[ad_1] London’s downtown core is “growing in the right direction,” according to a recently-released report about its economic health and prosperity in 2016 and 2017. The 2017 State of the Downtown report, which is released every two years, says the core’s workforce grew by 2,000 jobs, the retail vacancy dropped from 7.9 per cent to[…]
[ad_1] At 6’9″, Geoff Summers is an imposing figure. The 31-year-old used to be a bar bouncer but on Dec. 2, 2018, while on the job, Summers was shot and nearly lost his life. Summers spent two months recovering in hospital from the bullet wound and was just released last week. He told Global News[…]
[ad_1] Respect plays a big part in enforcing the law in Kelowna’s drug-riddled downtown core. At least that’s the approach of two Kelowna RCMP officers who say arresting their way out of the problem is not going to solve anything. In part two of our two part series on policing the downtown core, Kelly Hayes[…]