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Uncompetitive nomination races weaken parties, democracy, study says
OTTAWA - The opaque path federal parties take to select candidates for elections was detailed in a report Wednesday that warned of profound consequences for Canadian democracy ...
Jul 18, 2019
Hernández, Gurriel lead Blue Jays to 10-4 win over Red Sox
BOSTON - Toronto pitcher Jacob Waguespack spent the day before his first major league start as a tourist in Fenway Park, signing his name inside the Green Monster and FaceTiming his high school coache...
Jul 18, 2019
54th Annual Rodeo welcomes pros for the first time
QUESNEL-The Quesnel Rodeo has been up and running for 54 years and Gus Cameron has been there, every step of the way.Cameron and his wife, Founders of the Quesnel Rodeo have both been a part of the cl...
Jul 18, 2019
Mitch Marner mum on contract talks with Maple Leafs at his charity event
VAUGHAN, Ont. - Mitch Marner's summer has already included wakesurfing tricks and throwing a big-time charity event. What's yet to materialize for the restricted free agent winger is a new c...
Jul 18, 2019
Trump to nominate Eugene Scalia for labour secretary
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will nominate lawyer Eugene Scalia, the son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be his new labour secretary. Trump tweet...
Jul 18, 2019
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens dies at 99
WASHINGTON - John Paul Stevens, the bow-tied, independent-thinking, Republican-nominated justice who unexpectedly emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal, died Tuesday in Fort Lauderdale, Flori...
Jul 18, 2019
B.C. posts $1.5B surplus as tax revenue increases and real estate market cools
VICTORIA - The British Columbia government ended its fiscal year with an operating surplus of $1.5 billion as the province collected more revenue from taxation and less money from a softening rea...
Jul 18, 2019
More bad news for forestry
PRINCE GEORGE - The embattled forest sector is taking another hit in this region."The Isle Pierre sawmill will be permanently reduced from two shifts to one shift effective September 20, 2019. The cap...
Jul 18, 2019 Canfor
Work on rock slide continues in B.C.'s Fraser River says federal government
CLINTON, B.C. - The federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans says work to clear a massive rock slide in British Columbia's Fraser River continues. A joint update from the B.C. governm...
Jul 18, 2019
REDRESS exhibit shares experiences faced by Indigenous people in Residential Schools
PRINCE GEORGE- Two Rivers Gallery spent the past year working on the REDRESS: Sacred Obligation exhibit. Different artists from across B.C., including the Prince George area, share some of the traumat...
Jul 18, 2019