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Kamloops small businesses still operating, with uncertain financial future
KAMLOOPS - The local business sector is feeling the impacts of COVID-19 both in revenue, and operations. Provincial health officials have mandated that certain businesses need to close for now, to kee...
Mar 25, 2020 (Image Credit: CFJC Today / Kent Simmonds)
CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie looking to keep Canadian football fans informed
TORONTO - Randy Ambrosie hasn't forgotten about CFL fans during the COVID-19 pandemic. The league's commissioner will hold a video town hall question-and-answer session with football su...
Mar 25, 2020
Community-spread cases of COVID-19 are in Interior Health region: Provincial health officer
KAMLOOPS - The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in B.C. is rising daily, and the provincial health officer says community-spread cases are becoming more common.In a news conference Wednesday (March ...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: BC Government
Province records 42 new COVID-19 cases, bringing Wednesday total to 659
VICTORIA - The provincial health officer says, of the 600-plus people now confirmed to COVID-19 in B.C., nearly one-in-ten is a healthcare worker.Dr. Bonnie Henry updated the public on the latest COVI...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: Global BC
Family: US believes ex-FBI agent Robert Levinson has died
WASHINGTON - The family of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson said Wednesday that U.S. government officials have concluded that he has died while in the custody of Iran. The family said in a statement ...
Mar 25, 2020
With a crash and a bang, B.C. residents applaud health-care workers
VANCOUVER - At the same time each night, Rev. Gary Paterson and about half a dozen other neighbours have begun gathering at least two metres apart on the rooftop patio of their building in Vancouver's...
Mar 25, 2020
With a crash and a bang, B.C. residents applaud health-care workers
VANCOUVER - At the same time each night, Rev. Gary Paterson and about half a dozen other neighbours have begun gathering at least two metres apart on the rooftop patio of their building in Vancouver's...
Mar 25, 2020
SOUND OFF: Help is on the way
AT THE TIME I WRITE this week's report from Ottawa, we have just finished a special all night session of parliament passing Bill C-13 "An Act respecting certain measures in response to COVID-19".Despi...
Mar 25, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
CBC says it's working to restore the local TV news it shelved last week
TORONTO - The CBC says it's gradually restoring the local supper-hour TV news it recently shelved. Last week, the public broadcaster drew criticism when it announced it was temporarily scrap...
Mar 25, 2020
Blazers take forward and goaltender with bloodlines in U.S. Prospects draft
KAMLOOP --- The Blazers took a forward and a goaltender in todays Western Hockey League U.S. Prospects Draft.With 14th overall they drafted left winger Drew Stewart from Minnetonka, Minnesota. Draftin...
Mar 25, 2020 Image credit: contributed
