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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 5d

that's fair.

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 5d

To play devil's advocate (heh), this is exactly the type of detail that needs to get into the story.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 6d

The window is wide open. Gotta push the chips in.

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 6d

It also puts the franchise on notice for the next two years.

Go big or go home.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 9d

Some news on the Chronic Wasting Disease front:
B.C. is implementing a hunt around Cranbrook in January 2026, where licensed hunters can harvest another deer.
Intent is to collect more samples for testing to determine disease prevalence.
www.cranbrooktownsman.com/local-news/b...

B.C. implements January deer hunt around Cranbrook due to wildlife disease

The province is implementing a hunt for deer around Cranbrook to collect more samples for Chronic Wasting Disease

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 11d

Quite the transition from "don't be evil" to "defend the establishment"

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 11d

File from yesterday's event marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
www.cranbrooktownsman.com/local-news/h...

Hundreds walk for truth and reconciliation

ʔaq̓am event marks history and transformation of the former St. Eugene residential school

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 11d

Always a profound experience to participate in the walk for truth and reconciliation in ʔaq̓am.
The St. Eugene resort itself is a former residential school site that closed in 1970.
It was purchased by the Ktunaxa Nation over 25 years ago & transformed into what it is today.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 18d

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Jimmy Kimmel @jimmykimmel.com · 18d

As I was saying…

Jimmy Kimmel is Back!

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 19d

File from colleague Mark Page yesterday.

B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad kicked Surrey—Cloverdale MLA Elenore Sturko out of the party on Monday afternoon, reportedly accusing her of organizing against him.

www.cranbrooktownsman.com/news/breakin...

'Blindsided': Rustad kicks Surrey MLA Elenore Sturko out of B.C. Conservatives

The news of the Surrey—Cloverdale MLA’s ousting follows Rustad’s leadership review

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 23d

Full story from yesterday's trip out to Bull River to observe a prescribed burn, as part of the Kootenay ʔa·kinq̓uku TREX (training exchange).
Really appreciate the opportunity to tag along.
www.cranbrooktownsman.com/local-news/t...

Training exchange highlights value of fire on the landscape

Kootenay ʔa·kinq̓uku TREX is a training exchange program centred on sharing knowledge around the use of fire on the landscape

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 23d

It's print deadline day so that means big news has to drop in the middle of paginating the paper.
Anyway, the City of Cranbrook's application to the New Spaces Fund was successful.
New $13.5M daycare (123 spaces) will be located beside WFP.
www.cranbrooktownsman.com/local-news/p...

Province awards $13.5M grant for new daycare in Cranbrook

The province is providing a $13.5 million grant to construct a daycare on land beside Western Financial Place.

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 23d

NEW: The City of Cranbrook's New Spaces Fund application was successful; the province has approved $13.5M towards a new daycare that will be located beside Western Financial Place where the exercise equipment and gazebo are currently located.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 24d

Grateful for the invite to a prescribed burn in the Bull River area near Cranbrook this afternoon, which was a part of the Kootenay ʔa·kinq̓uku TREX (training exchange).
Really interesting to see the real-time operation of a prescribed burn and watching how that training was put into practice.

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 26d

BC's premier is holding a presser about LNG expansion and a rare opportunity to ask questions about things like climate goals and Indigenous partnerships, and media keep asking Qs about Eby hiring a comedian as a speechwriter... 🫠

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 26d

COLUMN: EKRH in Cranbrook is getting a new building for renal and oncology services.
The province approved a 3rd floor after lobbying from local officials, but won't contribute funding towards it.
That's a galling decision.
www.cranbrooktownsman.com/columns/opin...

OPINION: Dollars and sense on delivering rural health care infrastructure

While the province has committed to renal and oncology expansion, it won't fund the 3rd floor of a new planned building at EKRH

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 27d

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Richard Zussman @richardzussman.bsky.social · 27d

NEW - The BC Conservatives have cancelled a scheduled caucus meeting in Kelowna on Thursday. Leader John Rustad was asked to leave caucus on Friday after concerns were raised about membership sales. When he was gone, MLAs expressed concerns about keeping Rustad as leader. #bcpoli

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · 29d

Some weekend news:

Cranbrook's "recreation complex "will remain Western Financial Place, as Western Financial Group has renewed the naming rights agreement for another 5 years.

Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 12

...Weir participated in the groundbreaking ceremony for the F.W. Green Memorial Home expansion project in Cranbrook yesterday.
At the end of today's meting, the hospital board adjourned to closed.
I suspect Weir is getting an earful about the need for an EKRH master plan, among other concerns.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 12

Just got out of a quarterly Kootenay East Regional Hospital District (say that 5 times fast) board meeting.
Included a presentation from Angel Flight East Kootenay & a major capital projects update from Interior Health.
In the public gallery was Sylvia Weir interim IHA president and CEO...

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 11

Here is a chart (of our pricing schemes)

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 11

Eby came out informally (we found out through, uh, sources) in Oct. 2023 and stopped in the Townsman office for an interview. I think he was here to meet with the Ktunaxa Nation and do a heli-tour of Elk Valley waterways and mining operations, but his presence here wasn't publicly announced.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm not trying to dunk on anyone by making that observation but -

It just seemed odd that there wasn't a cabinet minister present for a $232 million project.

Lots of local dignitaries were present though, even those who weren't a part of the formal program.

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 11

Full story:
"Today is about breaking ground, but it's not just about breaking ground. It's about being a part of and helping to support building a better future for seniors and families in this community." - IHA interim President & CEO Sylvia Weir.
www.cranbrooktownsman.com/local-news/d...

Dignitaries break ground for F.W. Green Home expansion project

Construction has officially begun on a new long-term care facility in Cranbrook that will provide 150 beds

www.cranbrooktownsman.com

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Trevor Crawley 🇨🇦 @trevorcrawley.bsky.social · Sep 11

....there weren't any provincial gov't representatives present though; no local MLAs or provincial cabinet ministers responsible for the project, which is a bit surprising...

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