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MLA Townhall March 18 – North Westside Roads

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260311 - MLA Macklin McCall will be holding a Townhall Meeting at the Killiney Beach Community Hall at 516 Udell Road (Next to Station 101 in Killiney Beach) on March 18 2026 at 6:30 PM. You can RSVP to Macklin.McCall.MLA@LEG.BC.CA or just come to the hall and join us for the discussion...
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MLA on Policing Issues dispatched from West Kelowna

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Here is a radio address from MLA McCall on policing. This references West Kelowna as that is where police response for Wilson Landing/Traders Cove area as well as Trepanier and the Brent Road and Bear Creek Road. RCMP response for the North Westside comes from the RDNO Rural Detachment in Enderby. I...
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What Lies Behind The Trees – OFTF Documentary

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This is a documentary by the Okanagan Forest Task Force. This is the group that cleans up the illegal dump sites and vehicles that show up in the forested areas of the Electoral Areas in RDCO. They were the ones that removed...
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Notice of 2026 Parcel Tax Roll

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February 6, 2026
Notice of 2026 Parcel Tax Roll The Regional District of Central Okanagan has prepared the 2026 Parcel Tax Roll as required by Section 203 of the Community Charter. The Parcel Tax Roll lists the parcels eligible to be taxed for the following services:
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RDCO seeks feedback on 2026–2030 financial plan

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News Release

January 16, 2026

RDCO seeks feedback on 2026–2030 financial plan

The Regional District of Central Okanagan (RDCO) has published its proposed 2026–2030 financial plan and is inviting residents to review it and share feedback.

The financial plan outlines how the RDCO will fund services,...

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‘Canadians Taxed to Death’ 

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Found this online called 'Canadians Taxed to Death' Thought it was worth sharing. Canadians now pay more in taxes than they spend on housing, clothing, and food combined. From 1861 to 2023, the total tax bill for the average family skyrocketed by 2,705% To put that in perspective, housing costs, which have made...
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The Dangers of an Authoritarian Dictatorship

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260109 - How does a municipally dominated Regional District turn into an authoritarian dictatorship short answer: it doesn’t formally turn into a dictatorship, but it can function like one in practice if certain structural weaknesses and bad habits line up. My opinion? Regional districts are especially vulnerable to this because they were...
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The Fallacy of Air Quality

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260103 - The real situation regarding air quality and the ongoing smoke issues in the Okanagan Valley is not being shared. Fire Prevention and Air Quality Bylaws that regulate fires in the electoral areas of RDCO are the problem, not the solution. When these bylaws were created years ago, the primary issues...
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Tyranny of the Majority … RDCO’s greatest folly

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251205 - The "tyranny of the majority" refers to the phenomenon in a democratic system where the majority group wields too much power, often to the detriment of minority groups. This can result in oppression, discrimination, and the suppression of minority opinions and rights. The RDCO Board exemplifies this phenomenon: with the...
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The Cost of Water and Poor Leadership

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251216 - Interior Health sets tough rules for surface water pushing small systems under five hundred connections to use advanced filtration, whose cost even the bigger growing municipal setups barely manage without breaking the bank. Building a mini plant? We are talking seven figures minimum—permits, land, tech, maintenance, all brutal for tiny...
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Westside Road Transfer Sites – Upgrade Plan

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251125 - Solid waste / recycle centers for Westside Road are in two locations for convenience. The Traders Cove Station is at the south end of Westside Road at Bear Creek Main in the Traders Cove Regional Park. The North Westside Transfer Site is located at the Northern end of RDCO at...
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Road Conditions in Upper Fintry

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251125 - I have received numerous requests from and have met with residents of Upper Fintry/Muir Road area about the unpaved road network within their community. This is long overdue and should have happened in the early 2000's when the water system saw...
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Water System for North Westside

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241126 - Water is again (still) the topic that affects us all right where we live. The North Westside has six water systems three Public Systems - (Killiney, Westshores and Valley of the Sun/Upper Fintry) and three Private Systems (La Casa, Fintry Delta and Estamont). All with the exception of Valley of...
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