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New COVID-19 measures and the rush on wills; In The News for April 13
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of April 13. What we are watching in Canada ... F...
Apr 13, 2020
ROTHENBURGER – Chamber takes simplistic approach to getting people back to work
KAMLOOPS - A PROPOSAL BY THE KAMLOOPS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE that the City scrap any thoughts of cutting back on major infrastructure projects would seem to go against all measures of common sense.The ch...
Apr 13, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
Series of fires along CN tracks
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Fire and Rescue crews worked with CN rail to douse a number of small grass fires along the tracks in Rayleigh overnight. Fire Captain Sheldon Guertin says crews were grinding track...
Apr 13, 2020 Image Credit: CFJC Today
40th anniversary of Marathon of Hope can inspire Canadians during COVID battle
VANCOUVER - Forty years after Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope, his brother says the message he shared is particularly poignant as Canadians deal with the COVID-19 pandemic. The Port Coquitlam, B....
Apr 12, 2020
Canada asks Iran to delay download of Flight 752 black boxes due to COVID-19
OTTAWA - Canadian authorities are blaming travel restrictions related to COVID-19 for a request that Iran hold off on downloading the flight recorders from a commercial jetliner shot down in January. ...
Apr 12, 2020
Online service held for Kennedy family members who drowned
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - A family member said thousands of people attended a virtual memorial service over the weekend for Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her son, Gideon, extended members of the powerful K...
Apr 12, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 12:10 p.m. Nova Scotia is reporting 17 new cases of COVID-19 for a total of 445 confirmed cases. Health officials say the...
Apr 12, 2020
The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the COVID-19 global pandemic (all times Eastern): 12:10 p.m. Nova Scotia is reporting 17 new cases of COVID-19 for a total of 445 confirmed cases. Health officials say the...
Apr 12, 2020
Kamloops volunteers cooking up pair of Easter meals for city's less fortunate
KAMLOOPS - A team of local volunteers will be putting on Easter meals today and tomorrow for the less fortunate community in Kamloops. The Kamloops COVID Meal Train project, started through Facebook, ...
Apr 12, 2020 File photo (Image Credit: Paul Cowan | Dreamstime.com)
COVID-19 a 'failure of early warning' for Canada, intelligence expert says
OTTAWA - It was last on a list of eight threat scenarios, but the danger of a global pandemic made the cut when the Liberal government issued a national security policy in 2004. With the then-recent S...
Apr 12, 2020
