Author Archives: James Peters
B.C. Parks website inundated with thousands of campsite reservation requests Monday
VICTORIA - The province says the B.C. Parks website is slowly recovering after it was overwhelmed by a huge number of reservation requests Monday morning.Reservations opened for camping Monday after t...
May 25, 2020
Snowbird pilots to depart Halifax for Moose Jaw
KAMLOOPS - The Canadian Forces Snowbirds will remain grounded at Kamloops Airport after a tragic crash took the life of a team member just over a week ago, but their pilots are heading home.According ...
May 25, 2020
Trudeau seeks 10 days of paid sick leave for workers in bid for NDP support
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he'll push the provinces to give workers 10 days of paid sick leave a year as the country deals with the COVID-19 pandemic.That appears to meet a key demand...
May 25, 2020
Jump in Interior Health COVID-19 cases due to different counting method, not outbreak: Henry
VICTORIA - Provincial officials are advising Interior Health (IH) residents not to worry, even though new COVID-19 totals released Friday (May 22) show a big jump in cases locally. In a news release, ...
May 22, 2020
Air Force to hold funeral procession in Halifax for victim of Kamloops Snowbirds crash
HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Air Force is organizing a procession through the streets of Halifax this weekend to honour the Snowbirds aerobatic team member who was killed in a recent plane crash.Halif...
May 22, 2020
PETERS: Social media killed nuance and replaced it with the take
I WOULD HATE TO BE RUNNING a high school debate club in 2020.Normally, I'm squarely in the camp of 'the good old days were mostly bad.'But one thing that seems to get further lost as years go by is th...
May 22, 2020
Flood watch issued for Bonaparte; new data shows provincial snowpack on the decline
VICTORIA - The latest assessment from the B.C. River Forecast Centre (RFC) shows province-wide snowpack has started to inch below normal.After a reading of 106 per cent on May 1, the province-wide sno...
May 22, 2020
Feds will fund COVID-19 testing, tracing and data-sharing, Trudeau promises
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government will fund provinces' efforts to test people for COVID-19, track the contacts of those who test positive, and help different jurisdict...
May 22, 2020
Injured pilot makes first public appearance
KAMLOOPS - Injured pilot Captain Richard MacDougall came out in public last night for the first time since the tragic Snowbirds' accident Sunday.Members of the local indigenous community performed a d...
May 22, 2020
Twelve new COVID-19 cases, three new deaths in B.C.
VICTORIA - B.C. health officials are reporting 12 new cases of COVID-19 diagnosed Thursday (May 21), bringing the provincial total to 2,479 test positive cases. In her daily briefing, Provincial Healt...
May 21, 2020
