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New round of COVID-19 relief grants available to community groups
Non-profit groups in the Columbia Shuswap are getting another opportunity to get some help in recoverign from the pandemic.The Columbia Shuswap Regional District will provide $50,000 of its COVID-19 S...
Mar 24, 2022
Black Academy's Legacy Awards set for fall, to air on CBC
TORONTO - The Black Academy's inaugural Legacy Awards has found a venue and an air date. The Canadian award show dedicated to Black talent will be held at the Toronto live event space History and will...
Mar 24, 2022
Zelenskyy pleads for aid as Biden, allies begin summits
BRUSSELS (AP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for "military assistance without limitations" as he addressed an emergency NATO summit on Thursday, the first of three urgent meetings U....
Mar 24, 2022
Judge scolds ex-NBA star Ray Allen for skipping jury duty
MIAMI (AP) - Basketball Hall of Famer Ray Allen got scolded by a federal judge and ordered to donate $1,000 to charity for failing to show up at a trial after being selected as a juror. U.S. District ...
Mar 24, 2022
Vipers end regular season with lopsided win over Smoke Eaters
The Vernon Vipers tuned up for the BCHL playoffs by routing the Trail Smoke Eaters 10-3 in the Vipers final regular season game on Wednesday night.Shorthanded goals 17 seconds apart in the first perio...
Mar 24, 2022
4 dead, 1 injured, after apparent fall from Swiss building
GENEVA (AP) - Four people were found dead at the foot of a seven-story residential building in the lakeside Swiss city of Montreux, police said Thursday, with a fifth person hospitalized in serious co...
Mar 24, 2022
Trudeau meets with NATO, reconciling faith with identity: In The News for March 24
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 24 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Mar 24, 2022
Backbench Tory MP running for leadership says he knows his political reality
OTTAWA - A backbench member of Parliament who entered the Conservative leadership race on a promise to trigger an inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic says he's aware of the "political realities" he fac...
Mar 24, 2022
'Reconciliation was possible:' Indigenous priest reconciles faith with identity
Cristino Bouvette's mind often goes to his grandmother when he thinks about reconciliation: her strength, her empathy and her ability to forgive. He is a Roman Catholic priest and his kokum, Amelia Ma...
Mar 24, 2022
North Korea fires suspected missile into sea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired at least one suspected ballistic missile toward the sea Thursday, its neighbors' militaries said, apparently extending its barrage of weapons tests that may...
Mar 23, 2022
