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Six-hour closure planned for avalanche control along Coquihalla Highway
KAMLOOPS - One of the busiest highways in the B.C. Interior will be closed for several hours starting Tuesday night (Jan. 5).Drive BC says the Coquihalla Highway between Merritt and Hope will be close...
Jan 05, 2021
Canada probing whether delaying second COVID-19 vaccine doses could help more people
OTTAWA - Canada's chief public health officer says she has asked the national vaccine advisory panel to investigate if there is merit to delaying second doses of COVID-19 vaccines in a bid to get more...
Jan 05, 2021
Info watchdog raps Privy Council Office for terminating access requests from public
OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog has chastised the prime minister's bureaucrats for shutting down several requests from the public without good cause. In a series of decisions made public Tue...
Jan 05, 2021
Human rights commission to investigate death of seven-year-old Quebec girl
MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights and youth rights commission is launching an investigation into the death of a seven-year-old girl found Sunday north of Montreal. The commission said in a statement th...
Jan 05, 2021
Trudeau says he too is frustrated by holiday travellers, pace of vaccine rollout
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he shares the frustrations of Canadians with those who've chosen to travel abroad over the holiday season. Trudeau says changes are coming to a new federal ...
Jan 05, 2021
MAP: Thefts from motor vehicles — Week of December 14, 2020
KAMLOOPS - Thieves were busy shopping for gifts in Kamloops vehicles during the week before Christmas. According to Kamloops RCMP, there were 15 recorded thefts from motor vehicles during the week of ...
Jan 05, 2021
If 2020 was a watershed year for athlete activism, will the momentum continue in '21?
TORONTO - An athlete with a megaphone, fist raised in furious protest. Teammates kneeling, heads bowed, linked arm-in-arm. Political slogans - "Vote Warnock" - across the chest of warmup shirts. A pai...
Jan 05, 2021
US factories grew in December at fastest pace since mid-2018
WASHINGTON - American factories grew in December at the fastest pace in more than two years as manufacturing continued to weather the pandemic better than the battered services sector. The Institute f...
Jan 05, 2021
Quebec City long-term care employee in his 50s dies from COVID-19
MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec City say a worker at one of the first long-term care homes in the province to receive COVID-19 vaccines has died after being infected with the novel coronavirus...
Jan 05, 2021
Nearly half of Canadians visited friends, family over holidays, new poll suggests
OTTAWA - A new survey suggests nearly half of Canadians visited with family or friends over the winter holiday period. The Lger/Association for Canadian Studies poll found 48 per cent of those surveye...
Jan 05, 2021
