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Jets sniper Patrik Laine working to get back up to speed after long layoff
Patrik Laine said back in May there was a good chance he'd look "terrible" if the NHL resumed its season this summer. Like most players locked down during the COVID-19 pandemic, th...
Jul 15, 2020
RCMP say someone left needle-filled lemons in Port Coquitlam, B.C., park
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - Mounties say they've had reports of two lemons full of sewing needles found tied to bushes along a trail in Port Coquitlam, B.C. The first lemon was found June 22 tied with twin...
Jul 15, 2020
Ex-CFL player gets 3 months for college admissions scam in United States
A former Canadian Football League player was sentenced Wednesday to three months in prison for hiring someone take the SATs in place of his two sons. David Sidoo, who played professional football for ...
Jul 15, 2020
DVA launches #OpenWithCare
The Downtown Vernon Association has launched an Open With Care campaign to let shoppers know its members have created a safe enviroment during the COVID-19 pandemic.The DVA says members are:adhering t...
Jul 15, 2020
Gasol: It's pretty simple - it's being more responsible as human beings"
Marc Gasol spent part of the summer of 2018 on a rescue ship in the Mediterranean Sea, helping pluck terrified people from the water, migrants fleeing Libya for the shores of Europe. Gasol was vo...
Jul 15, 2020
Canada's Sloan making most of time off to improve on slow start to PGA season
Although it's been a strange PGA Tour season with rescheduled events after a three-month break due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Roger Sloan has been grateful for the opportunities it's presented. Sloan, ...
Jul 15, 2020
Pandemic series exhibition comes to Vernon
The Caetani Cultural Centre is hosting a one-day event featuring Melissa Dinwoodie's Pandemic Series Exhibition.The series is comprised of 60 powerful musings which are daily reflections on the COVID-...
Jul 15, 2020
Huawei hopeful it can provide 5G to Canada despite, Trump, Five Eyes pressure
OTTAWA - Huawei Canada says it is collateral damage in the Trump administration's trade war with China and remains hopeful that it might still be able to sell next-generation internet equipment to Can...
Jul 15, 2020
Feds urged to do own review of proposed Alberta coal mine expansion
OTTAWA - A lawyer at the centre of a lobbying effort to stop a coal mine from expanding in Alberta says the federal government's refusal to do its own environmental review of the project is ...
Jul 15, 2020
Foord receives Okanagan College's highest honour
Robert Foord, the president of Vernon-based Kal Tire, has been named an Honorary Fellow of Okanagan College, the post secondary institution's highest honour.The college says that under his guidance, K...
Jul 15, 2020

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