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Curry, Harris help 76ers stay alive, hold off Hawks 104-99
ATLANTA - Seth Curry hit six 3-pointes and scored 24 points and the top-seeded Philadelphia 76ers avoided elimination in the Eastern Conference semifinal series by beating the Atlanta Hawks 104-99 in ...
Jun 18, 2021
B.C. premier gets second AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as 109 new cases reported
VICTORIA - British Columbia's premier says he's received a second dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. John Horgan shared a photo of himself to social media on Friday afternoon holding a c...
Jun 18, 2021
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Friday, June 18, 2021
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:30 p.m. ET on Friday, June 18, 2021. Some provinces and territories do not report daily case numbers. There are 1,407,269 confirmed cas...
Jun 18, 2021
Local swimmer reaching for Tokyo Olympic berth
NANAIMO - Tayden De Pol won't see the finish line coming as he looks to earn a trip to Tokyo in July.The Nanaimo swimmer, a former member of the Riptides swim team and current UBC Thunderbird, will ta...
Jun 18, 2021
Canadian government grants border exemption for Olympic athlete bubbles
OTTAWA - The federal government has approved a travel exemption for Canada's Olympic hopefuls that will allow them to train on home soil without undergoing a 14-day quarantine after returning to the c...
Jun 18, 2021
Kamloops family impacted by ALS diagnosis keeping humour and positivity at the forefront
KAMLOOPS - Last spring, Ross Duncan was playing a round of golf when he noticed his right arm was feeling off. Over the summer the weakness in his right arm grew, and after testing in the fall with ne...
Jun 18, 2021
Pair charged in murder of two brothers in Naramata, B.C.
NARAMATA, B.C. - RCMP say two men have been charged in the double murder of two brothers in British Columbia's Okanagan region. The bodies of Erick and Carlos Fryer were found in a remote location nea...
Jun 18, 2021
Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken privacy law, intelligence watchdog says
OTTAWA - The national intelligence watchdog says Canada's cyberspy agency may have broken the law in disclosing personal information about Canadians. The Ottawa-based Communications Security Establish...
Jun 18, 2021
Two men charged in Naramata homicides
NARAMATA, B.C. - RCMP have arrested one man, and have a warrant out for a second person, in the double murder of Kamloops brothers Carlos and Erick Fryer whose bodies were discovered in Naramata in Ma...
Jun 18, 2021
PHAC head maintains he's bound by law not to release docs on fired scientists
OTTAWA - The head of the Public Health Agency of Canada is showing no sign he's willing to release unredacted documents about the firing of two scientists at the country's highest security laboratory ...
Jun 18, 2021
