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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.
Feds redo child-benefit forms amid concerns ‘at-risk’ families missing payments
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Stop CBSA policy requiring bulletproof vests in immigrant detention: advocates
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Iran’s seizure of UK tanker in Gulf seen as escalation
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B.C. man pleads guilty in the snake venom death of a two-year-old girl
VANCOUVER – A British Columbia man has pleaded guilty to one count of failing to…
SUZUKI: Climate protection is not a partisan issue
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Australian man, U.S. woman killed in double homicide in northeastern B.C: RCMP
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Trudeau says Ottawa open to proposals for B.C. refinery as gas prices soar
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Lyme-spreading ticks so common thanks to mild winters, some places stop testing
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Chiefs honour Indigenous leader wrongfully hanged in B.C. 154 years ago
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iN VIDEO: American warship destroys Iranian drone in Strait of Hormuz
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$900-million deal reached in class actions on sexual misconduct in military
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TRENDING NOW: Man caught operating airline TV with feet
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CLINTON, B.C. – The co-ordinated effort to save hundreds of thousands of salmon hampered by…
Gas price inquiry questions Trans Mountain capacity, company denies collusion
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‘There were a lot of tears’: Patients’ deaths put spotlight on bedsores
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UPDATE: Missing Kelowna man located
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Lower gas prices slow annual inflation rate to Bank of Canada’s 2% bull’s-eye
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U.S. firm fined $2.9M for fuel spill that soiled B.C. First Nation territory
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