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Windsor-based fuel distribution company receives nearly $5M from feds in 'green shipping' money

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:06:40 EST

With hundreds of vessels passing through Windsor's waterways every year, the company that fuels many of them will receive nearly $5 million in new funding to improve their infrastructure for the distribution of lower-carbon fuels — making the shipping industry more sustainable and lower emission. 


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New fast charging stations coming for Tecumseh town hall, local library

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:54:55 EST

The Town of Tecumseh will be getting six new EV charging stations, the province announced Tuesday, in a bid to "support the electrification of transportation across the province."


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Arson suspected in Kamloops, B.C., fire that destroyed Red Bridge

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 16:20:09 EDT

Kamloops RCMP say they are investigating the fire that destroyed the Red Bridge Thursday as an arson.


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City apologizes after porn shown during Kamloops council meeting

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 16:11:10 EDT

The Interior B.C. city is reviewing its policies for public hearings following the incident.


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Residential school monument finds home at national history museum

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 04:00:09 EDT

"People actually reached out and hugged it and they told their [stories] about residential school," master carver Stanley C. Hunt says.


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Residential school survivors press Ottawa for more money to find unmarked graves

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 13:44:58 EDT

A group of residential school survivors and their supporters are asking the federal government to reverse what they're calling a funding cut and come up with more money to help find the unmarked graves of students who went to these institutions.


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B.C. man found guilty in double homicide of Kamloops brothers

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 23:31:35 EDT

A jury has found a Naramata, B.C., man guilty on two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of two brothers. Wade Cudmore, 35, was one of two men accused in the May 2021 drug deal killings of Kamloops, B.C., brothers Erick and Carlo Fryer.


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Kamloops mayor's office moving to basement away from city staff

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 19:40:47 EDT

The office of Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson is being relocated to the basement of city hall.


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Book of poetry shows resilience of residential school survivors

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 09:00:00 EDT

Garry Gottfriedson, who attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School for five years, drew on his own experience at residential school, as well as those of his siblings and parents, for the book. He describes the process of gathering their stories as "powerful."


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Kamloops mayor in court over allegation he owes ex-lawyer $35K

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 21:03:56 EDT

Lawyer David McMillan alleges the mayor owes him payment for services provided between 2021 and 2024.


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How a resolution at the B.C. Law Society became a debate about residential school denialism

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 05:00:00 EDT

A recent request to change the wording in a mandatory Indigenous intercultural course for lawyers in British Columbia led to a debate over whether the changes amounted to residential school denialism. 


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B.C. voting stations affected by power outages reopened

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 18:46:00 EDT

A handful of voting stations were temporarily closed due to power outages on Saturday morning during the final day of B.C.’s provincial election, while the only station in Dease Lake was fully closed because an election official had travel difficulties.


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Kamloops mayor's pay cut 15% for leaking confidential documents

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:48:51 EDT

The pay cut comes after city council had already taken a number of steps against the mayor, including stripping him of his duties as a city spokesperson, removing him from the Thompson Nicola Regional District board and Shuswap Watershed Council and relocating his office to the basement of city hall. 


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Canadian RJ Barrett close to return from injury as Raptors prepare for Wednesday's season opener

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:56:00 EDT

Canadian swingman RJ Barrett was upgraded to day-to-day and engaged in non-contact practise on Monday, two days before Toronto hosts the Cleveland Cavaliers at Scotiabank Arena.


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Apology long overdue for U.S. Indian boarding schools, says former student

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:31:39 EDT

A former student of federal Indian boarding schools in the U.S. says Joe Biden's rare presidential apology was long overdue. "They should have done it years ago," says 74-year-old Rosie Yellowhair.


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Syilx Okanagan woman files lawsuit alleging historic abuse at Vernon Catholic school

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:00:00 EDT

A Syilx Okanagan woman has filed a lawsuit against church authorities and the Canadian government alleging she was physically and sexually abused as a child at a Catholic-run Vernon, B.C., school.


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Sleepy little Falkland, B.C., awakes to big news of superlab drug bust

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:13:28 EDT

Falkland locals are still wrapping their heads around the raid of the rural property, likened to a scene out of Breaking Bad, which was part of an RCMP operation that seized drugs and guns worth almost half a billion dollars.


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Re-elected Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc chief wants to celebrate her community

By www.cbc.ca
Published On :: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 08:00:00 EST

The re-elected chief of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation says she's hoping to forge connections within her community as she looks ahead to her next term.


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