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Penticton beach assault victim awakes from coma
PENTICTON, B.C. - Chelsea Townend credits her faith and her husband's strength as he makes a remarkable recovery in hospital, more than three weeks after a vicious assault on Okanagan Lake Beach in Pe...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: Chelsea Townend / Global Okanagan
GINTA: Sometimes we need a break from it all
NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I SEE IT, I never get tired of it: the emerald sheen of the surrounding hills this time of the year, the play of cloud shadows and sunshine that makes the grasslands look as i...
May 27, 2019 Image Credit: Daniela Ginta
Court says B.C. can't restrict oil shipments in key case for Trans Mountain
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Court of Appeal says the province cannot restrict oil shipments through its borders in a decision that marks a win for the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline expans...
May 24, 2019 Image Credit: Canadian Press
MLA Milobar blasts government after major jump in Revelstoke-area highway project cost
KAMLOOPS - The BC Liberal MLA for Kamloops-North Thompson is raising his eyebrows after the cost of a highway improvement project increased by 35 per cent in the span of about three months. In Februar...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: Flickr / Government of B.C.
CHARBONNEAU: Sometimes it's not easy being a pro-vaxxer
DESPITE THE FACT THAT VACCINES have saved uncountable lives and virtually wiped out smallpox, polio, tetanus and rabies, vaccine risks exist. When those risks result in death, people lose trust in all...
May 23, 2019 Image Credit: Felipe Caparros Cruz / Dreamstime.com
Terrace to get new $447.5 million state-of-the-art hospital
TERRACE, B.C. - Terrace will be upgrading their current 78-bed hospital to a state-of-the-art one more than double its size. The business plan for the $447.5 million new Mills Memorial Hospital was co...
May 21, 2019 Image Credit: CKPG Today
RCMP say missing Alberta man could be in B.C.
CALGARY - Police in Calgary are asking for the public's help to find a man who went missing earlier this month.Brian Gresl was last seen on Wednesday, May 15 in the 8400 block of Elbow Drive S.W. in C...
May 21, 2019 Image Credit: Calgary Police handout
GINTA: The world can be changed for the better and many are doing it already
IF YOU WERE TO SIT WITH US FOR DINNER on any given night, you would be privy to a recurrent conversation that surfaces whenever social issues such as poverty, violation of human rights and modern-day ...
May 20, 2019 Image Credit: Oliver Perez / Dreamstime.com
ROTHENBURGER: Once again, we vow never to let it happen again
SO OFTEN WE HEAR of tragedies after which we all vow to make sure they never happen again. "We have to make sure no one else ever has to go through that," we say. And yet, the same bad things happen a...
May 20, 2019 Image Credit: CFJC Today
NEUSTAETER: Bikinis, bistros and the business of exploiting women
One of the great challenges of raising a daughter is teaching her how to clothe her body. It's important to respect her individuality and empower her own sense of style without allowing current fashio...
May 19, 2019 Image Credit: Mykola Velychko / Dreamstime.com
