Kamloops and Area

LANSDOWNE PROJECT
Significant impact to downtown commuters expected during Lansdowne project
KAMLOOPS -- Downtown commuters can expect substantial slowdown beginning at the end of this month. Major work along the Lansdowne Street corridor will begin on April 28 as part of the City Centre Sanitary Upgrades Project to install a trunk sewer main from 1st Avenue to 7th Avenue. A city press release notes the projec...
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Travelling blacksmith visits Kamloops, fashions fresh interest in an ancient skill
KAMLOOPS - The trade of fashioning metal has been around for thousands of years, and while it's not as popular as it once was, one travelling blacksmith is forging new interest. "It is an archaic skill or trade, but there are still blacksmiths out there who are making beautiful stuff like the ornamental gates, rai...
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GOOD UNDERSTANDING
Last call for new shoes before CFJC TV Boogie the Bridge
KAMLOOPS - In just over a week's time, the Overlanders Bridge will be one of the busiest spots in the city, as thousands of red-clad runners and walkers will file over it as part of the 27th Annual CFJC TV Boogie the Bridge."Super excited," Boogie the Bridge founder Jo Berry tells CFJC Today. "Boogie pre...
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Kamloops Volunteer Appreciation Barbecue recognizes volunteers for vital work
KAMLOOPS - Volunteers from all over the city came out for burgers, hot dogs and to rub elbows with the city's council and mayor during the 12th Annual Kamloops Volunteer Appreciation Barbeque. Down at Sandman Centre, the Kamloops Brock Central Lions Club was busy grilling up burgers and hot dogs for the group, despite ...
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British Columbia

First Nation solar farm in B.C. expected to save 1.1 million litres of diesel a year
ANAHIM LAKE, B.C. - A First Nation in central British Columbia will build what the federal government says will likely be the largest off-grid solar project in Canada. Nearly $16 million in federal and provincial funding is going toward the solar farm in Anahim Lake, home to the Ulkatcho First Nation, where power is cu...
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Lululemon cutting over 100 jobs in Washington distribution centre closure
VANCOUVER - Lululemon Athletica Inc. says it is cutting more than 100 jobs as it plans to close a distribution centre in Washington state. It says some employees at the Sumner, Wash. centre will be retrained and relocated to other facilities, but that "just over" 100 positions with be eliminated because of th...
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Polish leader tells B.C. audience NATO allies need to spend more on defence
VANCOUVER - Poland's president says members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, including Canada, must raise defence spending to three per cent of GDP to deter Russia's war in Ukraine from spreading. Andrzej Duda made the comments at a speech in Vancouver on Friday, a day ahead of his meeting with Prime Ministe...
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Coroner's inquest to probe death of B.C. man shot dozens of times by police in 2018
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The British Columbia Coroners Service says it will hold an inquest into the death of a man who died in a hail of police gunfire after starting a shootout with RCMP officers in Kamloops. The service says the inquest will begin on May 6 at the Kamloops law courts to determine the facts related to the de...
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Province calls Gate Gourmet, striking airline catering workers back to bargaining
The union representing striking airline catering workers says Ontario mediators have called them back to the table for talks with employer Gate Gourmet. About 800 food service staff at Toronto's Pearson airport went on strike Tuesday, leaving thousands of passengers without meals this week. The workers cook, package an...
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Bigger boats, more nets, people arrive in Zeballos, B.C., for new orca rescue attempt
ZEBALLOS, B.C. - A large seine fishing vessel capable of casting a net strong enough to hold a nearly 700-kilogram killer whale calf has arrived in Zeballos, B.C., to participate in the latest attempt to rescue the young orca stranded in a remote tidal lagoon. The flat-bottom aluminum vessel has a built-in crane-like d...
Apr 19, 2024
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Canada

CP NewsAlert: Wrongfully convicted N.B man dies four months after exoneration
FREDERICTON - A wrongfully convicted New Brunswick man who spent 40 years trying to clear his name in a murder case before being declared innocent in January has died. Innocence Canada, the organization that led the legal fight to exonerate Walter Gillespie and his friend Robert Mailman of their 1984 murder convictions...
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What's a Barnacle? It's yellow, sticks and screams if you try to pry it off your car
Barnacles have appeared on vehicles in Saskatchewan's capital, but they're not sticky little water-dwelling crustaceans. The bright yellow devices, used to make sure parking scofflaws pay their tickets, could soon be making their way to other parts of the country. "You will see more and more Barnacles," Coli...
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Indigenous healing lodges face chronic underfunding across Canada, critics say
SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. - Every morning, Indigenous men at the Waseskun Healing Centre north of Montreal gather for a healing circle, where they smudge, share stories and sometimes gain spiritual guidance from elders. The centre is the equivalent of a minimum-security prison but here, the men are called resident...
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Liberal government turning to influencers to get its message to younger Canadians
OTTAWA - Dennis Mathu and Stephanie Gordon first started posting financial-advice videos on YouTube three years ago - a side hustle that helped to scratch a creative itch. They never imagined it would lead them down some of the most powerful political corridors in Canada. Mathu and Gordon - Steph & Den, as they'r...
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U.S. FAA to probe baseball coach in cockpit during a flight from Denver to Toronto
LOS ANGELES - Authorities in the United States are investigating after a video surfaced on social media of a hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies sitting in the cockpit of an aircraft "at cruise altitude," while bound for Toronto. A statement from the Federal Aviation Administration says an investigation i...
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Police to search Saskatoon landfill for woman missing since 2020
SASKATOON - Police are planning to search a Saskatoon landfill for a woman who has been missing for almost four years. Mackenzie Lee Trottier was last seen in December 2020. Police say a substantial amount of data was collected late last year that identifies a specific area of the landfill that may contain evidence in...
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World

Man who set himself on fire outside Trump trial dies of injuries, police say
NEW YORK (AP) - A man who doused himself in an accelerant and set himself on fire outside the courthouse where former President Donald Trump is on trial is on trial has died, police said. The New York City Police Department said the man was declared dead by staff at an area hospital. The man was in Collect Pond Park ar...
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The Latest | A second alternate has been picked for Trump's hush money trial, 4 more still needed
NEW YORK (AP) - Lawyers in former President Donald Trump 's hush money case shifted their attention Friday to picking alternates as jury selection resumed for a fourth day. The proceedings began again with the questionnaire phase of jury selection and 22 possible jurors were brought in. A second alternate was picked ju...
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Ukraine, Israel aid back on track as House pushes toward weekend votes
WASHINGTON (AP) - With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday's vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in t...
Apr 19, 2024
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Jury selection could be nearing a close in Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York
NEW YORK (AP) - A third panel of potential jurors will be questioned Friday in Donald Trump's hush money case, drawing jury selection a step closer to completion in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president. After a jury of 12 New Yorkers was seated Thursday, lawyers are now expected to turn their attention t...
Apr 19, 2024
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Israel gave US last-minute warning about drone attack on Iran, Italian foreign minister says at G7
CAPRI, Italy (AP) - The United States told the Group of Seven foreign ministers on Friday that it received "last minute" information from Israel about a drone action in Iran, Italy's foreign minister said. Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, who chaired the meeting of ministers of industrialized countrie...
Apr 19, 2024
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2 suspects detained in Poland after last month's attack on a Navalny ally in Lithuania
VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - Two people have been detained in Poland on suspicion of attacking Russian opposition activist Leonid Volkov, an ally of the late activist Alexei Navalny, the Lithuanian president announced on Friday. Volkov was attacked in March outside his home in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, where he liv...
Apr 19, 2024
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