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Paper Excellence announces curtailment of Mackenzie Pulp
MACKENZIE - Another blow for the forestry sector as Paper Excellence has announced the curtailment of operations at its pulp mill in Mackenzie.In a news release the company says it's targeting the cur...
Jun 11, 2020

Trudeau expresses confidence in RCMP commissioner amid racism debate
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expressing confidence in RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki after the top Mountie said she is struggling with the definition of systemic racism. Lucki made the co...
Jun 11, 2020

Historian Charles King wins Francis Parkman Prize
NEW YORK - Charles King's "Gods of the Upper Air," a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award....
Jun 11, 2020

Study shows vessels not complying with right whale protections in Cabot Strait
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Early analysis of vessel speeds in the Cabot Strait shows that almost two-thirds are not complying with a voluntary slowdown meant to protect endangered right whales that migra...
Jun 11, 2020

Funeral service today for young Indigenous woman shot by Edmundston police
EDMUNDSTON, N.B. - A funeral service is being held today for Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman who was killed by police in Edmundston, N.B., last week. The private service is being held in...
Jun 11, 2020

Trump OKs sanctions against international tribunal employees
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lobbed a broadside attack Thursday against the International Criminal Court by authorizing economic sanctions and travel restrictions against court workers directly...
Jun 11, 2020

Canada participation rates of girls in sport still lag behind boys
TORONTO - MacLennan said she was fortunate to grow up in an active family. She was encouraged to try a variety of sports. "So from a young age, building out those fundamental skills, but also exposing...
Jun 11, 2020

Vanderhoof businesses come together to celebrate Nechako Valley Students graduation
VANDERHOOF-Graduations are memorable, and this year even more so, as students across the province graduate amidst a pandemic.In Vanderhoof, a group of parents has asked businesses in the district muni...
Jun 11, 2020

Blue Jays take Vanderbilt shortstop Austin Martin with No. 5 pick
TORONTO - Taking utilityman Austin Martin was a no-brainer for the Toronto Blue Jays scouting staff. The Blue Jays used their top pick to select the Vanderbilt University product at the Majo...
Jun 10, 2020

BC Nurses Union hopes free parking at hospitals will continue past pandemic
PRINCE GEORGE - The temporary suspension of parking enforcement of certain locations around Prince George will be lifted next week as the City continues to move along with Phase Two of BC's Restart Pl...
Jun 10, 2020