Kamloops and Area
THROWS NEWS
International recruits from Berlin, Amsterdam move to Kamloops to train with Armstrong, Katzberg
Dylan Armstrong is an Olympic bronze medallist shot putter and a throws coach with a proven track record. He helped Ethan Katzberg become an Olympic and world champion in hammer throw, and Greg Stewart become a Paralympic Games champion in shot put. Armstrong recently accepted two international recruits into his stable...
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REMEMBRANCE DAY
Kamloops Museum and Archives hosting military history tours with local focus
KAMLOOPS - It is Canadian military history, with a Kamloops lens. A series of tours hosted by the City's Kamloops Museum and Archives over the next week and a half gives residents a chance to learn more about the local men and women who served. "We try to talk a little bit about the first and second World Wars, th...
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MISSING: SHANNON WHITE
Search efforts persist, three years since suspicious disappearance of Shannon White
KAMLOOPS - It's now been three years since Shannon White, a 32-year-old woman living in Kamloops, went missing after not showing up for work. Extensive searches have been conducted throughout the Kamloops area, involving RCMP, the Serious Crimes Unit, and the Search Recovery and Detection K9's of BC. Police have previo...
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official military fly-past
Kamloops to receive Remembrance Day fly-past from 410 Squadron CF-18 jets
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops residents can look to the sky this Remembrance Day, as the city is going to have an official military flyover this year. An official military fly past wasn't originally on the agenda. Last year marked the final fly over from the 419 'Moose' Squadron, which underwent changes to its programming and th...
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British Columbia
Vancouver mayor speaks out after his home was targeted with graffiti on Halloween
VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim says his home was defaced with "hateful" graffiti on Halloween night. Sim says in a statement that he can't fully express the pain of seeing the words sprayed across his home, and it's absolutely heartbreaking that the vandalism has taken away a place where his family has f...
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Aggressive deer killed dog in family's yard in Oak Bay, B.C.
OAK BAY, B.C. - Police on Vancouver Island are warning residents after to protect their pets during mating season after a deer killed a dog while in the backyard of a home. Oak Bay police say an aggressive buck speared the dog with its antlers. The department's Sgt. Kevin Diachina says the dog might have spooked a larg...
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Interior Health fined after hospital workers exposed to illicit substance
PENTICTON, B.C. - British Columbia's Interior Health Authority has been fined nearly $275,000 after workers were exposed to an unknown substance at a hospital in Penticton. A notice posted online by WorkSafeBC, the province's worker protection agency, says the $274,073 fine imposed in August was the result of an incide...
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Court approves buffer zone ahead of expected protests at Vancouver Sikh temple
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between protesters and Indian consular officials. The Khalsa Diwan Society, which runs the Ross Street Gurdwara, says in court docu...
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Vancouver confirms CRAB Park temporary sheltering area will close next week
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver says the remaining seven residents of an encampment at a Downtown Eastside park have a week to pack up their belongings and leave, or they must remove their tents each day as the area returns to regular daytime use. A statement from the city says people may continue sheltering at CRAB ...
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B.C. port employers issue lockout notice in labour dispute with foremen union
VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice. The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it has issued a for...
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Canada
Court approves buffer zone ahead of expected protests at Vancouver Sikh temple
VANCOUVER - A B.C. Supreme Court judge has granted an order to establish a buffer zone around one of the province's largest Sikh temples this Saturday in advance of expected confrontations between protesters and Indian consular officials. The Khalsa Diwan Society, which runs the Ross Street Gurdwara, says in court docu...
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Alberta Appeal Court upholds sentence for Ontario trucker in Edmonton hotel killing
EDMONTON - Alberta's top court has dismissed a Crown appeal of the sentence handed to an Ontario truck driver convicted in the 2011 death of a woman found in an Edmonton hotel bathtub. Cindy Gladue, a 36-year-old Métis and Cree woman, bled to death in the tub in 2011. A jury found Bradley Barton not guilty in 20...
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Supreme Court sued over its refusal to translate decisions before 1970 into French
MONTREAL - A Quebec civil rights group is suing the office of the registrar of the Supreme Court of Canada because of the high court's refusal to translate its historic decisions into French. Droits collectifs Québec says it filed an application today in Federal Court after failing to get the office of the regis...
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Thieves speed off with bronze statue of Formula One racing legend Gilles Villeneuve
MONTREAL - A museum dedicated to revered Formula One driver Gilles Villeneuve is racing to find its stolen bronze statue of the Quebec speedster before it gets melted down for cash. Alain Bellehumeur, general manager of the Gilles Villeneuve Museum, says the 5 foot 3 inches tall statue was apparently sawed off at the a...
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Limit on preliminary inquiries doesn't apply to some ongoing cases: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a change to the law that limited the right of an accused person to a preliminary inquiry does not apply to some ongoing cases. The top court's ruling today helps clarify who is eligible for a preliminary inquiry - a judicial hearing to see if there is enough evidence for a tria...
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B.C. port employers issue lockout notice in labour dispute with foremen union
VANCOUVER - Ports in British Columbia are waking up to the possibility of another provincewide labour disruption as employers say they will lock out members of the union representing more than 700 foremen after it served a strike notice. The BC Maritime Employers Association says in a statement that it has issued a for...
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World
Delegates agree to establish Indigenous subsidiary body at COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia
CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...
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Delegates agree to establish Indigenous subsidiary body at COP16 biodiversity summit in Colombia
CALI, Colombia (AP) - Delegates came to an agreement late Friday at the United Nations conference on biodiversity to establish a subsidiary body that will include Indigenous peoples in future talks and decisions on nature conservation. The COP16 summit hosted in Cali, Colombia, was a follow-up to the historic 2022 acco...
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Jury convicts former Kentucky officer of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during deadly raid
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Kentucky police detective of using excessive force on Breonna Taylor during a botched 2020 drug raid that left her dead. The 12-member jury returned the late night verdict after clearing Brett Hankison earlier in the evening on a charge that he used exc...
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Supreme Court allows Pennsylvania to count contested provisional ballots, rejecting Republican plea
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an emergency appeal from Republicans that could have led to thousands of provisional ballots not being counted in Pennsylvania. The justices left in place a state Supreme Court ruling that elections officials must count provisional ballots cast by voters whose...
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South Carolina executes Richard Moore despite broadly supported plea to cut sentence to life
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - South Carolina put Richard Moore to death by lethal injection Friday for the 1999 fatal shooting of a convenience store clerk, despite a broad appeal for mercy by parties that included three jurors and the judge from his trial, a former prison director, pastors and the his family. Moore, 59, was p...
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US officials say video falsely depicting voter fraud in Georgia linked to 'Russian influence actors'
WASHINGTON (AP) - A video that purports to show election fraud in Georgia by a man who claims to be from Haiti is fake and the work of "Russian influence actors," U.S. intelligence officials said Friday. The video in question shows someone claiming to be a Haitian immigrant talking about how he's intending to...
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