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Finance ministers meet in Ottawa to confront Canada’s new economic reality
OTTAWA – Provincial and territorial finance ministers are scheduled to gather tonight in Ottawa with federal counterpart Bill Morneau to begin confronting the hard economic truths facing Canada and the new Liberal government.
Queen’s honours list recognized stage and screen stars along with Ebola fighters and others
LONDON – Queen Elizabeth II's New Year honours list makes knights and dames out of some of Britain's best loved stage and screen stars even as it recognizes the sacrifices of doctors who treated Ebola victims and the everyday heroism of those who spent time helping others.
Natalie Cole, Grammy winning singer and daughter of Nat ‘King’ Cole, has died
LOS ANGELES, Calif. – Natalie Cole, the daughter of jazz legend Nat King Cole, who carved out her own considerable success with R&B hits like "Our Love" and "This Will Be" before triumphantly intertwining their legacies to make his "Unforgettable" their signature hit through technological wizardry, has died. She was 65.
B.C. swing band leader Dal Richards dies, missing 80th consecutive New Year’s show
VANCOUVER – A man who helped Vancouverites bring in the New Year for decades died just minutes before the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
‘Game of Thrones’ author says he missed book deadline, so HBO series will eclipse story line
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Winter is not coming.
Motorcycle industry in Canada shifts gears as it copes with low loonie
TORONTO – Canada's motorcycle industry is facing headwinds from the low loonie as the sector gears up for an annual round of trade shows early in the new year.
Penticton firefighters douse car fire
PENTICTON - Firefighters were called to downtown Penticton this afternoon to put out a car fire. Fire crews arrived at the intersection of Wade Avenue and Martin Street at approximately 12:50 p.m., Dec. 28, to find a Honda Civic parked at the curb with smoke billowing from the hood and flame from the engine compartment....
UPDATE: Missing Kamloops teen found
Update: 8:48 a.m., Oct. 5, 2015 KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say Sydney Beckley, 17, who was reported missing on Sept. 25, has been located safe and sound. 2:49 p.m., Oct. 1, 2015 KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP is asking for the public’s help to locate a teen missing since last week. Sydney Beckley, 17, was reported...
News of balanced budget buoys Harper as economy takes election centre stage
OTTAWA - Hard new numbers about the past performance of Canada's economy gave way to crystal ball-gazing Monday on the campaign trail as the major party leaders all took a shot at forecasting the future. For Stephen Harper, weeks of buffeting bad news was washed away by a report tallying the final budget bottom line...
Water quality advisory for Killiney Beach and Westshore Estates
CENTRAL OKANAGAN - The Regional District of Central Okanagan has issued a precautionary Water Quality Advisory for residents served by the Killiney Beach and Westshore water systems in the Central Okanagan West Electoral Area. The advisory affects properties connected to the two separate community water systems servicing these subdivisions off Westside Road. As a result...
UPDATE: Kelowna teen located
KELOWNA - UPDATE: Tyler Leski has returned home safe. Kelowna RCMP need help finding Tyler "Marshall" Leskie, last seen in Ben Lee Park Saturday evening, July 4. Leskie, 17, didn't return home Saturday, says Staff Sgt. John Jordan. He has several medical issues which "are concerning given his absence." Leskie is described as Caucasian, 5'7",...
Attackers in Quebec, Ottawa might not have been acting alone, Harper suggests
OTTAWA - Stephen Harper says the two men with jihadist sympathies who launched separate attacks in Quebec and on Parliament Hill might not have been acting in isolation. In a year-end interview, the prime minister tells the news network TVA that although Michael Zehaf Bibeau and Martin Couture-Rouleau were each alone at the time of...
Suspect in deadly Moncton RCMP shootings found fit to stand trial
MONCTON, N.B. - A New Brunswick man charged with fatally shooting three RCMP officers and wounding two others last month in Moncton has been found fit to stand trial. Justin Bourque, who faces three charges of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder, underwent a psychiatric assessment that concluded Bourque is competent and mentally...
Avalanche victim in B.C. identified as 28-year-old Alberta man
PRINCE GEORGE - The B.C. Coroner’s office has released the name of a man who died in an avalanche last Saturday in eastern B.C. He is identified as 28-year-old Kym Alvin Avery Wilson of Warburg, a small community near Leduc in central Alberta. The coroner’s office says Wilson was in a group of five people...