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Local unemployment rate jumped more than a point in January
Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate for the economic region that includes Vernon and the Okanagan rose by 1.3 per cent in January .The unadjusted unemployment rate for Thompson-Okanagan was r...
Feb 04, 2022
GOP censures Cheney, Kinzinger, moves to pull out of debates
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Republican Party officials on Friday voted to punish GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their work on the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection and advan...
Feb 04, 2022
'With a heavy heart,' N.B. judge temporarily suspends unvaccinated father's custody
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has temporarily suspended an unvaccinated father's in-person parenting time with his three children and ruled that their mother can have the children vaccinated des...
Feb 04, 2022
Feds to press ahead with anti-hate bill, including online speech: minister
OTTAWA - Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government is preparing to press ahead with a law to combat racial and religious hatred, including online hate. In an interview, the minister condemne...
Feb 04, 2022
Locked out MLB players reject offer of federal mediation
NEW YORK (AP) - Locked out players rejected Major League Baseball's request for a federal mediator to enter stalled labor negotiations, a move that pretty much eliminated any chance for an on-time sta...
Feb 04, 2022
Quebec City ready for demonstration against COVID-19 health orders, premier says
Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he's confident a trucker protest planned in Quebec City this weekend against COVID-19 public health orders won't be a repeat of what's happening in Ottawa. Legault ...
Feb 04, 2022
Quebec middleweight Marc-Andre Barriault believes he's found recipe for UFC success
Quebec middleweight Marc-Andre (Powerbar) Barriault is a long way from his hometown of Gatineau, Que., and former training base of Quebec City these days. The 31-year-old mixed martial artist has call...
Feb 04, 2022
Ottawa police deploy 'surge' in bid to control, end 'increasingly volatile' protest
Ottawa police are deploying a "surge" of about 150 extra police officers to central areas of the city paralyzed by the protest against COVID-19 mandates that has been going on for days. Police Chief P...
Feb 04, 2022
Quebec cuts funding to English college in favour of French schools ahead of election
MONTREAL - Squeezed for space, Montreal's Dawson College has for years been planning an expansion of its medical technology department that would include a clinic to serve the community and train its ...
Feb 04, 2022
Police say one male dead after suspected targeted shooting in North Delta, B.C.
DELTA, B.C. - A person has been killed in a shooting in Delta, B.C. A statement from Delta Police says officers responded to a call of shots fired just after 2 a.m. at a home on the northeast side of ...
Feb 04, 2022
