Blind Curling
Western Blind Curling Championship kicks off in Prince George for the first time
PRINCE GEORGE- On Thursday morning (Mar. 20), the Prince George Golf and Curling Club welcomed visually impaired curlers from all over Western Canada, as they opened this years Western Blind Curling Championship with an opening ceremony."The Westerns come from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. and there are...
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Recreation
City seeking feedback on public skating programs
PRINCE GEORGE - If you'd like to provide feedback to the City of Prince George regarding its public skating programs, now is your chance.The City has launched a new online survey with a goal of trying to understand how satisfied customers are with current programs and to find out how it can improve them. The City says ...
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Welcome Home: What you need to know about downsizing
Introducing Welcome Home, a brand-new series on CKPG Today featuring Kristine Newell from Team Powerhouse Realty here in Prince George. In this edition learn all about what you need to think about when downsizing you or members of your family, and hear about exciting options at the Prince George Chateau! Sign up for se...
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Learn about the City of PG's Spring 2025 Community Association Recreation Guide
Looking for active and affordable opportunities for you and your kids? Look no further than the Spring 2025 Prince George Community Association Recreation Guide, from indoor and outdoor pickleball, T-ball, and soccer to canoeing, martial arts, and more, this season's guide is packed with opportunities to stay active, c...
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Western Blind Curling Championship kicks off in Prince George for the first time
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"Government doesn't want us:" Prince George couple leaving Canada after years of being denied permanent residency
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Blind Curling
Western Blind Curling Championship kicks off in Prince George for the first time
PRINCE GEORGE- On Thursday morning (Mar. 20), the Prince George Golf and Curling Club welcomed visually impaired curlers from all over Western Canada, as they opened this years Western Blind Curling Championship with an opening ceremony."The Westerns come from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. and there are...
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Recreation
City seeking feedback on public skating programs
PRINCE GEORGE - If you'd like to provide feedback to the City of Prince George regarding its public skating programs, now is your chance.The City has launched a new online survey with a goal of trying to understand how satisfied customers are with current programs and to find out how it can improve them. The City says ...
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Public will have more opportunity to comment on OCP
PRINCE GEORGE -The word of the public hearing over the City's proposed Official Community Plan was "greenspace."It was standing room only in Council Chambers as one-by-one, members of the public presented to Council and the overall theme was encouraging Council to preserve green spaces in the community, such ...
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Immigration
"Government doesn't want us:" Prince George couple leaving Canada after years of being denied permanent residency
PRINCE GEORGE - Four years ago, Jenny Passaris and Petrus Rheeder arrived to Canada with the hopes of making it their long term home and establish some roots in Prince George. However, after years of trying to acquire permanent residency (PR) and going through many layers of governmental red tape, they find themselves ...
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Northern BC
Healthcare
Burns Lake ER reopens
BURNS LAKE - The Emergency Department at the Burns Lake Hospital is running at normal again after being closed overnight.Northern Health says that Emergency Department services were unavailable between 11 p.m. Tuesday and 8 a.m. Wednesday due to staffing challenges. Emergency department services at the Lakes District h...
Mar 19, 2025
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Scam Calls
Northern Health warning of scam calls that offer prizes
PRINCE GEORGE - Northern Health is warning people to be careful of scam calls that claim to offer prizes like a fire safety basket or a free home inspections. In a social media post, the health authority says it has become aware of "several" such instances, and that these calls are "in no way affiliated&...
Mar 16, 2025
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Firefighter Funding
Several Prince George, Cariboo volunteer fire departments getting provincial funding
PRINCE GEORGE - A number of Prince George and other Northern B.C. fire departments will be getting provincial funding that the B.C. Government says will help them better prepare and respond to emergencies.The B.C. Emergency Management Ministry says more than 230 fire departments that are wholly or partially staffed by ...
Mar 15, 2025
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Vanderhoof Threats
"Absolute Disgust:" Vanderhoof speaks out following targeted threats to elementary school
PRINCE GEORGE - Several community leaders in Vanderhoof, including Mayor Kevin Moutray, are speaking out regarding threatening messages targeting Evelyn Dickson Elementary School."(My reaction is) absolute disgust. No matter what you think of provincial policy, there's no excuse for putting either school workers o...
Mar 15, 2025
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Cariboo Region
IIO investigates
IIO investigating January 2024 Quesnel incident
QUESNEL - The Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) is investigating an incident in Quesnel where one person sustained a serious injury while being taken into custody by members of the RCMP on January 6, 2024.According to the IIO, officers initially responded to a call about a person experiencing a mental healt...
