels. UBC Okanagan says some 8,400 students began classes this week, while several thousand more started at Okanagan College and another 22,000 started grade school in the Central Okanagan School District. In a press release, UBCO says...

Bird book inspired by UBCO’s bio-diversity

KELOWNA - If you’re looking for hot chicks, look no further than the Birds of the UBC Okanagan Campus 2016 calendar. Produced by biologists, the annual calendar features some of the birds that can be found on the school’s campus. Photographers this year ranged across the entire 209 hectares of campus grounds and includes bluebirds,...

UBC Okanagan campus magazine grabs readers with satire

KELOWNA – Class Magazine is a new publication at UBC Okanagan with a focus on campus news and culture, but it’s the satire section grabbing all the attention online The magazine has been featuring the faux articles on its website to help promote the hard copy distributed on campus. The latest headline reads, “McGill University announces...

Where’d the wild things go? The rise and fall of UBCO as a party school

KELOWNA - As a 19-year-old in his second year of university, the Cascade street parties were surreal to me — they were a college movie come to life. On any weekend (the warm ones at least) you could walk out of a rez room and immediately be swept up in a swarm of woo-girls and fist-pumping...

Making a better helmet to help reduce brain injuries

KELOWNA – Researchers in Kelowna are part of an international team of researchers are working on applications for a new gel-like material that absorbs the shock from impacts.  A pair of professors from Imperial College London were in Kelowna this past week working with UBC Okanagan’s new Survive and Thrive Applied Research or STAR facility....