100 Mile House

The Peace Country and the Northwest are mostly in the single digits with Terrace around 11%.

Kamloops, Williams Lake and 100 Mile House sit in the 10 to 13% range.

Then you reach the hotspots.

In the Okanagan and Shuswap, Kelowna and Penticton, They're all around one home in five.

Daria Zargar has that story tonight.

Residents of a small town outside of 100 Mile House in BC's Cariboo region are dealing with a post office problem.

We've had missing packages and packages that are showing up late or, like, not at all.

Forest Groves Canada Post shut after their postmaster retired at the end of January, leaving the community without a local spot to pick up their mail.

Now residents have to drive south to 100 Mile House, which is about a 40-minute round trip.

Kossman says between managing her small business and taking care of her mother, the trek is becoming too much.

Oh, I have to figure out my day on everything that I'm doing here with my business and my household on how many times a week I can afford, with gas prices particularly, to drive into town to not only pick up the supplies, but to mail out my customers' orders on top of it.

Frankly, I, I...

After I left Salmon Arm, I came to the Cariboo because of work and spent, uh, pretty much mo- most of, uh, my life since has been there, although I did have stops in 100 Mile House, which is in the Cariboo, just south of Williams Lake, where I live now.

Uh, I've spent a fair amount of time in, uh, say a couple of years in Prince George.

And I was in the newspaper business during that time, so there was a tendency to move around a little bit.

So, okay.

Start with the 100 Mile House Wranglers.

Honestly, maybe arguably the team that got screwed the most by the split.

Probably the team with the most reason to want to go independent.

So it's so hard to tell.

Do you have much else to say about 100 Mile? No.

Um, I just kind of, one of my big, big issues, like I think probably the only real objection I have to like, you know, these teams going independent, you know, the risk of I think you guys have said this, the risk of them no longer supporting the BC players or whatever, but they've got four guys from 100 Mile House alone.

I'm sure they've got five Russians, but they've got a bunch of local players and a decent amount of BC players.

What's happening with the conservatives?

So the Lauren, our leader, was in 100 Mile House today talking about health care.

So affordability, the economy, very big issues for British Columbia.

But in my time in public affairs, health care is always something that's at the top of the list.

So maintaining that public health care system.

I want to ask you about Lorne Dirksen and where he's been in this campaign, because we've seen him in Surrey.

We've seen him a little bit in Metro Vancouver, but it seems to me like he's kind of all over smaller communities, like 100 Mile House, or he's been in his home riding, or he's been in ridings making announcements that we typically wouldn't see in a very short snap election.

So the Warren is traveling the province.

It's a good, it's a good listen if you failed to catch Saturday's show.

If you're looking for what's on the campaign trail today, the BC Conservative's leader, Loren Dirksen, in 100 Mile House for an announcement at 11:00 with a policy announcement billed from the Conservatives.

The BC Greens and their leader, plus the candidate for Saanich North and the Islands, Emily Loewen, will be in Fernwood to make an announcement about the ultra-wealthy paying their fair share, ironically, in the Ferwood...

Fernwood neighborhood house where the BC NDP and David Eby had a rally on Sunday evening.

Moving on, the flagship for Fox Tungsten is the, uh, namesake and 100% owned Fox Tungsten projects located in the South Cariboo region of central British Columbia.

It's roughly 70 kilometers northeast of 100 Mile House.

This is a scheelite deposit, so we're talking about a calc-silicate scarring tungsten system with mineralization occurring in stacked, relatively flat line calc-silicate horizons that can reach as high as 20 meters thick, though of course they're, uh, they're variable in, uh, in thickness.

The most recent resource there w- was published in 2018 contained 582,000 tons grading .8% WO3 in the indicated category and 565,000 tons grading 1.2% WO3 in, uh, inferred, and that's across multiple zones, and we'll talk about all of it, but it's RC, BN, and the BK zones.