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Canada's Bennedict Mathurin has had long, interesting road to NCAA stardom
Bennedict Mathurin has led the way for a resurgent University of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team that is ready to hit the dance floor at the 2022 NCAA Tournament. The 19-year-old sophomore guar...
Mar 16, 2022
Vernon is home to two milestones in combating B.C.'s overdose crisis
Two major steps to reduce the number of British Columbians dying from toxic drugs have gotten their starts in Vernon.The opioid agonist treatment (OAT) program rolled out in B.C. on March 16, 2021, an...
Mar 16, 2022
Olympic champion women's soccer squad bringing celebration tour to West Coast
VANCOUVER - Canada Soccer has announced that the country's gold medal-winning women's soccer team will face Nigeria in a pair of games in British Columbia next month. The two-match series is part of t...
Mar 16, 2022
Canada cheers U.S. effort to abolish 'spring forward, fall back' daylight time ritual
WASHINGTON - A giddy Massachusetts senator, clapping his hands and dancing with delight in the shadow of a sun-drenched U.S. Capitol, isn't something one sees every day. But doing away with the annoyi...
Mar 16, 2022
Vaccinated travellers will no longer need a COVID-19 test to come to Canada: source
OTTAWA - Vaccinated travellers will no longer require a negative COVID-19 test to come to Canada as of April 1, according to a source in the federal government. The source, who is not authorized to sp...
Mar 16, 2022
Liberal government extends amnesty on 'assault-style' firearms until 2023
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is extending its amnesty on "assault-style" firearms until October 2023. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced in May 2020 he was banning more than 1,500 mode...
Mar 16, 2022
West Ham defender Zouma to be prosecuted for animal abuse
LONDON (AP) - West Ham defender Kurt Zouma is being prosecuted by an animal charity for kicking and slapping his cat in abuse caught on video. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal...
Mar 16, 2022
Russia-Ukraine war: Key things to know about the conflict
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invoked Pearl Harbor and 9/11 during a rare and urgent appeal Wednesday to the U.S. Congress for more weapons to stem the Russian assault, even as he projected ...
Mar 16, 2022
Traffic stop following failure to signal leads to significant crash on Terminal Ave.
NANAIMO - Local Mounties are searching for a man, believed to be the driver of a vehicle which plowed into a local supportive housing complex.A Nanaimo RCMP officer began to initiate a traffic stop ju...
Mar 16, 2022
Tire residue chemical in rain runoff kills fish in urban streams, research finds
A new Canadian study is adding to a growing body of research that shows residue from vehicle tires contains a chemical highly toxic to several important species of fish. In a newly published paper, Un...
Mar 16, 2022