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CHARBONNEAU: Coronavirus gives the virus family a bad name
MOST VIRUSES AND BENIGN and some are even lifesaving. Only a few cause panic and fear.We are literally immersed in viruses. A UBC professor has discovered that billions of them rain down on us daily. ...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: Konstantinos A / Dreamstime.com

B.C. advises against all non-essential travel outside of Canada
VICTORIA - Health officials in British Columbia are advising against all non-essential travel outside of Canada including to the United States. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says anyone w...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020

Sprott Shaw College cancels public events, including graduations, amid COVID-19 risks
KAMLOOPS - Sprott Shaw College is taking precautionary steps to limit the risk of COVID-19 - including cancelling events at the Kamloops campus. Sprott Shaw president Victor Tesan says all public even...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: Google Maps

NHL suspends season due to COVID-19 pandemic
NEW YORK - The NHL has suspended its season immediately due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The league made the announcement Thursday afternoon.The NHL advised all its clubs earlier in the day not to conduct...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: The Canadian Press

Trudeau goes into self-isolation over COVID-19 concerns
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his wife are in self-isolation over COVID-19 concerns, which has forced the cancellation of an in-person meeting of Canada's first ministers. The Prime Minis...
James Peters Mar 12, 2020 Image Credit: Canadian Press

TV shoot looking for Kamloops-area extras
KAMLOOPS - Yet another major Hollywood production will be taking place in the Kamloops area shortly - and it's looking for locals who want to be extras. Van Helsing Season 5 will be filming at Tranqui...
James Peters Mar 11, 2020 Image Credit: NBCUniversal

WHO declares COVID-19 crisis is now a pandemic
ROME - Expressing increasing alarm about mounting infections, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who hea...
James Peters Mar 11, 2020

UPDATE: Missing man located
KAMLOOPS - UPDATE: Kamloops RCMP says the man reported missing March 10 has been found.
James Peters Mar 10, 2020

Plane carrying Canadians from Grand Princess cruise ship arrives in Canada
OTTAWA - A plane carrying Canadians who were on a cruise ship with a cluster of novel coronavirus cases arrived back in Canada this morning. The government-chartered aircraft landed at Canadian Forces...
James Peters Mar 10, 2020
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James Peters Mar 09, 2020

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