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IH says cancer center planning continues despite shelving of funding request – Kamloops News

A top Interior Health official says behind-the-scenes planning for Kamloops cancer care expansion continues despite recently shelving a funding request for a cancer services business plan.

Tracey Rannie, executive director of Royal Island Hospital for Interior Health, was grilled by Thompson Regional Hospital District directors on Thursday about the long-awaited expansion of cancer care services.

“Everyone is passionate about cancer care. There’s lots of work looking at the whole kind of suite of cancer care for the region,” Rannie told reporters after the board meeting.

“There is, you know, planning going on. Nothing’s been approved. But I will

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Why Automation is Crucial for all Small Business Owners

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own.

Most small business owners want to increase the value of their business, and they often do so over time by adjusting their marketing, coming up with new products or services or making what they do more convenient. Automation is another pathway to value that leaders often overlook because most large automation providers do not focus on selling to smaller accounts. Bringing these technologies into your small business can improve what the company is worth and, as a bonus, improve work-life balance.

Related: How to Use Automation (and Avoid the Pitfalls) as an

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WestJet pilots to launch strike authorization vote as negotiations fizzle – Business News

Pilots to launch strike vote

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The union representing WestJet pilots says it will launch a strike authorization vote Monday as contract talks with management drag on.

Bernard Lewall, who heads the Air Line Pilots Association’s WestJet contingent, says

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Top Republican takes on the Biden administration over new energy rules for mobile homes [Video]

Mon. Tim Scott (R-SC) is asking the Biden administration to delay new energy standards for mobile homes set to go into effect at the end of next month.

In a new letter to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm given exclusively to Yahoo Finance, Scott said “this costly and misguided regulation” will squeeze low-income Americans who will be “unfairly asked to bear the costs imposed by climate alarmists.”

The new rules require more insulation and energy-efficient windows, changes that will increase the costs of building the homes. But they will also save Americans hundreds of dollars on their electricity bills while also

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NYPD Can ‘Probably Solve a Bunch of Cold Cases’ (Video)

Twice-impeached former president Donald Trump faces his arrangement on Tuesday, and when he arrives at the police station, he will reportedly have to provide a DNA sample. And once the NYPD did that, Roy Wood Jr. suspects a handful of other cases might get solved.

Wood kicked off his week of guest hosting “The Daily Show” on Monday, and naturally, he had some fun with the news of Trump’s indictment. Although he was criticized the fact that Trump is being arraigned “like he’s a normal person,” Wood couldn’t help but be delighted by the fact that he’ll still have to

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Bloomberg unveils finance-focused AI model Bloomberg GPT

SlateStone Wealth chief market strategist Kenny Polcari discusses when the Fed could cut rates and if it’s too early to invest in AI on ‘Varney & Co.’

Bloomberg, a leading financial data services provider, this week unveiled a new artificial intelligence (AI) model that aims to revolutionize the finance industry in the same way programs like OpenAI’s ChatGPT are set to radically transform written communications.

A research paper released by the company Thursday details the development of BloombergGPT, a new large language model (LLM) that has been trained on a massive amount of financial data to assist with a variety

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Budget could have included more help for small businesses: CFIB CEO

There was some good news for small businesses in the federal budget but the head of the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) said entrepreneurs are still facing big worries and the majority aren’t back to where they were before the pandemic.

In an interview with BNN Bloomberg on Tuesday, Dan Kelly, president and chief executive officer of CFIB, said the “government has to worry about how much firepower it has left, but so do small business owners.”

“One of the pieces in that mix is ​​the fact that they’re sitting on a mountain of debt that the business has

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Entrepreneur Uses ChatGPT to Earn 7 Figures With 6 Income Streams

  • Chase Dimond is an e-commerce specialist with six different income streams.
  • He works approximately 30 hours per week and is on track to earn seven figures this year.
  • Here’s how Dimond manages his income and time without burning it out.

In high school, Chase Dimond was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease which caused him to lose out on a whole year of school as he struggled to cope.

That experience motivated him to join a nonprofit aimed

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