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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.
Canadian malls gathered facial images of five million shoppers without consent: privacy watchdogs
OTTAWA – Images of five million peoples' faces were collected through information kiosks in 12…
Health Canada expands hand sanitizer recall; suspends manufacturer’s licence
Health Canada has suspended the licence of a Mississauga manufacturer of hand sanitizer and issued…
UPDATE: RCMP locate missing Kelowna man
UPDATE: 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 RCMP say a 41-year-old man reported missing yesterday,…
Tupperware is partying like it’s 1965
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Tupperware relied on social gatherings for explosive growth in the mid…
Not cool: Jamaican bobsledder wants thief to return nose cone stolen from Calgary bar
An original member of the Jamaican bobsled team featured in the 1993 movie "Cool Runnings"…
UPDATE: COVID-19 economic recovery not likely until 2022: Bank of Canada
OTTAWA – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland laid out how federal spending might be reshaped along…
TRENDING NOW: Tenacious D and friends get their ‘Time Warp’ on
This is the cover that needed to be made. Jack Black and Kyle Gass' long-running…
‘Shockingly poor behaviour’ by parents upset with COVID-19 rules force B.C. youth soccer club to hire security
CHILLIWACK, B.C. – A youth soccer club in Chilliwack, B.C., has hired a security firm…
iN PHOTOS: Wickedly creative pandemic trick-or-treating
CINCINNATI – Dropping candy down a chute for little costumed Baby Sharks, Mulans and Black…
New poll suggests most Canadians don’t want federal election until at least 2022
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests most Canadians don't want a federal election during the…
iN PHOTOS: Halloween in 2020: Some fun with death and fear, anyone?
PORTERSVILLE, Pa. – The setting: a rolling patch of Pennsylvania farmland, about 15 miles from…
Female Utah football star sues for schools to offer girls’ teams
SALT LAKE CITY – Sam Gordon's staggering football skills made her famous at age 9.…
NXIVM guru gets 120 years in prison in sex-slaves case
NEW YORK – Disgraced self-improvement guru Keith Raniere, whose NXIVM followers included millionaires and Hollywood…
Trudeau says pandemic ‘really sucks,’ and that Christmas gatherings are up in the air
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the global COVID-19 pandemic "really sucks," and could…
Moon holds more water in more places than ever thought
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The moon’s shadowed, frigid nooks and crannies may hold frozen water…
Zeta becomes a hurricane as it nears Yucatan, heading for US
CANCUN, Mexico – Zeta strengthened to a hurricane Monday afternoon as it continued on a…
iN VIDEO: 70,000 in Southern California to evacuate after blaze grows
LOS ANGELES – A fast-moving wildfire forced evacuation orders for 70,000 people and seriously injured…
Liberals face probe into pandemic response after losing House vote
OTTAWA – Opposition parties won their bid Monday to launch a probe of the Liberals'…
7 vehicle chain reaction crash in Salmon Arm sends one to hospital
A snow covered icy road on a hill was behind a seven-vehicle chain reaction crash…
Driver killed on slippery Trans-Canada near Salmon Arm
The driver of a van who lost control on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Salmon…
TRENDING NOW: The ‘Cha Cha Slide’ bringing joy to those voting in US election
A video posted to Twitter on the weekend of voters in Philadelphia dancing in unison…
B.C.’s police watchdog investigating after attempted North Okanagan traffic stop turns into deadly crash
ARMSTRONG – A man is dead and a woman is hurt after their vehicle crashed…
iN PHOTOS: Washington state discovers first ‘murder hornet’ nest in US
SPOKANE, Wash. – Scientists in Washington state have discovered the first nest of so-called murder…
Seth Rogen on fighting cannabis stigma and why pot should be as accepted as beer
TORONTO – When actor Seth Rogen was growing up and smoking cannabis in Vancouver, he…