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Demonstrators block key access to Vancouver port over jail for pipeline protester
VANCOUVER - Indigenous youth calling themselves Braided Warriors have blocked a major Vancouver intersection to protest a 90-day jail sentence handed to an anti-pipeline protester.A police spokesman s...
Mar 03, 2021
Shuswap mother and daughter win $500,000 lotto prize
SALMON ARM, B.C. - Theresa Worthington and her daughter Alexa thought they were stopping at the store to satisfy a licorice craving, but instead ended up leaving with something sweeter.The mother-daug...
Mar 03, 2021
Public Health Agency of Canada budgets $5B for COVID-19 vaccines, treatments
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada expects to spend up to $5 billion on vaccines and other COVID-19 treatments. Procurement Minister Anita Anand previously said vaccines alone would cost at l...
Mar 03, 2021
States rapidly expanding vaccine access as supplies surge
Buoyed by a surge in vaccine shipments, states and cities are rapidly expanding eligibility for COVID-19 shots to teachers, 55-and-over Americans and other groups as the U.S. races to beat back the vi...
Mar 03, 2021
SOUND OFF: Infrastructure funding will bring jobs and support our recovery
FOR MOST PEOPLE, the word infrastructure doesn't create a whole lot of excitement. It's a vague term that makes you think of heavy machinery and confusing acronyms. It doesn't sound like something tha...
Mar 03, 2021
SD73 board chooses Chilliwack's Station One Architects to design Parkcrest Elementary School replacement
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops-Thompson School District's Board of Education has chosen the architecture firm that will design the new Parkcrest Elementary School.Station One Architects, formerly known as CH...
Mar 03, 2021
Detectives look at SUV's 'black box' from Tiger Woods crash
LOS ANGELES - Detectives are looking at data from the so-called "black box" of Tiger Woods' SUV to get a clearer picture of what occurred during the Southern California rollover crash last week that s...
Mar 03, 2021
Ex-NFL player Kellen Winslow II gets 14 years for rapes
SAN DIEGO - Former NFL player Kellen Winslow II was sentenced Wednesday to 14 years in prison for multiple rapes and other sexual offences against five women in Southern California, including one who ...
Mar 03, 2021
Minassian decision opens door for verdict of not criminally responsible due to autism
TORONTO - The judge who found Alek Minassian guilty of murder and attempted murder in the Toronto van attack has set Canadian precedent by considering autism a "mental disorder" under the Criminal Cod...
Mar 03, 2021
Strawweight Randa (Quiet Storm) Markos becomes third Canadian on UFC 260 card
TORONTO - Veteran Canadian strawweight Randa (Quiet Storm) Markos will face Luana Pinheiro at UFC 260 on March 27. It will mark the 17th UFC fight for the 35-year-old from Windsor, Ont., who made her ...
Mar 03, 2021
