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ROTHENBURGER: Downtown mural program needs to hit the reset button
KAMLOOPS - HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWEST MURAL in downtown Kamloops?I got a look at it and I'm not impressed. In the past, I've been critical of a lot of public art, and complimentary to quite a bit as wel...
Nov 14, 2019 Image Credit: Mel Rothenburger
Split Supreme Court appears ready to allow Trump to end DACA
WASHINGTON - Sharply at odds with liberal justices, the Supreme Court's conservative majority seemed ready Tuesday to allow the Trump administration to abolish protections that permit 660,000 immigran...
Nov 14, 2019
Workers at risk of losing jobs to AI can be retrained for health care, RBC says
OTTAWA - A new report says some of the more than one million Canadian workers who could lose their jobs to machines could fill growing gaps in the nation's health-care system with the right train...
Nov 14, 2019
Pope demands tech companies prevent kids from viewing porn
VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis is demanding that Facebook, Apple, Google and other tech companies urgently take measures to remove child porn from the web and to prevent children from accessing pornograp...
Nov 14, 2019
Turkey to deport IS suspect stuck at Greek border to US
ANKARA, Turkey - A U.S. national and suspected Islamic State group member, who has spent three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him, will be repatriated t...
Nov 14, 2019
Powerful hard-liner: Iran should stop honouring nuclear deal
TEHRAN, Iran - A member of Iran's powerful Guardian Council says the Islamic Republic should stop honouring all terms of the collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers amid tensions with the U.S. ...
Nov 14, 2019
An unapologetic Don Cherry and a button-loving toddler; In-The-News for Nov. 12
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 12. What we are watching in Canada ... MI...
Nov 14, 2019
Singh, a fireball and outdated Disney classics; In-The-News Nov. 14
In-The-News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 14. What we are watching i...
Nov 14, 2019
Adoption centre closes despite effort to save it; B.C. left with two agencies
VANCOUVER - Patricia Pearson has dealt with the shock and disappointment of her adoption agency announcing its closure while she was still waiting for a child - twice. Choices Adoption and Pregnancy C...
Nov 14, 2019
Father of Broncos player who died says Alberta organ donation bill needs work
EDMONTON - The father of a Broncos hockey player whose organs were donated after he died in a catastrophic bus crash says a presumed consent bill before the Alberta legislature is ...
Nov 14, 2019
