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French decision to halt sports until September adds to rugby league's uncertainty
The challenge of restarting England's rugby league season grew even more complicated Tuesday with news that the French government has banned all major sporting events until September. Catalan Dragons ...
Apr 28, 2020
Flood warnings downgraded in B.C. as conditions ease but heavy snowpacks remain
VANCOUVER - Flood warnings have been reduced across much of British Columbia's central Interior as cooler weather eases the rate of snowmelt. The River Forecast Centre has downgraded warnings to ...
Apr 28, 2020
Study on early humans sheds new light on old stories about animals and alcohol
CALGARY - Research is shedding new light on old stories about the relationship between animals and alcohol. University of Calgary anthropologist Mareike Janiak started by asking how ea...
Apr 28, 2020
MAP: Thefts of bicycles and from motor vehicles — Week of April 20, 2020
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are including a new addition to the detachment's regular release of theft-from-motor-vehicle statistics and mapping - accompanying maps of bicycle thefts.Spokesperson Cpl. Jod...
Apr 28, 2020 Thefts from motor vehicles in Kamloops (Image Credit: Kamloops RCMP)
SD73 board able to move money around to enhance support for online learning
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District Board of Education says it has been able to take some of the savings that have accrued during the COVID-19 pandemic and use them to enhance the learnin...
Apr 28, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Gloomy summer looms as pandemic cancels US festivals, trips
HARTFORD, Conn. - Thelma Uranga is sprucing up her back deck in Chicago, hoping to host some small gatherings to take the place of the summer's usual neighbourhood festivals built on music, food and t...
Apr 28, 2020
Spread of COVID-19 slows down, but projections show more deaths expected: Tam
OTTAWA - New models released by the federal government show a pandemic paradox is playing out in Canada as more people die from COVID-19, even as the increase in new cases slows down. Canada's ch...
Apr 28, 2020
Kenney offers support to Fort McMurray as floods chase people from downtown
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Officials in Fort McMurray say a 25-kilometre ice jam that caused major flooding and forced about 12,000 people from their homes in the city's downtown is shrinking. B...
Apr 28, 2020
Hlinka Gretzky Cup men's hockey tournament cancelled because of COVID-19
CALGARY - The Hlinka Gretzky Cup, a tournament featuring the world's top under-18 male hockey players, has been cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The eight-country tournament was schedu...
Apr 28, 2020
Storybooks, radio connect kids isolated in far-flung Alaska
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - All it takes is a few words from a storybook to connect kids over the crackle of an AM radio station. It's not 1950s entertainment, but a nostalgic way children in even the most re...
Apr 28, 2020
