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From Shortfall To Crisis: Growing Demand For Long-Term Care Beds in B.C.

The Seniors Advocate is calling on the Province to address the increasing shortfall in long-term care bed supply. This systemic review reveals B.C. is not prepared to care for the most vulnerable seniors today or in the future due to the ongoing, increasing shortage of long-term care beds.

Over the past ten years, the waitlist for long-term care in B.C. has ballooned. Between 2016 and 2025, the number of people waiting to be admitted to long-term care rose from 2,381 to 7,212, an increase of 200%. The provincial average wait time has grown by 98% over the past eight years, from 146 days in 2018, the first year data was collected, to 290 days in 2025.

Municipal Pension Plan

2025 Annual General Meeting

Every year the Municipal Pension Board of Trustees hosts an annual general meeting to report on the health of your pension plan.

We invite you to join us for our upcoming annual meeting on 

October 16, 2025.

The online event will be from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

Agenda:

• Informational slide show (starting at 11:45 a.m.)
• Welcome from the board chair, Gary Yee
• Presentations about the plan from trustees and executive director
  • Financial highlights
  • Actuarial valuation results
  • Strategic plan progress
• Investment market update from BCI’s chief executive officer and chief investment officer, Gordon Fyfe
• Information and Q&A sessions where you can pick your preference to learn more about the plan

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Why Join the MPRA?

• An Association of retirees managed by retirees.
• Your voice regarding pension and benefit issues.
• Biannual MPRA newsletters (The Advisor).
• 33 Local districts within B.C. includes 1 Out of Province
• Get your first calendar year membership for free 
• An opportunity to share your knowledge and experience.
• A network of retirees and friends.
  

Join your district!

Meet your Executives. They are elected by your district members = you! You can become one too.

They are all hard-working volunteers who passionately:

• Keep you informed about your MPP pension and benefits. 
• Talk about our Rewards programs and how to benefit from them.
• Find out about our campaigns/advocacy related items. 
• Have a say on the direction of our Association. 

“I greatly appreciate all the work the MPRA does for us pensioners. Trusting that they have my best interests at heart, I am at ease and do not mind paying to be a member. "

Stan Ashbee, Kamloops

“The MPRA puts their membership first when it comes to advocating for us, keeping us informed, and providing us with answers when we have questions. “

Stacey Barnabe

“I really enjoy the MPRA meetings as they are well run and fun. I find the speakers enlightening, and the members welcoming and interesting. It is always worth the effort to go. (I drive down from Duncan to Esquimalt.) “

Dorothy Wellings

 Our latest issue June 2025

Campaigns we are involved in:

• Advocate to our Member of Parliament to create a National Pharmacare Program 
• Advocate for full coverage of Regular Eye Examinations 
• Advocate for standardization & coverage of Driver’s Medical Examination Report 
• Lobby Provincial and Federal Governments to find ways to reduce the cost and maintenance of hearing aids 
• Pursue a voice and seat at the Municipal Employees Pension Committee which would enhance participation at the Plan Partners Meetings.

MPRA Office Hours

We are here Monday to Thursday 8:30 am to 3:30 pm.

Please leave us a message at 250-768-1519 if you are calling after these hours and we will return your call the next business day.

Office Address
#4 - 2525 Dobbin Rd
West Kelowna, BC V4T 2G1

The office of the MPRA is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the syilx/Okanagan people.