Author Archives:
Hot spot: California hospitals buckle as virus cases surge
LOS ANGELES - Hospitals across California have all but run out of intensive care beds for COVID-19 patients, ambulances are backing up outside emergency rooms, and tents for triaging the sick are goin...
Dec 17, 2020
Coalition Avenir Quebec member out of caucus for not following COVID-19 rules at bar
QUEBEC - A member of the governing Coalition Avenir Quebec party is temporarily out of caucus after a video surfaced of him breaking COVID-19 rules at a holiday gathering. In a statement released by t...
Dec 17, 2020
CFJC Midday - Find out how to spread some holiday cheer for Operation Red Nose!
Carolynn Boomer, PacificSport Interior BC Executive Director talks about this year's education campaign, and several contests and giveaways!
Dec 17, 2020
Big White ski resort in Kelowna, B.C., fires staff after spread of COVID-19
KELOWNA, B.C. - Big White Ski Resort says it has fired "a number" of staff after a cluster of 60 cases of COVID-19 was discovered earlier this week. Michael Ballingall, the senior vice-president for t...
Dec 17, 2020
Senator links drug used in botched U.S. lethal injections to assisted death in Canada
OTTAWA - A Conservative senator is questioning why a drug blamed for botched executions in the United States is being used to provide medical assistance in dying in Canada.Sen. Michael MacDonald says ...
Dec 17, 2020
Canadian flyweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson looks to add to UFC winning ways
Canadian flyweight Gillian (The Savage) Robertson has won four of her last five UFC fights, adding to the record book as she goes. The 25-year-old from Niagara Falls, Ont., who now calls Port Saint Lu...
Dec 17, 2020
Ottawa Redblacks re-sign Canadians Justin Howell, Marco Dubois and Anthony Gosselin
The Ottawa Redblacks have re-signed Canadians Justin Howell, Marco Dubois and Anthony Gosselin to one-year contract extensions.Howell, a defensive back, has played 27 games with the Redblacks since en...
Dec 17, 2020
Quebec unimpressed with Trudeau's offer of long-term care cash if standards met
OTTAWA - Quebec Premier Francois Legault is shrugging off the suggestion that new federal funding for long-term care homes would have to be tied to national standards. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to...
Dec 17, 2020
Canadian Alphonso Davies makes history by earning a spot on FIFPRO World 11
Canadian Alphonso Davies made soccer history Thursday, becoming the first North American player to be voted onto the FIFPRO World 11. The 20-year-old Bayern Munich fullback was the first North America...
Dec 17, 2020
SOUND OFF: Teachers' COVID concerns not being heard by government
AS WE APPROACH THE END of what has been a difficult year, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on the unbelievable work our parents, teachers, support staff and administrators have done to keep our ch...
Dec 17, 2020
