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B.C. order for health workers' COVID-19 vax status lifts mention of vaccine deadlines
VICTORIA - British Columbia has removed any mention of COVID-19 vaccination deadlines from its order requiring health-care professionals to report their vaccination status. A statement issued late Mon...
Mar 08, 2022
Group hopes to make fourth attempt to have Russian pianist perform in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The decision to cancel a Russian pianist's concert in Vancouver over concerns of protests has left Leila Getz conflicted as she ponders whether a rising young superstar she has repeatedly ...
Mar 08, 2022
Colombia protest leaders hope to gain seats in Congress
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Jennifer Pedraza has been spending a great deal of time in the streets recently - leading protests that stopped Colombia's government from raising taxes on the middle class and...
Mar 08, 2022
6 teens charged with murder in Iowa school shooting
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Des Moines Police say they have arrested and charged six teenagers with murder in a shooting outside a school that killed a 15-year-old boy and seriously injured two teenage gi...
Mar 08, 2022
Jury deliberations begin in 1st trial over Capitol riot
WASHINGTON (AP) - A federal jury began deliberating on Tuesday in the case against a Texas man whose trial is the first for the hundreds of people charged in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last year. Gu...
Mar 08, 2022
Liberals accuse B.C. government of ‘axing’ temporary patios
VERNON - The B.C. Liberals are accusing the NDP government of shutting down temporary patio permits by introducing more red tape and fees.Todd Stone, the opposition's critic for Jobs, Economic Recover...
Mar 08, 2022
Canada's Arendz collects 10th Paralympic medal, a gold in 10K biathlon
Mark Arendz set the bar impossibly high by climbing the medal podium in every one of his six races at the Pyeongchang Paralympics in 2018. It was a Canadian record for a medals won in a winter Paralym...
Mar 08, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Why we should go back to three-year terms for City council
WE'RE INTO THE opening phase of civic election 2022, with two candidates already declared for mayor of Kamloops. This is the time when anyone thinking of running for office needs to begin making serio...
Mar 08, 2022
Trudeau in Latvia, new Trans Mountain expansion conditions : In The News for March 8
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 March 8 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Mar 08, 2022
B.C. adds conditions for Trans Mountain expansion, ministers say concerns remain
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has amended the conditions of its environmental assessment certificate for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansionand told the federal government it still has concerns about...
Mar 08, 2022
