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B.C. Unemployment still the best
KAMLOOPS - Statistics Canada says the economy added 34-thousand, 500 jobs last month, as the unemployment rate ticked down. The number of full-time jobs rose by almost 36-thousand in January, while pa...
Feb 07, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press
Canadian ice dancers Gilles and Poirier win silver at Four Continents
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Canadian ice dancers Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier won silver on Friday at the ISU Four Continents figure skating competition. Madison Chock and Evan Bates o...
Feb 07, 2020
Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Beatrice to marry in May
LONDON - Britain is set for another royal wedding. Buckingham Palace announced Friday that Queen Elizabeth II's granddaughter Princess Beatrice will marry in London on May 29. The palace says 31-year-...
Feb 07, 2020
'Pitch Perfect' star Ben Platt picking up honour at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Ben Platt's latest accolades are pitch perfect. The award-winning actor and musician is being honoured by Harvard University's famed Hasty Pudding Theatricals as its 2020 Man of the...
Feb 07, 2020
Pelosi shreds Trump's speech. Right there on the podium.
WASHINGTON - And then she tore up the speech. No sooner had President Donald Trump finished his State of the Union address than House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped the paper it was printed on in two. Ri...
Feb 07, 2020
Unknowns of the new virus make global quarantines a struggle
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - Health authorities are scrambling to halt the spread of a new virus that has killed hundreds in China, restricting visitors from the country and confining thousands on crui...
Feb 07, 2020
Not guilty: Senate acquits Trump of impeachment charges
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump won impeachment acquittal in the U.S. Senate, bringing to a close only the third presidential trial in American history with votes that split the country, tested ci...
Feb 07, 2020
Canadian-American couple going 'stir-crazy' on quarantined cruise ship off Japan
A Canadian-American couple on-board a cruise ship that has been quarantined off the coast of Japan say they're "a little stir-crazy" from being confined to their room. A two-week&n...
Feb 07, 2020
Avalanche in Turkey wipes out rescue team; 38 dead overall
ANKARA, Turkey - An avalanche slammed into a mountain road in eastern Turkey on Wednesday, wiping out a huge team of rescue workers sent to find people missing in an earlier avalanche. Officials said ...
Feb 07, 2020
Five more Canadians test positive for the new coronavirus aboard cruise ship
Five more Canadians on a cruise ship that has been quarantined off the coast of Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus, bringing the total on board the vessel to seven. The Canad...
Feb 07, 2020
