Capital Report~January 29, 2010
Schoolchildren receive Olympic pins from Premier Gordon Campbell while backstage at the Torch Relay community celebration in Kamloops. |
 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY VISITS B.C. INTERIOR This week the Olympic Torch Relay made its way through B.C.'s interior region and headed north. With two weeks until the Games begin it's clear the excitement is spreading across the province.   35 B.C. ATHLETES MAKE CANADIAN OLYMPIC TEAM Thirty-five B.C. athletes have been named to the Canadian Olympic Team and will have the distinct honour of representing their country at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games on home soil.  PRINCETON WINS GOLD, NAMED GAMESTOWN 2010 The town of Princeton rallied together to proudly display its healthy living and Olympic spirit and capture the coveted title of GamesTown 2010, Premier Gordon Campbell announced. CABIN GAS PLANT PROJECT APPROVED EnCana Corporation (the proponent) has received an environmental assessment certificate for its Cabin Gas Plant Project the project will contribute approximately $2.2 billion to provincial GDP and $1.2 billion to GDP in northeast B.C.   | "Vancouver is poised for a substantial rebound. In addition to the boost provided by the Olympic Winter Games, housing construction and consumer spending are forecast to rebound strongly this year." Mario Lefebvre, Director Centre of Municipal Studies. Conference Board of Canada, News Release, January 27, 2010. |
|  |  | | Premier Gordon Campbell congratulates Mayor Randy McLean on Princeton being named GamesTown 2010. | |  | | Watch videos of the most recent Olympic Torch Community Celebrations. | |
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| Norm Letnick MLA, Kelowna-Lake Country. |
| Commenting on the funding for the Interior Heart and Surgical Centre project which will build on the cardiac transition plan currently underway at Kelowna General Hospital (KGH):
"This centre will provide jobs for doctors and researchers who will be graduating from our University, and will help to meet the increasing demand for these services in our community." 
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