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VIDEO: Alice Cooper sends love to Prince George following cancellation of CN Centre show

VIDEO: Alice Cooper sends love to Prince George following cancellation of CN Centre show

‘We will be back to Prince George. You can tell all of your friends that.’
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Canada can make vaccines, just not the ones leading the COVID-19 race

Canada can make vaccines, just not the ones leading the COVID-19 race

OTTAWA — The head of a Canadian biotech industry association says Canada can and does make vaccines — just not the ones expected first to help stop the COVID-19 pandemic.
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B.C. records another 738 COVID-19 cases, Northern Health breaks single-day case-count record

B.C. records another 738 COVID-19 cases, Northern Health breaks single-day case-count record

Another 13 new deaths from the virus
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MP raises concerns as review puts air traffic control tower at stake

MP raises concerns as review puts air traffic control tower at stake

Cariboo-Prince George MP Todd Doherty is raising alarm bells over a review that could put the air traffic control tower at Prince George Airport on the chopping block.
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Liberals to unveil first step on child-care plan in economic update, sources say

Liberals to unveil first step on child-care plan in economic update, sources say

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals will take a small step toward a plan to create a national daycare system, with sources telling The Canadian Press next week's economic update will have money for a new federal child-care body.
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UNBC innovation hub launches to make tech available to older adults in northern, rural communities

UNBC innovation hub launches to make tech available to older adults in northern, rural communities

Centre to help older adults use technology to remain independent as long as possible
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B.C. hotel worker suffers heart attack after being spit upon by man refusing to wear mask

B.C. hotel worker suffers heart attack after being spit upon by man refusing to wear mask

NELSON, B.C. — A hotel worker in Nelson, B.C., suffered a heart attack shortly after a confrontation with a patron who refused to wear a mask and wouldn't leave the hotel's coffee shop.
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B.C.'s working women carrying bigger burden than men amid COVID-19: report

B.C.'s working women carrying bigger burden than men amid COVID-19: report

Provincial measures meant to tamp down on the pandemic this past spring saw schools and swaths of businesses temporarily shuttered, leaving many British Columbians tied to their own households throughout the season.
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Modest wage increase for Prince George school trustees amid COVID-19

Modest wage increase for Prince George school trustees amid COVID-19

A three per cent increase was favoured, except for one long-time trustee
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RCMP in northern B.C. issue ice-safety reminder after truck breaks through frozen lake

RCMP in northern B.C. issue ice-safety reminder after truck breaks through frozen lake

On Sunday, Nov. 22, 2020, the Fort St John RCMP received a report of a submerged pickup truck after the driver attempted to cross Charlie Lake in order to go ice fishing.
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