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Shelby Thevenot
Shelby has lived across Canada. She grew up near Winnipeg, Manitoba then obtained her B.F.A in Multidisciplinary Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge in Lethbridge, Alberta. In 2014 she moved to Montreal, Quebec to study French and thrived in the Visual Journalism Graduate Diploma program at Concordia University. Now she works at iNFO News where she strives to get the stories that matter to the Okanagan Valley community.
Member of:
The Professional Writers Association of Canada
Quebec Writers Federation
English Language Arts Network
Looking for a forever home; Penticton SPCA pet of the week
PENTICTON – This cat was brought in a stray to the Penticton SPCA. Peach is…
Looking for a forever home; Vernon SPCA pet of the week
VERNON – Binx is a shy young cat. He has lived with a child and…
Looking for a forever home; Kamloops SPCA pet of the week
KAMLOOPS – A number of rabbits were brought to the B.C. SPCA as part of…
Better times in the oilpatch fail to impress stock market investors
CALGARY – Prospects are looking brighter in the Canadian oilpatch as commodity price increases drive…
Victoria mayor deletes Facebook, says it’s not a place of healthy discourse
The mayor of British Columbia's capital says she's deleting Facebook because it's no longer a…
Colten Boushie’s family says farmer trying to ‘exploit’ Indigenous man’s death
WINNIPEG – When Gerald Stanley testified in a Saskatchewan court last month he told a…
What Facebook’s privacy policy allows may surprise you
NEW YORK – To get an idea of the data Facebook collects about you, just…
Gord Downie’s brothers say more projects are coming from the singer
VANCOUVER – Gord Downie's most recent album "Introduce Yerself" was often considered his final project,…
37 dead, 69 missing in Russian shopping centre fire
MOSCOW – A Russian state news agency is reporting that the death toll in a…
Anti-pipeline protesters continue demonstrations at Burnaby terminal
BURNABY, B.C. – Dozens of Indigenous youth and other demonstrators gathered at Kinder Morgan's Burnaby…
Police: Man attacks golden arches at Oregon McDonald’s
SUTHERLIN, Ore. – Police say a 37-year-old man was far from lovin' it when workers…
20,000 march by Stoneman Douglas High to support gun laws
PARKLAND, Fla. – The march approaching Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, snaked…
‘Vote them out!’: Hundreds of thousands demand gun control
WASHINGTON – In a historic groundswell of youth activism, hundreds of thousands of teenagers and…
Anti-pipeline protests continue in Burnaby, B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. – Anti-pipeline protesters are continuing to demonstrate near Kinder Morgan's terminal in Burnaby,…
Canadian cities hold March for our Lives events in the wake of Parkland shooting
MONTREAL – More than a dozen Canadian cities hosted marches Saturday to call for stricter…
How Cambridge Analytica billionaire got his big break from Canadian bilingualism
WASHINGTON – The controversy over Facebook data gathering has a Canadian backstory far older than…
Snowfall warning for Hwy 3 to Kootenay Pass
Heavy snowfall is expected to the East. Environment Canada issued a snowfall warning for Highway…
Liberals establish road map for talks to legislate a right to housing
OTTAWA – The federal government is offering the first initial hints of how it plans…
UK watchdog eyes evidence seized from Cambridge Analytica
LONDON – Britain's information regulator said Saturday it was assessing evidence gathered from a raid…
Tens of thousands across the US march for gun control
WASHINGTON – Summoned by student survivors of the Florida school shooting, tens of thousands of…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to exonerate Tsilhqot’in warriors hanged in 1860s
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to formally exonerate six First Nations war…
“Goodnight, not goodbye:’ embattled band Hedley plays last show before hiatus
KELOWNA, B.C. – Hedley's frontman suggested Friday that the group's "indefinite hiatus" may not be…
Insurance company uncovers ‘pervasive’ auto body shop scams; urges action
TORONTO – Workers at auto body shops deliberately damaged cars, installed used parts but billed…
Study: Cholesterol drug lowers risk of death, heart attack
ORLANDO, Fla. – A newer cholesterol drug, used with older statin medicines, modestly lowered heart…