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Homophobia study shows perception, reality "disconnect"
Researchers say a survey of players in the Australian Ice Hockey League shows homophobic language is often used but that an even higher percentage of competitors would make a gay player feel welcome. ...
Jun 19, 2019
CP NewsAlert Vancouver Canucks centre Elias Pettersson captures Calder Trophy
LAS VEGAS - Vancouver Canucks centre Elias Pettersson has won the Calder Trophy at the NHL's top rookie at the league's award ceremony. The 20-year-old Swede is the first Canuck to win the award since...
Jun 19, 2019
5 things you need to know: Wednesday, June 19
Two UNBC students receive scholarshipsChristiana Onabola and Hooi Xian Lee-two international students from UNBC were both the recipients of a collective $23,000 for the PEO's International Peace Schol...
Jun 19, 2019
Meals on Wheels looking for volunteers to help deliver food to elderly
PRINCE GEORGE-Meals on Wheels, a volunteer run program that helps deliver fresh meals to the elderly is "desperate" for volunteers.Currently the program provides meals to around 80 clients, delivering...
Jun 19, 2019 Courtesy of the Prince George Council of Seniors (via website)
Two UNBC students receive scholarships
PRINCE GEORGE - Two international students attending UNBC have received, collectively, over $23,000 in scholarship funding for a group not often heard of.The Philanthropic Education Organization inclu...
Jun 19, 2019 PEO Reciplients
Northern Health has a new recruitment plan
PRINCE GEORGE - Northern Health has released its latest recruitment and retention plan, which identifies seven disciplines that will merit special attention. They are: Register Nurses. Licence Practic...
Jun 19, 2019 Nurse
Feds hatch national strategy on dementia
PRINCE GEORGE - The federal government has released a first ever national strategy on dementia.More than 419,000 Canadian seniors have been diagnosed with some form of dementia, with nearly 80,000 Can...
Jun 19, 2019 Ian Allenden | Dreamstime.com
A bigger than "King Kong" sized monopoly man was blown up in town
PRINCE GEORGE-Bigger than King Kong is right. This 30 foot balloon was blown up in the parking lot behind Studio 2880 on 15th street by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTP).Barron von FenderBender ...
Jun 19, 2019
UN high commissioner urges redress as Canada responds to MMIWG inquiry
OTTAWA - Canada's response to the conclusions of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls should include some form of redress for the victims and their families, says the Unite...
Jun 19, 2019
Man who stole human skull and kept it as 'curiosity' sentenced to jail
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A young Newfoundland man who robbed a human skull from a cemetery and kept it in his possession for more than a year as a "curiosity item" has been sentenced to four months in&...
Jun 19, 2019