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Hospice House holds garage sale fundraiser
As people take part in spring cleaning around their homes, the North Okanagan Hospice Society (NOHS) is providing a way to get rid of all the stuff that's built-up over the last year, while at the sam...
Apr 11, 2022

Lions preparing for training camp in Kamloops; Fan Fest returns
In exactly a month, the B.C. Lions will return to Hillside Stadium in Kamloops to prepare for another CFL season. For a 12th year in a row, the Leos are back in Kamloops for training camp, which begin...
Apr 11, 2022

B.C. mayors dealing with flooding and wildfire damage call on feds to deliver funds
VANCOUVER - British Columbia mayors whose communities were devastated by last year's flooding and wildfires want the federal government to deliver billions of dollars in promised funding. Abbotsford M...
Apr 11, 2022

People injured in fire at residential building in downtown Vancouver: chief
VANCOUVER - Two people were taken to hospital and officials were trying to account for everyone who lived in a building that caught fire Monday in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood, the fire chief sai...
Apr 11, 2022

People injured in fire at residential building in downtown Vancouver: chief
VANCOUVER - Two people were taken to hospital and officials were trying to account for everyone who lived in a building that caught fire Monday in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood, the fire chief sai...
Apr 11, 2022

B.C. mayors dealing with flooding and wildfire damage call on feds to deliver funds
VANCOUVER - British Columbia mayors whose communities were devastated by last year's flooding and wildfires want the federal government to deliver billions of dollars in promised funding. Abbotsford M...
Apr 11, 2022

Association of friendship centres to steer $5M fund for Indigenous safety planning
VANCOUVER - The B.C. government's decision to put a fund for Indigenous safety planning in the hands of an Indigenous-led organization was hailed as a step toward reconciliation for the province. Lesl...
Apr 11, 2022

Food industry adjusting to large outbreak of avian flu in Canada, around the world
OTTAWA - Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada says the food industry is making adjustments to maintain supplies of poultry and eggs in the face of a large outbreak of avian flu in Canada and around the wo...
Apr 11, 2022

Ex-officer convicted of storming Capitol to disrupt Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal jury on Monday convicted a former Virginia police officer of storming the U.S. Capitol with another off-duty officer to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Bide...
Apr 11, 2022

2012 Quebec election-night shooting 'unpredictable,' police witnesses testify
MONTREAL - The provincial police officer charged with the personal security of then-premier-designate Pauline Marois during Quebec's 2012 fatal election shooting testified on Monday that he is satisfi...
Apr 11, 2022

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