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SOUND OFF: Setting the record straight on NDP's imaginary 'savings'
TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY seem to be big challenges for John Horgan and his NDP government right now- especially when it comes to the situation at ICBC. While the government is touting all sorts...
Feb 18, 2021
BC Trucking Association noting increase in commercial traffic during pandemic
KAMLOOPS - Throughout the pandemic, commercial trucking has been deemed an essential service and the province is seeing an uptick in this sort of traffic. While most Canadians are encouraged not to tr...
Feb 18, 2021
Lowry listed as questionable in second game against Bucks with sprained thumb
MILWAUKEE - Kyle Lowry is listed as questionable for the Toronto Raptors' game Thursday in Milwaukee with a sprained left thumb. The Raptors point guard injured his thumb in the first quarter of Tuesd...
Feb 18, 2021
Coldest Night of the Year raising money for Men's Sober Living Centre
KAMLOOPS - A fundraiser to help support an organization that looks after Kamloops' homeless and hurting is set to take place in a virtual format Saturday (Feb. 20). The Coldest Night or the Year fundr...
Feb 18, 2021
Shock of million-dollar lotto win shakes up Merritt woman's Saturday night
MERRITT, B.C. - It was a non-descript Saturday night for Natalie Jylha - watching TV and scrolling through Facbook when the Merritt woman's life changed.Seeing there was winning Lotto 6/49 ticket purc...
Feb 18, 2021
Unpaid oilpatch property taxes triple in two years, say rural municipalities
EDMONTON - Alberta's rural towns say property taxes that have gone unpaid by the province's struggling oilpatch have tripled in two years. A survey released by the Rural Municipalities of Alberta says...
Feb 18, 2021
Mounties confirm fatal crash on Coquihalla south of Merritt Wednesday
MERRITT, B.C. - The southbound lanes of the Coquihalla Highway, between Merritt and Hope, re-opened earlier Thursday morning (Feb. 18) following a deadly crash late yesterday afternoon that prompted t...
Feb 18, 2021
Cost of mandatory quarantine for newly arrived refugees to be covered by government
OTTAWA - Newly arriving refugees will have the cost of their mandatory hotel quarantines covered by the federal government. The federal government is also covering the cost of mandatory COVID-19 testi...
Feb 18, 2021
CHARBONNEAU: The new climate deniers
THE NEW CLIMATE DENIERS no longer deny that climate change is happening. It's become too obvious that it is.It used to be that climate change deniers could ridicule the notion that the Earth was warmi...
Feb 18, 2021
'It destroyed him.' Lionel Desmond's friend and fellow infantryman recalls firefights
PORT HAWKESBURY, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a former soldier from Nova Scotia killed three family members and himself in 2017 heard today from one of Lionel Desmond's closest friends and fell...
Feb 18, 2021
