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Sonia Furstenau wins B.C. Green leadership
VICTORA-The B.C. Green Party has announced their newest leader.Sonia Furstenau has won the party's Leadership 2020 contest, succeeding interim leader Adam Olsen. Furstenau won 52.4 per cent of the vot...
Sep 14, 2020
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime suffers first-round loss at Italian Open
ROME - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime lost 6-4, 7-5 to Serbia's Filip Krajinovic in the first round of the ATP Tour's Italian Open on Monday. Auger-Aliassime, the No. 16 seed and world No. 20, won jus...
Sep 14, 2020
B.C. announces early lung cancer screening program touted as first in Canada
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has announced a new lung cancer screening program it says is the first of its kind in Canada aimed at early diagnosis of the deadliest form of the disease. ...
Sep 14, 2020
B.C. announces early lung cancer screening program touted as first in Canada
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government has announced a new lung cancer screening program it says is the first of its kind in Canada aimed at early diagnosis of the deadliest form of the disease. ...
Sep 14, 2020
South Carolina's lieutenant governor contracts COVID-19
COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolina Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday, but is recovering in isolation with her family at home, officials said. Evette had a sore throat and heada...
Sep 14, 2020
UNBC women's basketball team begins Fall Jr. Timberwolves camps
Despite the uncertainty of the UNBC Timberwolves basketball season, the women's team is still offering their junior Timberwolves programs to girls in grades 8-12.The first day of the fall session took...
Sep 14, 2020
Carrier Sekani Tribal Council ditches 'western-centric' library organizational system
PRINCE GEORGE-A local organization is ditching a "western-centric" organizational structure used in libraries world-wide for a new one that will take Indigenous issues into account.Carrier Sekani Trib...
Sep 14, 2020
Prince George radio host loses battle with cancer
PRINCE GEORGE - Long-time Prince George radio personality Dave Ross lost his battle with lung cancer over the weekend.Raised in Prince George, Ross was known on air as Mike Austin, and he first starte...
Sep 14, 2020
Canada's Henderson withdraws from Portland Classic due to poor air quality
PORTLAND, Ore. - Canada's Brooke Henderson withdrew from the LPGA Tour's Cambia Portland Classic on Monday due to poor air quality. Henderson told The Canadian Press that she was withdrawing shortly a...
Sep 14, 2020
Quebec Student Sports Federation cancels fall university sports due to COVID-19
MONTREAL - The Quebec Student Sports Federation has cancelled university sports for the fall semester due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Universities are permitted activities with another school in cross-c...
Sep 14, 2020