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Blondin makes two trips to the podium as Canada earns three medals at Four Continents
HACHINOHE - Ivanie Blondin helped Canada to a team sprint gold medal before picking up an individual bronze Friday as the season-opening ISU Four Continents speedskating championships got underway. Ot...
Nov 15, 2024
A French student who was arrested and detained in Tunisia returns to Paris
PARIS (AP) - A French doctoral student detained in Tunisia returned to Paris on Friday after weeks of top-level diplomatic discussions. Victor Dupont, a 27-year-old pursuing a Ph.D. at Aix-Marseille U...
Nov 15, 2024
Germany's Scholz discusses Ukraine with Russia's Putin in first such call in 2 years
BERLIN (AP) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the war in Ukraine in a phone call Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the German government said, in the first such conversation in two...
Nov 15, 2024
Canada Post workers are on strike. Here's what you need to know about your mail
TORONTO - Workers at Canada Post went on strike Friday in a move that is expected to create delays and other disruptions to mail and parcel delivery - just as the Crown corporation prepares for what's...
Nov 15, 2024
Foreign interference inquiry's final report now due by end of January
OTTAWA - The federal government is giving an inquiry into foreign interference an extra month to complete its work. Commissioner Marie-Jose Hogue's final report is now due by the end of January, a mon...
Nov 15, 2024
Annual Wildlights holiday display in Kamloops to begin on Dec. 13
KAMLOOPS - The 2024 edition of Wildlights will get take over the BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops in exactly four weeks time, on Dec. 13.BC Wildlife Park General Manager Glenn Grant says there will also b...
Nov 15, 2024
SOUND OFF: What is the difference between a food policy council and frontline services?
PEOPLE OFTEN MISUNDERSTAND what I do for work. When I tell people I work for the Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC), they ask if that's a food bank. Although frontline services like the food bank hav...
Nov 15, 2024
McIlroy one off the lead at World Tour Championship and in good shape to clinch Race to Dubai title
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - The path is clear for Rory McIlroy to clinch the year-long Race to Dubai title and be crowned the European tour's best player for a sixth time. He's well in contenti...
Nov 15, 2024
Ludvig resigns as Storm head coach, returns to Czechia due to personal reasons
KAMLOOPS - The head coach of the Kamloops Storm has resigned. In a news release issued late Thursday (Nov. 14) afternoon, the Storm announced Jan Ludvig is leaving Kamloops' Junior A Tier 2 hockey clu...
Nov 15, 2024
Canada Post workers go on strike Friday morning, disrupting deliveries
Canada Post workers are on strike after failing to reach a negotiated agreement with their employer. Canadian Union of Postal Workers says approximately 55,000 workers are striking, claiming little pr...
Nov 15, 2024
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SOUND OFF: What is the difference between a food policy council and frontline services?
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