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Postal service cut back Tuesdays, Thursdays

Postal service cut back Tuesdays, Thursdays

Postal workers took to the streets on Tuesday, not to deliver mail, but to protest service cuts by Canada Post.

Canada Post shuts down urban operations nationwide

Following 12 days of rotating strike activity by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Canada Post has decided to suspend mail service in urban areas across the country.
It's a calling - RCMP dispatchers win award

It's a calling - RCMP dispatchers win award

A team of high-pressure communicators has been given a high-level honour.

Skakun seeking to appeal judgment

City council member Brian Skakun is attempting to appeal his conviction for violating provincial privacy legislation by leaking confidential documents to a local media outlet.

Sudsless Stanley Cup at CN Centre

Hockey fans who converged on CN Centre to take in the Stanley Cup finals and enjoyed a beer or two while cheering on their team suddenly found themselves without suds on Monday when sales were stopped in response to an edict from the liquor control a

High winds could fan flames of northern B.C. fire

All remains quiet on the fire front in Prince George, but the province's wildfire branch has issued a strong-wind warning for the Tisigar Lake fire in Northern B.C.

Large Tisigar fire in northern B.C. gets rain break

A forecast high-wind warning for the Tisigar fire in northern B.C., the largest in the province, didn't materialize Tuesday evening.

Manslaughter trial under way

A trial has begun for a Prince George man accused of manslaughter. Robert Oliver Nelson faces the charge in relation to the death of Darren Lee Paterson who died in on July 14, 2009 from injuries allegedly suffered in a severe beating.

Privacy commissioner says she could have handled Skakun matter

Provincial privacy commissioner Elizabeth Denham is "perplexed" by Crown counsel's decision to take City councillor Brian Skakun to court when he leaked confidential documents to the media rather than turn to her office to deal with the issue.
Boston blanks Canucks to win cup

Boston blanks Canucks to win cup

"They played like they were in Boston." So said a dejected Vancouver Canucks fan as she made her way to the parking lot at CN Centre, one of about 850 who gathered for what they thought was going to be Stanley Cup celebration for the ages.