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VIDEO: Marion Schilling teachers go the extra mile for student with special needs
KAMLOOPS - Teachers at many schools in the Kamloops area have been going above and beyond to keep connected to their students while classes are suspended.For one Marion Schilling student, the gesture ...
Apr 09, 2020 Image Credit: Facebook / Angie Schumi
Quebec health-care workers going without protective equipment, union says
OTTAWA - A health-care union in Quebec says workers dealing with at-risk patients are going without protective equipment in some cases, sparking criticism of the national emergency stockpile. The Fede...
Apr 09, 2020
Hamilton's 2030 Commonwealth Games bid leaders mull flip to 2026
Hamilton has a choice between poetry and a slam dunk. Canada's candidate city for the 2030 Commonwealth Games has been asked to consider a bid for 2026 instead because of a global dearth of citie...
Apr 09, 2020
Kamloops physician encourages use of virtual doctors appointments
KAMLOOPS - The Thompson Region Division of Family Practice is urging people dealing with medical issues to reach out to their family physicians. "We can help you with a variety of your health needs," ...
Apr 09, 2020 File Photo (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
CHARBONNEAU: Some still feel COVID-19 is a hoax
THE INCONVENIENT TRUTH OF COVID-19 is that it's going to kill millions. That reality is slowly dawning on a majority of Canadians as the virus moves closer to home. However a small minority see it as ...
Apr 09, 2020 Image Credit: Nunataki / Dreamstime.com
Blazers' goalie Garand named top scholastic athlete in WHL's Western Conference
KAMLOOPS - In his first year as the Kamloops Blazers starting goaltender,17-year-old Dylan Garand has been awarded the Daryl K. (Doc) Seaman Memorial Trophy as the WHL Western Conference Scholastic Pl...
Apr 09, 2020 Image Credit: Kamloops Blazers/Allen Douglas
Climate, clean tech could take centre stage in federal economic recovery plans
OTTAWA - The federal government is quietly looking at longer-term recovery plans from the COVID-19 crisis even as its focus remains squarely on getting more than $100 billion in emergency economic&nbs...
Apr 09, 2020
TRU nursing students able to apply for work on frontlines after practicums cancelled
KAMLOOPS - Healthcare workers are needed more than ever amidst the pandemic. But some of the help provided by TRU nursing students has been missing during a critical time. The COVID-19 pandemic not on...
Apr 09, 2020 Practicums for second and third-year TRU nursing students were cancelled (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
Saudi Arabian-Canadian arms deal improved, more transparent: federal government
OTTAWA - The federal government says it has improved a controversial contract to sell light-armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia by making its details more transparent to the Canadian publ...
Apr 09, 2020
Teen dies in hospital after police shooting during vehicle stop in Winnipeg
Winnipeg police say a 16-year old girl shot by an officer has died in hospital. Manitoba's Independent Investigation Unit says officers were pursuing a stolen vehicle in the city Thursday evening...
Apr 09, 2020
