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Prince George Mounties check 2,500 vehicles for drunk drivers
PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George RCMP members were busy Saturday on the kick-off event for the annual holiday check-stop season.Cst. Jennifer Cooper says in six hours, local Mounties conducted 2,500 vehi...
Dec 07, 2020
106 new cases of COVID-19 in Northern Health over the weekend; ban on social gatherings extended until Jan.8
VICTORIA - The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage in British Columbia.Over the past three days, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says there were 2,020 cases of the virus, including 106 in N...
Dec 07, 2020
Police testify at coroner's inquest into 2018 murder of Quebec toddler
QUEBEC - A coroner's inquest into the brutal 2018 murder of a two-year-old girl whose body was found dumped in a garbage can opened Monday with the testimony of the Quebec City police officers who inv...
Dec 07, 2020
Canada's Olympic, Paralympic swim trials will be invitation only
TORONTO - Canada's Olympic and Paralympic swim trials will be contracted to reduce the risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus. Canada's Olympic and Paralympic swim teams for this summer's Tokyo Games ...
Dec 07, 2020
Northern Ontario to use previous results to determine entries for nationals
The weekend did little to settle the uneasiness that executive director Bobby Ray was feeling after the Northern Ontario Curling Association cancelled its playdowns and announced it would invite last ...
Dec 07, 2020
Lions name head coach Rick Campbell, football operations director Neil McEvoy co-GMs
VANCOUVER - Rick Campbell's list of job duties grew once again on Monday as the B.C. Lions named the head coach and defensive coordinator a co-general manager. Campbell will share the role with the cl...
Dec 07, 2020
Edmonton Football Team GM Brock Sunderland receives contract extension
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Football Team has extended the contract of general manager and vice president of football operations Brock Sunderland through the 2023 season. The CFL team said Monday the exte...
Dec 07, 2020
Gary Oldman on finding the frequency of 'Mank'
NEW YORK - The first time Gary Oldman and David Fincher met was in London 1990, when Fincher was looking to cast him in "Alien 3." "And he had the sense to say no," Fincher recalls. In the 30 years si...
Dec 07, 2020
Finance and Audit settle on two percent
PRINCE GEORGE - Council's Finance and Audit Committee met today and launched the formal budget process for the City.It began with a report on citizen engagement for the budget, which saw significantly...
Dec 07, 2020
Bond weighs in on return of legislature for December sitting
VICTORIA - British Columbia's 87 MLAs are back to work this week participating in a rare December sitting of the legislature in Victoria. And there's just one major item on the agenda - to fulfill the...
Dec 07, 2020