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B.C. sees record-breaking 617 new COVID-19 cases
PRINCE GEORGE - Dr. Bonnie Henry and Health Minister Adrian Dix have released the latest COVID-19 numbers in a joint statement. There have been 617 new COVID-19 cases, province-wide, since yesterday.C...
Nov 13, 2020
B.C. Liberals set some guideposts to renew party after losing ground in B.C. election
VANCOUVER - The executive of the B.C. Liberal Party has met to set a road map for "rebuilding and renewal" after the party lost more than a dozen seats in the provincial election. A statement fr...
Nov 13, 2020
Federal fisheries minister concerned about size of Mi'kmaq fishery in Cape Breton bay
HALIFAX - The federal fisheries minister is raising concerns about the health of the lobster stock in Cape Breton in connection with an Indigenous self-regulated fishery underway in St. Peters Bay. Be...
Nov 13, 2020
Labour minister hails progress on pay equity but says it will take time to deliver
OTTAWA - The government is proposing to give federally regulated companies at least three years to develop plans to give their female employees equal pay for work of equal value. Companies that face a...
Nov 13, 2020
New VP, Finance at UNBC
PRINCE GEORGE - There's a new face heading up UNBC's Finance Department. Rahim Somani began his role at the Vice President of Finance on November 2nd. Prior to here, Somani spent 12 years at the Unive...
Nov 13, 2020
Local baker en route to world's greatest baker
PRINCE GEORGE - The sound of the whirling Kitchen Aid is a familiar one in Chelan Howard-Gibbon's house. "I've been baking since I was little. With my Grandma," she explains, with her Grandmother livi...
Nov 13, 2020
Wall Street shrugs, stocks rise even as Trump won't concede
NEW YORK - A huge fear for Wall Street coming into this month was a contested U.S. presidential election, one that could drag the market through more painful uncertainty. Now, more than a week after E...
Nov 13, 2020
In Georgia, Trump's shadow looms over pair of Senate runoffs
ATLANTA - President Donald Trump won't be on the ballot in January when Georgia voters settle two Senate runoffs that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. But both Republicans and Democrats are ...
Nov 13, 2020
As virus cases surge, elected officials resist restrictions
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - With the coronavirus coming back with a vengeance across the country and the U.S. facing a long, dark winter, many governors and other elected officials are showing little appetite ...
Nov 13, 2020
Multiple Grey Cup champion linebacker Mark Kosmos passes away at the age of 75
OTTAWA - Former linebacker Mark Kosmos, who won four Grey Cup titles with three separate teams over eight CFL seasons, has died. He was 75.An obiturary published in the Ottawa Citizen said he Kosmos d...
Nov 13, 2020