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Urgent alert issued for all of Interior Health; tainted drugs bring lethal overdose risk
KAMLOOPS - Interior Health (IH) has issued an urgent alert for its entire jurisdiction due to tainted street drugs.In an urgent release Wednesday (Feb. 16), the IH Harm Reduction Team says multiple dr...
Feb 16, 2022
Kamloops man wanted for uttering threats and assault arrested after breaching release conditions
KAMLOOPS - A man previously wanted on multiple warrants was arrested and now faces a new charge following a report of an unwanted person on the North Shore.Kamloops resident James Junior Anderson, 38,...
Feb 16, 2022
Heritage minister says Netflix, Disney should contribute more to Canadian culture
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez says streaming platforms such as Netflix, Disney and Amazon are "the new big players" and should contribute more to Canadian culture. In a debate in the Hous...
Feb 16, 2022
Quebec City mayor adds new rules as protest against COVID orders expected on weekend
Quebec City is giving more powers to its police force to control traffic and prohibit the consumption of alcohol outdoors ahead of a protest planned for this weekend against COVID-19 public health ord...
Feb 16, 2022
CFJC Midday - Catch 'Trophy Town' at The Paramount Theatre; an in depth look at the World Champion Trail Smoke Eaters
The Kamloops Film Society's Tom Friedman provides a sneak peek into the highly anticipated documentary about the Trail Smoke Eaters and their unlikely rise to World Hockey Championship icons.
Feb 16, 2022
New leaked data shows most donors to 'Adopt-a-Trucker' GiveSendGo page were Canadian
OTTAWA - A new data leak shows that about 60 per cent of donors to an "Adopt-a-Trucker" page on online fundraising platform GiveSendGo were Canadian and 37 per cent were American. About US$540,000 was...
Feb 16, 2022
Lawyer says he didn't advise B.C. Speaker on clerk's retirement benefit
VANCOUVER - A lawyer who advised British Columbia's former Speaker about a retirement allowance that is the subject of a criminal charge says the name of then-clerk Craig James never came up in those ...
Feb 16, 2022
Volunteers who supported seniors a lasting legacy of pandemic: B.C. seniors advocate
VICTORIA - The advocate for seniors in British Columbia says a rise in volunteer services supporting the elderly has been one of the "brightest lights" throughout the pandemic. Isobel Mackenzie says n...
Feb 16, 2022
Canada's Tyler Pasher scores to lead Houston past Toronto FC in MLS pre-season play
AUSTIN, Texas - A goal by Canadian Tyler Pasher, a former Toronto FC academy member, proved to be the difference Wednesday as Toronto lost 2-1 to the Houston Dynamo in MLS pre-season play. The game wa...
Feb 16, 2022
WolfPack welcome Trinity Western Spartans to the TCC in rare Wednesday nighter
KAMLOOPS - It's been a tough second half of the CanadaWest season for the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack Men's Basketball team, battling injury and illness, and playing many games shorthanded. CF...
Feb 16, 2022
