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Personal info of 15,000 people accessed from B.C. government site and databases
VICTORIA – The B.C. government is trying to notify about 15,000 people whose personal information has been illegally accessed because of a data breach on a Ministry of Forests' website and associated databases.
NDP proposes $15-a-day child care, with million new spaces, long-term financing
OTTAWA – An NDP government would spend $5 billion a year to create a million daycare spaces that parents could access for no more than $15 a day, Tom Mulcair promised Tuesday.
Province appeals teachers’ victory, points fingers at union’s refusal to budge
VANCOUVER – A lawyer for the B.C. government told an appeal court panel that the province's stand against restoring clauses over classroom size and composition is no more inflexible than the union's refusal to offer any alternatives.
UPDATE: B.C. police watchdog says officers shot man who set off five-day manhunt
SLOCAN CITY, B.C. – British Columbia's police watchdog has confirmed that a man who set off a five-day police search was shot and killed in a confrontation with two members of the emergency response team.
Tips help Kelowna RCMP find alleged dangerous driver
KELOWNA - An alleged aggressive driver in a red Ford Mustang managed to give Mounties the slip but was eventually tracked down — just as the car was being pushed into a storage locker, Monday. A member of the RCMP noticed the driver manuevering aggressively while tailgating other vehicles, including the investigator's unmarked car, Oct....
Guitars taken from downtown music store
KAMLOOPS - Police are investigating an alleged break and enter at Lee's music store that was reported Sunday night. The incident happened at around 10:45 p.m. Oct. 12. The suspect or suspects used a ladder to gain entry through a window at the back of the business and allegedly stole an undisclosed number of guitars,...
Police to wear body cameras for disbanding of homeless camp
VANCOUVER - Vancouver's police force says some of its officers will be wearing video cameras during the dismantling of a homeless camp that is facing a court-ordered eviction. A B.C. Supreme Court judge has issued an injunction ordering people living in about 200 makeshift shelters in the city's Oppenheimer Park to clear out by 10...
Grow-op investigation becomes two-for-one knock down
KELOWNA - An investigation into an alleged Kelowna grow operation led Mounties to a neighbouring house where a second alleged grow operation was also recently dismantled. The intitial RCMP investigation on a home in the 1700 block of Kloppenburg Road was launched on a tip according to a media release. On Sept. 26, Mounties executed...
UN: Up to 10,000 new cases of Ebola per week in 2 months; death rate hits 70 per cent
LONDON – West Africa could face up to 10,000 new Ebola cases a week within two months, the World Health Organization warned Tuesday, adding that the death rate in the current outbreak has risen to 70 per cent.
MAGNOTTA TRIAL: Biologist found victim’s blood all over apartment
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Kevin Smith talks ‘Comic Book Men’; says he wants to see all-female version
TORONTO – When Kevin Smith's "Comic Book Men" debuted on AMC in 2012, some female fans of the genre cried foul.
Hall of Famer Gordie Howe tells his story: ‘Mr. Hockey’ a slice of Canadiana
TORONTO – Like his playing days, Gordie Howe's career as an author has spanned decades.
Alcohol to be available in B.C. grocery stores by next spring as laws modernized
VANCOUVER – British Columbians will soon be able to grab a bottle of wine when they're shopping for eggs and broccoli.
Military unit blows WWII-era Japanese balloon bomb to ‘smithereens’
LUMBY – Seven decades after thousands of "balloon bombs" were let loose by the Imperial Japanese Army to wreak havoc on their enemies across the Pacific, two forestry workers found one half-buried in the mountains of eastern British Columbia.
Mounties exchanged gunfire with B.C. suspect who escaped into forest
SLOCAN CITY, B.C. – The confrontation that led to the lockdown of an entire community in British Columbia's southeast included an exchange of gunfire between police and a male suspect, says a senior Mountie.
Unexploded WWII Japanese balloon bomb found near Lumby
LUMBY - Police received a strange call from an employee of Tolko Thursday morning who thought an object partially embedded in the ground off Thunder Mountain Road might be a Second World War Japanese balloon bomb. Lumby RCMP went out to look and took pictures of the suspected bomb and the military unit from Esquimalt...
UPDATE: Cyclist critical after collision with water truck
KELOWNA - A 31-year-old woman is in critical condition after a crash with a water truck while cycling on Pandosy Street at Cadder Avenue Thursday morning. The cyclist was trapped under a five-ton Canadian Springs water deliver truck’s rear wheels according to reports. She was taken to nearby Kelowna General Hospital. No word from police...
MAGNOTTA TRIAL: Jury hears from pathologist on Day 9 of first-degree murder trial
MONTREAL – The jury in Luka Rocco Magnotta's first-degree murder trial is listening to the cross-examination of the forensic pathologist who conducted an autopsy on the remains of victim Jun Lin.
Province expects new woodlot near Enderby will generate local jobs
ENDERBY - The province has tendered a new woodlot near Ashton Creek, east of Enderby which should translate into more jobs for the region. "This new woodlot will help keep jobs in the Okanagan and give local communities a greater say in how local forest resources are managed," Shuswap MLA Greg Kyllo says in a press...
Dementia patient dies after assault by fellow patient at B.C. care home
SALMON ARM – Mounties and the coroners' service are investigating after a 93-year-old man with dementia died following an attack by another patient at a long-term care facility in B.C.'s southern Interior.
UPDATE: Police contain area near B.C. town, evacuate homes in search for armed suspect
SLOCAN CITY, B.C. – Mounties have named a suspect who allegedly fired at police and sparked a manhunt in a British Columbia village where residents were told to stay in their homes.
Kamloops girl banned from wearing headscarves
KAMLOOPS – They're pretty and they serve a practical purpose — keeping her bangs out of her eyes.
Veteran SNL cast member Jan Hooks dead at age 57
Jan Hooks, a veteran member of the ”Saturday Night Live” cast from 1986 to '91, has died at the age of 57.
MAGNOTTA TRIAL: Jury hears gruesome testimony from pathologist
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