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Canada passes 40 million population milestone amid immigration push
OTTAWA - Canada's population has reached more than 40 million, Statistics Canada said. The milestone comes amid a wave of new immigrants as part of Ottawa's promise to bring in 500,000 people a year b...
Jun 16, 2023
Arrows coach looks for positives out of frustrating, injury-plagued MLR season
TORONTO - The Toronto Arrows go into Saturday's regular-season finale against the visiting NOLA Gold with one win and a boatload of injuries. It's been that way most of the year for the lone Canadian ...
Jun 16, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked Pentagon Papers exposing Vietnam War secrets, dies at 92
NEW YORK (AP) - Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliati...
Jun 16, 2023
First practice cut short at Canadian GP due to local security camera issue
MONTREAL - The first practice session at the Canadian Grand Prix barely started before it was cut short due to local security camera issues around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. The FIA announced the ...
Jun 16, 2023
Manitoba RCMP, community leaders look to Saskatchewan after deadly crash
The mayor of Dauphin, Man., and a city councillor in Humboldt, Sask., are members of a club that no one wants to belong to: community leaders responding to unimaginable and unexpected tragedies. Fifte...
Jun 16, 2023
Surrey, B.C., to stay with RCMP over independent force, costing the city millions
SURREY, B.C. - The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says council has voted to revert its policing back to the RCMP, a move than will cost the city millions of dollars. Mayor Brenda Locke told reporters that she...
Jun 16, 2023
Surrey, B.C., to stay with RCMP over independent force, costing the city millions
SURREY, B.C. - The mayor of Surrey, B.C., says council has voted to revert its policing back to the RCMP, a move than will cost the city millions of dollars. Mayor Brenda Locke told reporters that she...
Jun 16, 2023
WolfPack men's soccer goes across the pond for latest recruit
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Rivers University (TRU) WolfPack men's soccer club went across the pond for their latest recruit.In a news release issued Friday (June 16), the WolfPack announced that Harry Ta...
Jun 16, 2023
PETERS: Hamer-Jackson's lawsuit the latest sad chapter in the saga at Kamloops city hall
THE STATE OF KAMLOOPS COUNCIL just went from fraught to sad - or maybe vice versa. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson is suing Councillor Katie Neustaeter for defamation. Hamer-Jackson says Neustaeter's stateme...
Jun 16, 2023
B.C.'s largest wildfire still threatens, as conditions elsewhere ease
VANCOUVER - Rain and cooler weather over much of British Columbia has prompted two fire centres in the southern and central Interior to roll back campfire bans. The Kamloops and Cariboo fire centres s...
Jun 16, 2023
