Monthly Archives: February 2014

On February 20 to 23, Special Olympics BC basketball players from all over the province will take to the court at the BC Games for the first time ever.The Mission 2014 BC Winter Games will include a Special Olympics Basketball division for the first time at this event, featuring seven teams of SOBC athletes ages […]

Special Olympics Basketball makes its debut at this year’s BC Winter Games in Mission. Published: February 22, 2014 2:00 PM Updated: February 22, 2014 3:51 PM by Alex Butler Black Press ********** Vancouver Island-Central Coast took on North West on Saturday in Special Olympics basketball at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, and […]

Posted on: January 28, 2014 – 12:52pm Provincial Ombudsperson Kim Carter released today her office’s latest report Time Matters: An Investigation into the BC Employment and Assistance Reconsideration Process. The report identifies that the Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation was not meeting its own legislated requirements to complete reconsideration decisions within specified time […]

Extreme Air Park disparages mother 2:09 Autistic boy’s mother is livid RAW 3:05 The mother of an autistic child is livid with a Langley, B.C., theme park after she received a crude email in response to a complaint she made about the park’s admission policies. Kelly Moonie, left, says she has never had a problem with […]

Tessa Schmidt ‘ecstatic’ about return of wheels By Viviana Zanocco, CBC News Posted: Feb 17, 2014 4:55 PM PT Last Updated: Feb 17, 2014 4:58 PM PT ► Tessa Schmidt will get wheelchair 2:12 The Ministry of Social Development and Social Innovation has reconsidered a decision to deny a replacement power wheelchair to a disabled woman. […]

Author: BC Winter Games/Saturday, February 22, 2014/Categories: 2014 BC Winter Games, Basketball – Special Olympics Vancouver Squamish took home a win against Fraser Valley 2, beating them 27 to 11 on Saturday in Special Olympics basketball at the University of the Fraser Valley. Vancouver Squamish played a strong low-post game, scoring a lot of their […]

Author: BC Winter Games/Saturday, February 22, 2014/Categories: 2014 BC Winter Games, Basketball – Special Olympics Vancouver Squamish took home a win against Fraser Valley 2, beating them 27 to 11 on Saturday in Special Olympics basketball at the University of the Fraser Valley. Vancouver Squamish played a strong low-post game, scoring a lot of their […]

Summary: Inclusion BC congratulates all parties on the ratification of a five-year contract in the community social services sector in British Columbia. It is particularly important that the government has expressed its commitment to fully fund the agreement. (See press releases from: CSSEA, BCGEU, Provincial Government) This is a positive indication that it has learned […]