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To Your Health
Is vitamin C good for a cold?
PRINCE GEORGE-Vitamin C is an antioxidant that helps with your bodies healing process, absorbing and storing iron, and is needed to form blood vessels cartilage, muscle and collagen. But, will it help you cure your cold? A local pharmacist says that if you're not suffering from scurvy the effects are minimal.Brett Chai...
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Trump Reactions
Northern B.C. politicians react to Trump's inauguration
PRINCE GEORGE - President Donald Trump was sworn in as the USA's 47th president during Monday's inauguration, prompting a wide variety of responses from politicians all across Canada. Here in Northern B.C., Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Taylor Bachrach is concerned about the impacts Trump could have on our country."...
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Collision
Fabricland employees trapped after transport truck damages front of building
PRINCE GEORGE - Fabricland says that their employees were briefly trapped inside after a semi-truck collided with their building around 11 a.m. Tuesday morning (Jan.21).Commercial Vehicle Safety and Enforcement say an accident on Highway 97 created a detour onto Austin Road. However according to Fabricland employees so...
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Tariffs are coming
PRINCE GEORGE - It was the moment a lot of Canadians were waiting for. The inauguration of President Donald Trump, amid threats of 25 per cent tariffs on all goods coming from Canada and Mexico. It didn't happen when Trump pushed his deadline to impose tariffs to February 1. "It is a significant threat," says...
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British Columbia
Snowboarding Jan. 6 rioter still in B.C. custody after Trump pardon
VANCOUVER - An American man recently found guilty of rioting at the U.S. Capitol four years ago remains in immigration custody in British Columbia, even after being given a presidential pardon for his actions. But the lawyer for 32-year-old Anthony Vo says his client plans to drop his asylum claim in Canada and he expe...
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Sleeping driver leads to drugs, guns being seized: Mounties say
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Police in Kamloops, B.C., say they seized guns and a "significant" amounts of drugs after finding a man sleeping inside a running vehicle at a restaurant parking lot. A statement from the RCMP says officers saw "numerous weapons" in plain view as they approached the truck Monday to ...
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'Targeted' shooting first homicide of the year in Delta, B.C.: police
DELTA, B.C. - A man has died after being shot in what Delta, B.C., police call a targeted attack. A statement from the Delta Police Department says officers are now treating the shooting of 29-year-old Delta resident Gurvinder Uppal as a homicide. Officers say they were called Monday to a shooting at a home in Delta wh...
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B.C. Premier David Eby asks Canadians to think carefully about spending money in U.S.
Premier David Eby says British Columbians should rethink trips to the United States and purchases of American products, as the province establishes a task force to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. He says the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports would be a "deliberate econom...
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Man charged with second-degree murder two years after Vancouver death
VANCOUVER - A suspect has been charged with second-degree murder more than two years after a man was killed in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A statement from Vancouver police says they were called on Jan. 17, 2023, to reports of a shooting inside the West Hotel rooming house. Officers found the body of 20-year-old Thu...
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Wolf transfer from B.C. to Colorado complete, but state wildlife staff 'threatened'
Colorado wildlife officials say the capture of 15 grey wolves in British Columbia and their release in the U.S. state is complete, an operation they say led to unspecified threats against staff. The operation that began in B.C. on Jan. 10 and wrapped up on Saturday follows Colorado voters' approval of a 2020 ballot ini...
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Canada
Snowboarding Jan. 6 rioter still in B.C. custody after Trump pardon
VANCOUVER - An American man recently found guilty of rioting at the U.S. Capitol four years ago remains in immigration custody in British Columbia, even after being given a presidential pardon for his actions. But the lawyer for 32-year-old Anthony Vo says his client plans to drop his asylum claim in Canada and he expe...
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Dragons' Den's Arlene Dickinson says Kevin O'Leary's ovations to Trump not helpful
MONTEBELLO, QUE. - One of Canada's "Dragons' Den" stars is breathing fire at a former co-star over Canada's approach to the Donald Trump White House. Arlene Dickinson, an investor who appears on the popular reality TV show, says former "Dragon" Kevin O'Leary's recent comments are not helpful as Pres...
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From immigration to intelligence: 5 ways Trump's executive orders could affect Canada
OTTAWA - While U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on Canada is alarming enough, other measures he announced Monday after his inauguration could have their own implications for Canada. Here are five Trump directives that could affect Canadians: Pressure to scrap Facebook tax Canada implemented a digi...
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B.C. Premier David Eby asks Canadians to think carefully about spending money in U.S.
Premier David Eby says British Columbians should rethink trips to the United States and purchases of American products, as the province establishes a task force to respond to U.S. President Donald Trump's threatened tariffs. He says the proposed 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian exports would be a "deliberate econom...
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Final report of foreign interference inquiry to be made public next Tuesday
OTTAWA - The final report of the federal inquiry into foreign interference is set for public release next Tuesday. The commission of inquiry's most recent public hearings looked at the ability of agencies and officials to identify and counter foreign meddling. The inquiry also held a series of policy roundtables to hel...
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Canadian doc says WHO headquarters 'stressed, devastated' as Trump orders U.S. exit
TORONTO - A Canadian global health specialist says staff at the World Health Organization are "devastated" by President Donald Trump's executive order to pull the U.S. out of the agency. Dr. Madhukar Pai, the Canada Research Chair in Epidemiology and Global Health, is at the WHO headquarters in Geneva this we...
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World
LA's Olympic venues spared by wildfires, but city's rebuild could impact Games' runup
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The devastation wrought by the deadly wildfires that ravaged sections of Los Angeles have left an indelible imprint on the region's landscape and psyche. The runup to the city hosting the 2028 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, in addition to World Cup matches in 2026 and a Super Bowl in '27, will coin...
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Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
NEW YORK (AP) - Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese player chosen for baseball's Hall of Fame, voted in Tuesday along with CC Sabathia and Billy Wagner. The trio will be inducted into the Hall at Cooperstown on July 27 along with Dave Parker and Dick Allen, voted in last month by the classic era committee. ___ AP M...
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Trump administration throws out policies limiting migrant arrests at sensitive spots like churches
WASHINGTON (AP) - Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen. The move announced Tuesday reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two k...
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US throws out policies limiting arrests of migrants at sensitive locations like schools, churches
WASHINGTON (AP) - Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen. The move reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two key federal immigra...
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Oath Keepers' Rhodes and Proud Boys' Tarrio released from prison after Trump Jan. 6 clemency
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol were wiped away by a sweeping order by President Donald Trum...
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Australian Open: Novak Djokovic beats Carlos Alcaraz and gets closer to a 25th Grand Slam title
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Novak Djokovic refused to let anything stop his pursuit of a record 25th Grand Slam trophy in the Australian Open quarterfinals. Not a problem with his left leg. Not an early deficit. And not the kid across the net, Carlos Alcaraz, who was making things difficult and eyeing his own bit of hi...
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