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Canada closes borders to most foreigners to fight spread of COVID-19
OTTAWA - Canada is closing its borders to most foreign nationals except Americans and is barring anyone, including Canadian citizens, with symptoms of the novel coronavirus from boarding fli...
Mar 16, 2020
COVID-19 has Canadian Blood Services worried about critical shortage
OTTAWA - Canadian Blood Services is seeking to reassure donors that it's safe to give blood, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Isra Levy of Canadian Blood Services says there has been a jum...
Mar 16, 2020
7 Bay Area counties in California order shelter-in-place
LOS ANGELES - Officials in six San Francisco Bay Area counties issued a shelter-in-place mandate on Monday affecting nearly 7 million people, including the city of San Francisco itself. The order says...
Mar 16, 2020
Noted musical trailblazer Doriot Anthony Dwyer dies at 98
BOSTON - A longtime Boston Symphony Orchestra flutist and musical trailblazer has died, the orchestra said Monday. Doriot Anthony Dwyer was 98. Dwyer, the second woman ever to win a principal chair in...
Mar 16, 2020
City of Kamloops activates Emergency Operations Centre in response to COVID-19
KAMLOOPS - The City of Kamloops has announced it is activating its Emergency Operations Centre in response to COVID-19.According to the city's website, the move came after Provincial Health Officer Dr...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Blazers office closed until further notice.
KAMLOOPS --- The Kamloops Blazers Hockey Club has announced the business office and store has been closed until further notice. The temporary closure is in light of continued developments on a global ...
Mar 16, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers
Vernon students home from European trip, in self-isolation
VERNON, B.C. - A group of students and adults from the Vernon school district who travelled overseas last week, prior to international travel restrictions, are back home and self-isolating.Superintend...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: Associated Press / Rafael Yaghobzadeh
Three more COVID-19 related deaths in B.C.; 30 more cases confirmed
VICTORIA - British Columbia has recorded three more deaths from COVID-19, all of them stemming from a long-term care home in North Vancouver where the first death in Canada was reported. Provincial he...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: Global News
Canada to close border to non-citizens apart from US residents
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is closing its borders to most people who are not citizens or permanent residents to slow the spread of COVID-19. The federal government is mandating...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC News
RCMP seek missing Salmon Arm man
SALMON ARM, B.C. - The Vernon-North Okanagan RCMP are requesting the public's assistance in locating a missing Salmon Arm resident.Grayam Parent was last seen March 10 in Vernon.Police say since Paren...
Mar 16, 2020 Image Credit: RCMP Handout
