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CHRT ruling on Jordan's Principle "another win for our children": Mary Teegee
PRINCE GEORGE - Indigenous children will have better access to services thanks to a new ruling by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal. Previously, First Nations youth were only eligible for services un...
Dec 01, 2020
Feds spending plan heads to confidence vote as provinces seek more health-care cash
OTTAWA - Canada's most populous province says the federal Liberal government missed an opportunity in its new spending plan to signal more help for health-care systems, setting up a potential showdown...
Dec 01, 2020
QMJHL weighing two scenarios at it plans for a return to play in January
MONTREAL - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has a plan A and a plan B to resume its season in mid-January, and its commissioner said Tuesday that cancelling its schedule isn't an option. On Monda...
Dec 01, 2020
Curbside glass recycle starts
PRINCE GEORGE - Starting today glass bottles and jars can be recycled at curbside in grey glass boxes in the City of Prince George.A few weeks ago each household in the City received a new grey box fo...
Dec 01, 2020
Missing Prince George woman located
PRINCE GEORGE - A missing Prince George woman has been located and is safe. Twenty-seven year-old Denise Mortimer hadn't been seen in over two months. Police would like to thank the public for their h...
Dec 01, 2020
Barr: No evidence of fraud that’d change election outcome
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr said Tuesday the Justice Department has not uncovered evidence of widespread voter fraud that would change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. His...
Dec 01, 2020
Mr. PG sports a new look
PRINCE GEORGE - Mr. PG often sports a new look and he is again. This time it's a giant multi-coloured scarf. It was knitted by the same group of ladies who pulled together hundreds of smaller scarves ...
Dec 01, 2020
Ontario Human Rights Commission to look at anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosse
The Ontario Human Rights Commission says it plans to address the issue of anti-Indigenous racism in lacrosse. The commission announced on Tuesday that it will meet with Six Nations of the Grand River ...
Dec 01, 2020
Military identifies remains of Newfoundland soldier killed in Belgium in 1917
OTTAWA - The Canadian military says it has identified the remains of a young soldier from Newfoundland who died on a First World War battlefield in Belgium in 1917. The remains of Pte. John Lambert of...
Dec 01, 2020
CP NewsAlert: Probe finds arrest of Nunavut man knocked down by truck door was lawful
IQALUIT, Nunavut - An investigation by the Ottawa Police Service has determined that the arrest of a Nunavut man who appeared to have been knocked down by an RCMP truck door was lawful. A video posted...
Dec 01, 2020