Acute care returns to hospital
Provincial Health Minister George Abbott announces designation change and increase in the number of beds

Sandor Gyarmati
The Delta Optimist

Saturday, July 12, 2008

CREDIT: photo by Robert Shaer
Health Minister George Abbott was at Delta Hospital yesterday morning to deliver some good news. He was joined by MLA Val Roddick, Coun. Scott Hamilton and others.

Delta Hospital will have acute care beds again, provincial Health Minister George Abbott announced yesterday.

Joined by Fraser Health, Delta Hospital Foundation and other officials at the hospital, Abbott announced the hospital's existing 38 sub-acute rehabilitation beds are to be converted into acute medical beds.

There are also going to be 12 new beds and additional staff. The hospital will also get a CT scanner as part of the upgrade.

by Anna Mehler Paperny

VANCOUVER - The BC Transmission Corporation is still recording Delta residents' opposition to a controversial power-line project even as the BC Information and Privacy Commissioner investigates whether the Crown corporation has already violated people's privacy.

Residents say that affidavits, e-mails, photo and video describing them and their actions opposing the project violate their privacy and are being used by the BCTC to intimidate them. The coporation says it was just gathering evidence for a request for an injunction that would guarantee them access to the properties, and is still gathering evidence in case it needs another injunction.

Casino cash under scrutiny
Published: May 28, 2008 1:00 AM
The provincial and federal governments are checking into reports that B.C. casinos are being used to launder large amounts of money by people posing as high-rolling gamblers.

CBC News reported this week that its reporters were able to go into casinos, feed thousands of dollars in cash into slot machines, then exchange the credits for a casino cheque after little or no actual gambling.

Provincial and federal laws require that suspicious transactions be reported to provincial gaming enforcement officials and the federal agency responsible for policing financial transactions. Documents released under freedom of information legislation showed that suspicious incidents were reported by casino staff, but many of those did not end up being reported to Ottawa as the law requires.

By Tom Fletcher

VICTORIA - The provincial and federal governments are checking into reports that BC casinos are being used to launder large amounts of money by people posing aas high-rolling gamblers.

CBC News reported last week that its reporters were able to go into casinos, feed thougsands of dollars in cash in slot machines, then exchange the credits for a casino cheque after little or no actual gambling.

Provincial and federal laws require that suspicious transactions be reported to provincial gaming enforcement officials and the federal agency responsible for policing financial transactions. Documents released under freedom of information legislation showed that suspicious incidents were reported by casino staff, but many of those did not end up being reported to Ottawa as the law reuqires.

Letter to the Editor
Re: A museum for North Delta.

I woult like to thank MLA Guy Gentner for raising the idea of emenities in return for the destruction being proposed for the South Fraser Perimeter Road (SFPR), but I think he is being a little partisan in his suggestions.

How likely are the Liberals to fund a museum in North Delta when the recurring questions will be "where did the homes of those fishing peioneers go?" The Liberals' SFPR would be the answer.

"Why haven't the aboriginal communities been able to explore their heritage through archaeology?" The Liberals' SFPR black-topped all the world-renowned heritage sites.

I think Gentner knows the museum would be just one embarrassment after another for the BC Liberals.

I would like to suggest an amenity that has been long-awaited in Delta: a Burns Bog Interpretive Centre... oops, now I have fallen into the same trap. People will ask, whatever happened to Burns Bog?