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Valleyview Secondary School community looking forward to 'no more portables'
KAMLOOPS - Students and faculty at Valleyview Secondary were elated to get a first look at the design preview for the $34.5 million expansion to their school. VSS Principal Barb Hamblett says the virt...
Nov 29, 2019 (Image Credit: CHP Architects)
Organizer of B.C. Interior logging truck rally says province hasn't acknowledged movement
KAMLOOPS - Howard McKimmon doesn't know how much longer the forest industry in Merritt can last. "If something happened to our current mill that's here now [Aspen Planers], the impact on Merritt would...
Nov 29, 2019 Hundreds of logging trucks from the B.C. Interior convoyed down to Vancouver as part of a rally in September (Image Credit: CFJC Today)
B.C. RCMP announce charges in 1993 homicide of 23-year-old Vicki Black
VANCOUVER - The RCMP in British Columbia say a man is in custody and facing a murder charge in the homicide of a 23-year-old woman in Vancouver in 1993. The Mounties announced in a news release Friday...
Nov 29, 2019
Kamloops RCMP investigating suspicious death on North Shore
KAMLOOPS - Human remains have been discovered in Kamloops, and police are investigating the death of this person as suspicious.Kamloops RCMP plainclothes commander Staff Sgt. Simon Pillay says that po...
Nov 29, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today / Chad Klassen
Compensate woman detained in Montreal handrail dispute, Supreme Court orders
OTTAWA - A Quebec police officer stepped over the line when he detained a woman for refusing to hold onto an escalator handrail, the Supreme Court of Canada said in a scathing ruling on Friday that al...
Nov 29, 2019
Panel created by Quebec government says access to assisted death should be expanded
QUEBEC - A panel of experts is recommending the Quebec government expand access to medical aid in dying. In recommendations made public today, the group said people should be allowed to make advance d...
Nov 29, 2019
Jurors in Bebawi trial hear ex-SNC president approved yacht for dictator's son
MONTREAL - The trial of a former SNC-Lavalin executive heard Friday that the accused told an RCMP officer the gift of a luxury yacht to the son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadh...
Nov 29, 2019
Arbitrator to decide soon in case of rail conductor fired for social media posts
CALGARY - A train conductor who was fired from Canadian Pacific Railway two years ago over social media posts says she expects to find out soon whether she'll get her job back. Stephanie Katelnikoff, ...
Nov 29, 2019
Court tosses federal bid to quash deadline on child welfare payments
OTTAWA - The federal government has lost its bid to delay a deadline for compensating First Nations families torn apart by an underfunded child welfare system, as part of a Federal Court decision...
Nov 29, 2019
Despite U.S. calls for more, Canada's defence spending set to stay the same
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely to face questions from other leaders of the NATO military alliance next week as new figures show Canadian military spending is expected to remain ...
Nov 29, 2019