Mar 19, 2025
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IIO investigates
IIO investigating injuries of one person while in RCMP custody in Quesnel
QUESNEL - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating an incident in Quesnel where a person was injured in an RCMP detachment cell.The Independent Investigations Office (IIO) says information provided by the affected person states that at about 2:30 p.m. on September 8, 2024, police responded to a call concerne...
Mar 12, 2025
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Armed Robbery
Quesnel RCMP looking for suspect after armed robbery at Circle K store
QUESNEL, B.C. - RCMP in Quesnel are asking for help in identifying a suspect after an early morning robbery at a Circle K convenience store, and they're looking to speak to an man who may have witnessed the entire incident.Police say they were called around 5:00 a.m. Friday (March 7) and told that a gunman had robbed t...
Mar 08, 2025
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Politics
Quesnel mayor wins court case
QUESNEL - The mayor of Quesnel, Ron Paull, has won his court case against the City of Quesnel related to censure and sanctions levelled against him last year.City Council censured him after it learned Paull had taken a book that downplayed the devastating impacts of residential schools to a Cariboo Regional District bo...
Mar 06, 2025
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Sports
Blind Curling
Western Blind Curling Championship kicks off in Prince George for the first time
PRINCE GEORGE- On Thursday morning (Mar. 20), the Prince George Golf and Curling Club welcomed visually impaired curlers from all over Western Canada, as they opened this years Western Blind Curling Championship with an opening ceremony."The Westerns come from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and B.C. and there are...
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Cougars
Cougars look ahead to massive final weekend of regular season
PRINCE GEORGE- The Prince George Cougars have just two games remaining in the regular season but still have plenty to play for before the playoffs. This weekend they host the Royals who the Cats are tied with atop the B.C. Division, but Victoria have a game in hand."We've been going at it with Victoria all year. T...
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Northern Capitals
Northern Capitals to battle for first provincial title since 2016
PRINCE GEORGE- The Northern Capitals are headed to the provincial finals this weekend after an impressive showing in their semi final match up against the Fraser Valley Rush. Despite dropping the final three games against the Rush in the regular season, the Caps swept them this past weekend on their home ice in Langley...
Mar 18, 2025
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Canada
Liberals vow to cut GST for first-time homebuyers purchasing homes for $1M or less
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will scrap the GST for first-time homebuyers who purchase a home with a sale price at or below $1 million. Carney promised the measure during his leadership campaign and it also matches a similar promise made by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre last fall. Carn...
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Poll suggests Canadians are growing more alarmed by U.S. tariffs and aggression
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians are feeling increasingly alarmed by U.S. tariffs, President Donald Trump and American economic aggression. The Leger poll, which sampled more than 1,500 Canadian adults from March 14 to March 16, suggests 41 per cent of respondents see those three factors as the most pressing thre...
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Ottawa lands Chignecto Isthmus deal with Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
HALIFAX - The federal government will join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in spending a total of $650 million on protecting the Chignecto Isthmus, the narrow strip of flood-prone land that links the two Maritime provinces. Ottawa announced Thursday it will contribute $325 million to the project, while the two provinces ...
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Ex-PM Stephen Harper says he's perplexed, heartbroken by Canada-India tensions
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper told a conference in India last month that he doesn't "entirely understand" why Canada has such a poor relationship with India, and suggested the Liberal party has become infiltrated by Sikh activists who want to carve a separate state out of India. "Frankly,...
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Trade war windfall for B.C. food bank - hundreds of kilograms of unsold U.S. produce
The trend toward buying Canadian has created a silver lining for a food bank in Nanaimo, B.C., which has been flooded with hundreds of kilograms of American produce. Peter Sinclair, executive director of Loaves & Fishes Community Food Bank, says a food recovery program allows them to accept surplus or unsold items ...
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Ex-student activist Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, with Québec solidaire, to leave politics
MONTREAL - Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, co-spokesperson of the left-wing Québec solidaire party who rose to prominence during the 2012 student strike, says he is stepping down from the party's leadership team. He resigned today as co-spokesperson and House leader, and says he will stay on as a member of the legislatur...
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World
Jury convicts 2 men of plotting to assassinate an Iranian American journalist in New York
NEW YORK (AP) - A jury has convicted two men of plotting to assassinate Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad at her home in New York City in a murder-for-hire scheme that prosecutors said was financed by the Iranian government. The verdict was returned at a federal court in New York on Thursday, ending a two-week...
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Georgetown scholar detained over American wife's Palestinian ties, lawyer says
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) - A federal judge on Thursday ordered immigration officials not to deport a Georgetown scholar that the government detained until the court has had a chance to rule. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered that Badar Khan Suri "shall not be removed from the...
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Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that's been a longtime target of conservatives. Trump has derided the Education Department as wasteful and polluted by liberal id...
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