Kamloops and Area

STANKOVEN Q AND A
Stankoven of Stars talks Avs, Oilers, Canucks, bumping slump, Stanky Leg
DALLAS, TEX. -- Dallas Stars' forward Logan Stankoven began the 2023-2024 season as a rookie in the American Hockey League. The 21-year-old forward from Kamloops is now preparing to compete in the NHL's Western Conference Final, with his Stars having vanquished the Colorado Avalanche in six games in Round 2 of the Stan...
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BEWARE INVASIVE PLANTS
Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society warns of poison hemlock, hoary cress
May is Invasive Species Action Month in B.C. The Columbia Shuswap Invasive Species Society is taking part, with a series of webinars throughout the month. Topics include how to support pollinators in gardens, impacts of invasive goldfish and prevention of whirling disease.A pair of invasive plants were recently priorit...
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HIGHWAY WEATHER ALERTS
Weather alerts in effect for several Interior mountain passes
KAMLOOPS -- Environment Canada is calling for snow on several Interior mountain passes, with a special weather statement in effect until Sunday (May 19) morning.Between two and five centimetres of the white stuff may fall on the Coquihalla Highway between Hope and Kamloops, Highway 3 from Hope to Princeton on the Allis...
May 18, 2024
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east kamloops business improvement association
'As just a single business, there's not much we can do'; Valleyview businesses eager for new BIA
KAMLOOPS- Tory Maltaise opened the Valleyview Bosley's store a year ago, and since then, he's seen a side of Valleyview he didn't expect. "When you're spending, you know, eight, ten, 12 hours in the same location every single day, your eyes get opened to more of what's happening in the immediate area," Maltai...
May 18, 2024
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British Columbia

Northern Rockies Regional Municipality says four homes lost in B.C. wildfire
FORT NELSON, B.C. - The Northern Rockies Regional Municipality in British Columbia says four homes have been lost in a wildfire that forced the evacuation of Fort Nelson more than a week ago. In an update posted late Saturday, the municipality says forecasted rain has provided "a window for progress," but pr...
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Economists to have a close eye on April inflation report as BoC rate decision nears
OTTAWA - Forecasters expect this week's inflation report to show Canada's inflation rate fell last month, but financial markets are still unsure whether a June interest rate cut is in the cards for the Bank of Canada. Statistics Canada is set to release its April consumer price index report Tuesday. The new inflation ...
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Doctors, patients want options to reduce dialysis waste adding to climate change
VANCOUVER - Francis Silva watches the blood flow through astraw-like tube in his left arm to a dialysis machine where it's cleaned of toxins and returned to his body through a second tube. The 60-year-old chef endures the four-hour process every Tuesday, Thursday and Sundayat St. Paul's Hospital where a 42-bed unit is ...
May 18, 2024
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President tells Gaza protesters that University of B.C. must remain neutral
VANCOUVER - The president of the University of British Columbia has told pro-Palestinian protesters that the school must remain neutral on the Gaza conflict. Benoit-Antoine Bacon says in response to demands by the organizers of a protest encampment on the Vancouver campus that professors and students hold a broad range...
May 17, 2024
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Crews fighting wildfires near Fort Nelson hope skies open up after rainy Thursday
FORT NELSON, B.C. - A rainy Thursday in and around Fort Nelson was exactly what fire crews were looking for. In a video released late Thursday night by the B.C. Wildfire Service, fire behaviour specialist for the Parker Lake and Patry Creek blazes Evan Peck said recent rain was much needed and made for excellent condit...
May 17, 2024
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Mother, stepfather get 15 years for manslaughter in death of B.C. boy Dontay Lucas, 6
PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - The mother and stepfather of six-year-old Dontay Lucas have been sentenced to 15 years each in prison by a B.C. Supreme Court judge. Mitchell Frank and Rykel Frank stood in shackles in a court in Port Alberni as they were sentenced for the death of the boy who was found in medical distress inside ...
May 17, 2024
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Canada

