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Howard Alexander
Assistant Editor Howard Alexander comes to iNFOnews.ca from the broadcasting side of the media business.
Howard has been a reporter, news anchor, talk show host and news director, first in Saskatchewan and then the Okanagan.
He moved his family to Vernon in the 90s and is proud to call the Okanagan home.
If you have an event to share contact Howard at 250-309-5343or email halexander@infonews.ca.
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Scientists use DNA to identify bones, find descendants of Franklin expedition sailor
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Wildfire smoke causing glaciers to melt faster in Canadian Rockies
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Caddies and paper bags: Schools figuring out new world of cellphone bans
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‘Not impossible’: Facebook whistleblower Haugen talks protecting kids on social media
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Anishinaabe elder uses online video to pass along love of language to children
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British climate activists sentenced for throwing tomato soup over Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’
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Canadian legend Christine Sinclair announces retirement from professional soccer
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What it takes to get heat pumps into BC apartment buildings
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People with diabetes in lower-income areas at higher risk for amputations: report
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Lytton wildfire sparked an ongoing food crisis in the region
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Driver high on cannabis nabbed by North Okanagan RCMP
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‘Big Sam’: Paleontologists unearth giant skull of Pachyrhinosaurus in Alberta
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