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Cougar attacks dog in British Properties backyard BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Conservation officers are warning the public after a cougar attacked a dog in West Vancouver Monday.
FAMILY FUN Eleven-month-old Amelia Phillips, held aloft by her dad, gets a bird’s eye view of the Easter egg hunt at John Lawson Park on Sunday. Children raced to collect chocolate eggs scattered by members of the Ambleside Tiddlycove Lions Club. Turn to page 4 for our photo spread of weekend Easter events and activities across the North Shore. To view more images, go to nsnews.com. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN
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Nikki Johnson and her fiancé were doing yard work at her uncle’s rented home on the 600 block of Stevens Drive just before noon when they noticed his weimaraner Grayson had wandered out of eyeshot. As they moved into the backyard, which adjoins Hadden Creek, they heard Grayson yelp. That’s when they spotted the cougar just steps from the back porch. “(Grayson) was crying but he was able to run to us. My boyfriend just looked the cougar straight in the eye and it decided to turn around and go back into the bush,” Johnson said. The commotion even drew four coyotes out of their nearby den. “It was really weird,”
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Candidates highlight health care
JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
Health care is an area of government that voters experience up close and personal.
Whether you’ve sat waiting in emergency with a child whose temperature won’t go down, tried to get home care for an aging parent or
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searched in vain for a family doctor, health care impacts everyone directly. It’s no surprise, then, that improving access to that care is at the top of all parties’ to-do lists for health care. Better care of seniors is among the NDP’s priorities when it comes to health care, said Bowinn Ma, the party’s candidate in North
Vancouver-Lonsdale. “We know that nine out of 10 seniors care homes throughout the province do not receive an adequate level of funding to provide a basic minimum level of care,” she said. The NDP will boost that funding, she said, as well as increase funding for home support and increase the scope of
services provided so seniors can stay at home longer. The NDP is also critical of what they call the Liberals’ failed plan to increase access to family doctors. “We know it hasn’t worked,” said Ma, citing the approximately 700,000 people in B.C. who still don’t have a family doctor – “myself
included.” The party plans to address some of that demand for health care through the creation of new “urgent care centres” which would include nurse practitioners and other health care professionals as well as doctors. But so far, NDP leader John Horgan
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