The News Show Ep. 10: No more settlement services + train crash report

The Settlement Services program at the college here in Revelstoke helped new immigrants get oriented in town. It connected them with services, provided language classes, and helped the new community members integrate. It’s been around for the last 20 years, and the program ended on March 31. The program had been funded by the federal department of Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada since 2005. We hear from Mary Kline, with Okanagan College Revelstoke, about the program and what it means that it’s no longer being funded.

I also talk about the train crash that happened near Revelstoke on Feb. 16, 2024. Here’s a link to an article I wrote about it last week. And here’s the investigative report from the Transportation Safety Board of Canada.

Stay tuned to The News Show next week as I’ll play an interview from each of our federal candidates. Advance polls in the federal election open on April 18, and election day is April 28.

meagan@stokefm.com