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VIDEO: Air ambulance joins emergency vehicle parade past Royal Inland Hospital
KAMLOOPS - Beginning this week, first responders have paraded past Royal Inland Hospital in their vehicles every night, lights and sirens blaring.The nightly ritual is a way to thank workers at the ho...
Apr 03, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Ambulance Paramedics of BC
Concerns raised about feds dealings on First Nations elections amid COVID-19
OTTAWA - The chief of an Ontario First Nation says her community is caught up in bureaucratic and "paternalistic" voting rules that could leave it with a governance gap in the midd...
Apr 03, 2020
Feds urge med students, retirees to volunteer in the fight against COVID-19
OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking volunteers with medical experience to provide backup support in the fight against COVID-19. Health Canada is creating a database of specialized voluntee...
Apr 03, 2020
Canada Infrastructure Bank chief executive Pierre Lavallee steps down
OTTAWA - The federal government says Pierre Lavallee is stepping down as chief executive of the Canada Infrastructure Bank, effective immediately. It says the board has asked Annie Ropar, chief financ...
Apr 03, 2020
At Madrid field hospital, staff seeks to provide human touch
MADRID - There's a bookshelf filled with donated novels. Hotel toiletries rest on cardboard boxes turned into bedside tables. Meals are served with personalized notes from the staff. And an army of vo...
Apr 03, 2020
KFR responds to gas leak at Sahali Mall
KAMLOOPS - Emergency crews were called to a gas leak at Sahali Mall this morning (Apr. 3). According to Kamloops Fire Rescue Capt. Wade Lindoff, a contractor was working inside the old Safeway when a ...
Apr 03, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds
Conservative leadership campaigns continue, despite request from party
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidates remain on the campaign trail despite a request from the party to put most of their efforts on pause during the COVID-19 crisis. A recording of a campaign co...
Apr 03, 2020
PETERS: Rendering scrutiny on our public health officer is a tricky game to play
OUR PROVINCE'S CHIEF HEALTH OFFICER, Dr. Bonnie Henry, is open to scrutiny and critique just like any public official.You wouldn't think that's the case by all the fawning praise she has received for ...
Apr 03, 2020 Image Credit: Province of B.C.
Projections show between 3,000 and 15,000 could die from COVID-19 in Ontario
TORONTO - The steps the Ontario government has taken so far to limit the spread of COVID-19 have likely saved tens of thousands of lives, public health officials said Friday, but even with further act...
Apr 03, 2020
Feds to offer full-time work to all military reservists as part of COVID-19 response
OTTAWA - The federal government is planning to offer full-time employment to all reservists in the Canadian Armed Forces until the end of the summer. The move is intended to make sure the military has...
Apr 03, 2020
