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SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud, will pay a $280M fine for Libyan work
MONTREAL - A division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. will plead guilty to a charge of fraud and pay a $280-million penalty related to work the company did in Libya. The plea deal comes on the heels of the ...
Dec 18, 2019
In reversal, Hallmark will reinstate same-sex marriage ads
NEW YORK - The Hallmark Channel, reversing what it called a "wrong decision," said Sunday it will reinstate commercials featuring same-sex couples that it had pulled following a complaint from a conse...
Dec 18, 2019
Canadian Press NewsAlert: Jody Wilson-Raybould is CP's newsmaker of the year
OTTAWA - The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public servant and possibly a second majority mandate; and now the woman at the centre...
Dec 18, 2019
Weinstein: Sex assault charges have made me 'forgotten man'
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein defended himself as a pioneer in advancing the careers of women in the film industry in the wake of scores of sexual misconduct allegations that launched the #MeToo movemen...
Dec 18, 2019
Kamloops lawyer chosen for Queen's counsel
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops lawyer is one of 26 across the province to be given the prestigious Queen's counsel designation.Brad Smith was called to the bar in 2000 and spent more than a decade as a prosecu...
Dec 18, 2019 Image Credit: Brad Smith
Avalanche control closures and a strange travel advisory on Interior highways
KAMLOOPS - Avalanche control work will result in a pair of closures on the Trans Canada Highway in the Interior Wednesday morning (Dec. 18).The first closure is scheduled for an area west of Revelstok...
Dec 18, 2019
Right whale gives birth to first calf off the coast of Georgia: Oceana
HALIFAX - An international conservation group has announced the birth of the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2019-2020 calving season. Oceana says the calf was born Monday off the co...
Dec 18, 2019
Statistics Canada says annual pace of inflation climbs to 2.2 per cent
OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation heated up in November as gasoline prices posted their first year-over-year increase since October 2018, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The agency said the...
Dec 18, 2019
ROTHENBURGER: Paying ransom to LifeLabs hackers might encourage further attacks
LIFELABS REVEALED YESTERDAY that information on 15 million customers was hacked in late October, mostly in Ontario and B.C.Given the massive number of files, it's safe to say thousands of them probabl...
Dec 18, 2019 Image Credit: Global National
Provincial wildfire service spokesman Skrepnek joining TNRD
KAMLOOPS - The man who was the face of B.C.'s response during some of the worst wildfire seasons in history is moving on.In a social media post, Chief Wildfire Information Officer Kevin Skrepnek says ...
Dec 18, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
