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MAPS: Thefts of bicycles and from motor vehicles — Week of Sept. 20, 2021
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops saw a lighter week in bicycle thefts and thefts from motor vehicles.According to Kamloops RCMP, there were 37 thefts from motor vehicle and six bicycle thefts reported between Sept...
Oct 06, 2021
NATO expels 8 'undeclared' Russian intelligence officers
BRUSSELS (AP) - NATO on Wednesday expelled eight members of Russia's mission to the military alliance, saying that they were secretly working as intelligence officers and cut the size of Moscow's team...
Oct 06, 2021
Burlington welterweight Mike Malott wins UFC contract with submission victory
Canadian welterweight Mike (Proper) Malott is headed to the UFC after a 39-second submission win on Dana White's Contender Series. The 29-year-old from Burlington, Ont., was awarded a UFC contract aft...
Oct 06, 2021
Brazil, Mexico challenge Canada for 2022 men's world curling berth
LACOMBE, Alta. - Canada has to win a berth in the 2022 world men's curling championship because of a challenge from Brazil and Mexico. Reigning Canadian champion Brendan Bottcher from Edmonton will fa...
Oct 06, 2021
Moderna asks Health Canada to authorize booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine
OTTAWA - U.S. drugmaker Moderna is asking Health Canada to authorize a booster shot of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company submitted data on a booster shot that is half the size of the doses used to giv...
Oct 06, 2021
General who wrote reference for sex offender reassigned after outrage over new post
OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has removed a senior officer who wrote a reference for a convicted sex offender from his job reviewing ways to eliminate military sexual misconduct. Vice chief of th...
Oct 06, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: What we learned about ourselves in the Great Facebook Crash
KAMLOOPS - WHEN FACEBOOK WENT DOWN we all did our best to get through it. We even tried to laugh.My favourite came from Kamloops school trustee and law professor John O'Fee, who posted when it was all...
Oct 06, 2021
Nobel Prize in chemistry honors tool to build molecules
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to German scientist Benjamin List of the Max Planck Institute and Scotland-born scientist David W.C. MacMillan of Princeton University. ...
Oct 06, 2021
Emergency health-care summit, NDP postelection priorities : In The News for Oct. 6
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 Oct. 6 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Oct 06, 2021
Seniors advocate to release review of COVID-19 outbreaks at B.C. care facilities
VICTORIA - British Columbia's seniors advocate is set to release a review of COVID-19 outbreaks in the province's care facilities. Isobel Mackenzie said last spring the review will examine more than t...
Oct 06, 2021
