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CFJC Midday - Catch regular screenings at the Paramount Theatre including the award winning film 'Belfast'!
KFS Executive Director Dusan Magdolen, talks about the 25th Anniversary for this year's Kamloops Film Festivals, DarkFest, MovieMart, and gives us a sneak peek into some of the films coming to the Par...
Jan 11, 2022
B.C. braces for heavy rain, potential floods as latest atmospheric river arrives
VANCOUVER - The latest atmospheric river to wash over British Columbia was expected to soak parts of the south coast with as much as 150 millimetres of rain in a series of waves that won't relent unti...
Jan 11, 2022
Quebec's tax on the unvaccinated could enhance inequity: Black Health Alliance
OTTAWA - The Black Health Alliance says Quebec's proposal to bring in a financial penalty for unvaccinated residents risks further entrenching inequities in Canada's pandemic response and eroding trus...
Jan 11, 2022
P.E.I. potato farmers seek end to trade suspension, but U.S. officials want more data
FREDERICTON - Farmers on Prince Edward Island say there's no scientific basis for a suspension of exports of Island potatoes to the United States and it needs to be lifted now, but Canadian officials ...
Jan 11, 2022
First Afghan human rights activists arrive six months after Ottawa's promise of help
OTTAWA - Six months after the federal government promised to help thousands of Afghan women leaders, human rights activists and journalists flee to Canada, the first planeload has landed. Immigration ...
Jan 11, 2022
Kelsey Cruz earns Athlete of the Week nod from TRU WolfPack
KAMLOOPS - After a big effort in a tight game against the top team in their division, WolfPack Women's Basketball player Kelsey Cruz was recognized as TRU's Athlete of the Week.The 2nd-year guard from...
Jan 11, 2022
Pope slips out of Vatican to visit record shop, gets CD
ROME (AP) - Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart "lifts you to God." But it still came as a something of a shock to see the 85-year-o...
Jan 11, 2022
Omicron may be headed for a rapid drop in US and Britain
Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The rea...
Jan 11, 2022
RCMP commissioner breached duty with slow response to watchdog report, judge rules
OTTAWA - A federal judge says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki flouted the law by failing to respond promptly to a watchdog report about alleged spying on anti-oil protesters. In a newly released decisi...
Jan 11, 2022
Make Inuktitut official language in Canada, says Inuit rep on UN task force
OTTAWA - Canada is to spearhead a 10-year drive by the United Nations to revive and protect worldwide Indigenous languages, including endangered tongues such as Michif, the Mtis language. Aluki Kotier...
Jan 11, 2022
