Sketchy Pizza Alert & Other Wild News 🍕🚨

The Deets

Aight, listen up, cuz there's a lot going on. First off, if you hit up Pepper Creek Pizza & Pasta in Sechelt between July 31 and Aug 14 OR Aug 23 and 29 and ate the salads, you might wanna get checked for Hepatitis A. Vancouver Coastal Health is throwing up the red flags. They're saying to get vaxxed ASAP if you think you were exposed, 'cause the shot can block the infection if you get it within two weeks. BTW, same health authority was on high alert about Sea Monkey Coffee food truck at the Sunday Cider bar where they spilled the same tea about the possibility of Hep A from food consumed from Aug 1 to 25. The health peeps low-key want people to be on the lookout for symptoms of hepatitis A, like feeling tired all the time, dropping weight for no reason, pain under your ribs, your muscles aching like crazy, or turning yellow like a Simpson. Even though the risk of catching anything is low, better safe than sorry!

Next up, drama alert! A whole RCMP officer might be in deep for a fatal crash that went down in West Kootenay in 2024. Apparently, this Mountie spotted a stolen truck, tried to pull it over, and the truck yeeted itself into a ditch. Sadly, the driver didn't make it. Now the IIO (Independent Investigations Office) is saying there's a good reason to believe the officer might've committed some driving offenses. There was also a girl in the truck who got nicked, chilled in the hospital for a bit, and then got released. Now it's up to the provincial prosecution to decide if they're gonna throw the book at the officer, weighing if they can actually win the case and if it's even worth it for the public good. Sheesh, heavy stuff.

And finally, the feds are feeling the pinch. They're in the hole for $3.3 billion from April to June. That's a bigger L than last year when they were only down $2.9 billion. On the bright side, they did make more bread than before, thanks to those import taxes on American stuff and more people paying their income taxes. But they also spent more on programs, so it kinda evens out. The charges they're paying on public debt are a little lower, but only because interest rates for those short-term treasury bills dropped. And they also lost less money on actuarial losses.