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China raises defense budget 7.2% as it pushes for global heft and regional tensions continue
BEIJING (AP) - China on Tuesday announced a 7.2% increase in its defense budget, which is already the world's second-highest behind the United States at 1.6 trillion yuan ($222 billion), roughly mirro...
Mar 04, 2024

Kamloops Storm set for third straight Game 7, searching for revenge
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Storm are no strangers to the two greatest words in sports - Game 7 - as for the second straight year versus Sicamous Eagles, and third overall, it will be winner takes all Mon...
Mar 04, 2024

Canadian Olympic committees call on federal government for $104M to 'avoid crisis'
OTTAWA - With the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games set for this summer, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee are requesting an additional $104-million in funding fr...
Mar 04, 2024

CFJC Midday — TRU IDays celebrating 30 years! Annual celebration of diversity brings the world together on campus
Baihua Chadwick and Roderick McCormick discuss IDays and the partnership with the All My Relations Centre, empowering Indigenous women through research and knowledge creation, with a focus on food sov...
Mar 04, 2024

Longtime B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman won't seek re-election in fall vote
VICTORIA - British Columbia's longtime Environment Minister George Heyman says he's decided not to run in this fall's provincial election. Seventy-four-year-old Heyman says in a social media post that...
Mar 04, 2024

CFJC Midday - The importance of taking multivitamins, health benefits and the different kinds to choose from
Debbie Taylor, Vitamin Manager with Nutters Everyday Naturals, talks about the health benefits of taking a daily multivitamin.
Mar 04, 2024

CFJC Midday - Advance Care Planning and Palliative Information Sessions; Kamloops Hospice hosting upcoming bi-monthly workshops
Pamela Young and Ashley Mulligan from Marjorie Willoughby Snowden Hospice Memorial Home, preview two upcoming workshops which are free of charge and open to the general public, healthcare workers, peo...
Mar 04, 2024

Four provinces confirm measles cases with Montreal deemed Canada's epicentre
Seventeen cases of measles have been confirmed in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia - more than half of those in the Montreal area, while one Ontario case has been linked to a high sc...
Mar 04, 2024

Raptors sign centre Kelly Olynyk to multi-year contract extension
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have signed centre Kelly Olynyk to a multi-year contract extension, the NBA club announced Monday. Details of the extension were not announced, but ESPN reported it was a...
Mar 04, 2024

Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted a new Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally and set up another legal showdown over th...
Mar 04, 2024

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