Federal byelection announced for June 24 in Toronto St. Paul's riding
TORONTO - The Prime Minister's Office has announced a federal byelection will be held in the Ontario riding of Toronto-St. Paul's on June 24 to fill the seat left vacant by longtime Liberal cabinet minister Carolyn Bennett. Bennett announced in December that she was retiring as an MP after 26 years in the House of Com...
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Ex-partner to face charges after 55-year-old woman killed in Montreal
MONTREAL - A 55-year-old woman is dead and her former partner is facing charges in what police say is Montreal's 13th homicide of the year. Police were called Saturday evening to an apartment in the Villeray-Saint-Michel-Parc-Extension borough, where they found the victim with fatal upper body wounds. Police spokesman ...
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In the fight for planetary health, how do we preserve our mental health?
TORONTO - It was early May and wildfire season had already started to rage in Western Canada when seven people settled into a monthly support-group meeting over Zoom. The facilitator, Toronto-based Kady Cowan, opened the conversation by prompting others to acknowledge any climate change-related concerns weighing on t...
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As Canada renews strategy for Rohingya crisis, advocates urge rethink
OTTAWA - As Canada's strategy for supporting Rohingya people expires, advocates are calling for a rethink of how Ottawa is trying to limit suffering in refugee camps in Bangladesh, and to rout the military junta overseeing ethnic violence in Myanmar. "We cannot turn away from this," said Bob Rae, Canada's amb...
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Canadian immigration asks medical worker fleeing Gaza if he treated Hamas fighters
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Lawyers are questioning Canada's approach to screening visa applications for people in Gaza with extended family in Canada after one applicant, a medical worker, was asked whether he had treated members of Hamas. The Canadian Press obtained a redacted letter sent to the applicant by a Canadian immigr...
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Montreal artists and venue owners support 24-hour party district - with reservations
MONTREAL - It's 2:55 a.m. on a recent evening at Blue Dog bar, in Montreal's Plateau district. A bell rings, the bartender shouts, "last call," and a handful of people wander to the bar for one more drink. Slight variations of this scene occur across the city every night, as bars and venues are prohibited - m...
May 18, 2024
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World

Biden tells Morehouse graduates that he hears their voices of protest over the war in Gaza
ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden on Sunday told the graduating class at Morehouse College that he heard their voices of protest over the Israel-Hamas war, and that scenes from the conflict in Gaza have been heartbreaking. "I support peaceful nonviolent protest," he told students, some who wore keffiyeh scar...
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Slovak prime minister's condition remains serious but prognosis positive after assassination bid
BANSKA BYSTRICA, Slovakia (AP) - Slovakia's populist prime minister, Robert Fico, remained in serious condition on Sunday but has been given a positive prognosis four days after he was shot multiple times in an assassination attempt that has sent shockwaves across the deeply polarized European Union nation, the defense...
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Helicopter carrying Iran's president suffers a 'hard landing,' state TV says without further details
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A helicopter carrying Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi suffered a "hard landing" on Sunday, Iranian state television reported, without immediately elaborating. Raisi was traveling in Iran's East Azerbaijan province. State TV said the incident happened near Jolfa, a city on th...
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Congolese army says it has foiled a coup. Self-exiled opposition leader threatens president
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Congo's army says it "foiled a coup" early Sunday morning and arrested the perpetrators, including several foreigners, following a shootout between armed men in military uniform and guards of a close ally of Congo's president that left three people dead in the capital, Kinshasa. At firs...
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Seize the Grey wins the Preakness, ends Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid
Seize the Grey went wire to wire to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, giving 88-year-old Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas a seventh victory in the race and ending Mystik Dan's Triple Crown bid. The grey colt took advantage of the muddy track just like Lukas hoped he would, pulling off the upset in a second conse...
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Giuliani becomes final defendant served indictment among 17 accused in Arizona fake electors case
Arizona's attorney general says former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has been served an indictment in the state's fake elector case alongside 17 other defendants for his role in an attempt to overturn former President Donald Trump's loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes posted the n...
May 18, 2024
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