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The Record, 25 January 2012
By Theresa McManus

New Westminster's members of Parliament are inviting Prime Minister Stephen Harper to tour Royal Columbian Hospital.

While premiers gathered in Victoria recently to discuss federal transfers for health care, New Westminster-Coquitlam NDP MP Fin Donnelly and Burnaby-New Westminster NDP MP Peter Julian challenged Harper and federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to tour Royal Columbian Hospital.

New Westminster News Leader, 16 January 2012
By Staff Writer

New Westminster MPs Peter Julian and Fin Donnelly have challenged Prime Minister Stephen Harper and federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq to tour Royal Columbian Hospital before making changes to the transfer of health funds to the provinces.

In December, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty proposed tying funding increases to economic growth including inflation starting in 2017. That rate is expected to be about four per cent compared to the current annual rate of six per cent.

Rob Williams and his colleagues weren't even looking for sharks

Vancouver Sun, 23 October 2010
By Larry Pynn

The University of B.C. researcher was aboard a 20-metre research sailboat off the B.C. coast for three summers, surveying for marine mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises.

But it was the appearance of shark fins -- one, then another, and another -- slicing through the cold blue water that surprised the research team. Most were salmon sharks, but there were also some blue sharks ranging in length to almost four metres.

New Westminster News Leader, 18 November 2011
By Staff Writer

New Westminster-Coquitlam and Port Moody NDP MP Fin Donnelly is giving it another shot in his bid to get the federal government to strengthen its medical employment insurance benefits for those suffering from serious illnesses such as cancer.

On Tuesday, Donnelly reintroduced a private members bill that would extend EI benefits from 15 to 52 weeks.

Georgia Straight, 15 November 2011
By Stephen Thomson

New Democrat MP Fin Donnelly is renewing his effort to have medical Employment Insurance benefits extended for those suffering from serious illnesses like cancer.

Donnelly reintroduced a private member’s bill in the House of Commons today (November 15) that would increase the benefit period to 52 weeks from 15.

Richmond Review, 8 November 2011
By Martin van den Hemel

Fisheries and Oceans critic Fin Donnelly will soon be carrying the sentiments of Richmond residents opposed to plans for a jet fuel pipeline, and delivering them to Ottawa.

On Tuesday morning, the MP for New Westminster-Coquitlam-Port Moody received a 6,000-signature petition collected by members of V.A.P.O.R., Vancouver Airport Pipeline Opposition for Richmond.

The Province, 3 November 2011
By Sean Sullivan, Postmedia News

A lethal virus that could pose a new threat to British Columbia's prized Pacific salmon has now been detected in four wild species, prompting fears about its effect on the multi-billion-dollar fishery.

On Wednesday, biologist and salmon advocate Alexandra Morton learned an infectious salmon amenia (ISA) lab at the Atlantic Veterinary College in P.E.I. found evidence of the virus in three of 10 dead fish — a Chinook, coho and chum — she pulled from the Harrison River on Oct. 12.

New Westminster NewsLeader, 1 November 2011

The Daily News, 24 October 2011
By Walter Cordery

It wasn't until Alaskan and Washington state politicians raised the alarm about a potentially devastating salmon virus that has been detected in wild West Coast salmon stocks that Ottawa started to investigate the findings of a study by Simon Fraser University fisheries statistician Rick Routledge.

Initially, the Harper government described the study as "inconclusive."

Postmedia News, 21 October 2011
By Peter O'Neil

The Harper government, which described as "inconclusive" tests showing British Columbia wild sockeye salmon have been infected with a potentially devastating virus, isn't taking the matter as seriously as top politicians in the U.S., the House of Commons was told Thursday.

The New Democratic Party drew attention to a statement issued earlier in the day by three American senators who have made a bipartisan appeal to U.S. government officials to probe the possible spread of infectious salmon anemia.