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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
Trial hears man shot at least nine times by Manitoba RCMP officer
THOMPSON, Man. - The manslaughter trial of an RCMP officer in northern Manitoba heard a man was shot at least nine times by the constable. Const. Abram Letkeman is on trial for the 2015 death of Steve...
Jun 19, 2019
Stay of proceedings after Jaspal Atwal accused of uttering threats
SURREY, B.C. - The BC Prosecution Service says it won't pursue a charge of uttering threats against the man who sparked a political firestorm when he attended an event during Prime Minister ...
Jun 19, 2019
Budget watchdog says cost to match one of Trump's business tax cuts is $37B
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog is putting new numbers to the cost of matching recent U.S. business-tax changes, pegging the price to the federal treasury at more than double government e...
Jun 19, 2019
'Forgive me, Lord:' Manslaughter trial hears recordings of Calgary grandfather
CALGARY - A trial for a man charged in the death of his grandson has heard recordings of what appear to be the accused praying for forgiveness. Allan Perdomo Lopez is charged with ...
Jun 19, 2019