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  • Kanye West to buy conservative social media platform Parler

    October 17, 2022 - 3:54 PM

    The rapper formerly known as Kanye West is offering to buy right-wing friendly social network Parler shortly after getting locked out of Twitter and Instagram for antisemitic posts.

  • 1st post-pandemic cruise ship from US sails away

    June 26, 2021 - 4:08 PM

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The first cruise ship to leave a U.S. port since the coronavirus pandemic brought the industry to a 15-month standstill sailed away on Saturday with nearly all vaccinated passengers on board.

  • 'We need help': Economic, health crises grow as cases top 1M

    April 02, 2020 - 8:05 PM

    NEW YORK - The coronavirus outbreak has thrown 10 million Americans out of work in just two weeks in the swiftest, most stunning collapse the U.S. job market has ever witnessed, and the public health crisis deepened in New York City, where a funeral home in a hard-hit neighbourhood had 185 bodies stacked up Thursday — more than triple normal capacity.

  • Comic-Con at 50: Bigger than ever, but at what cost?

    July 17, 2019 - 5:16 AM

    LOS ANGELES - No one expected their culture would ever become mainstream when a few hundred comic book and science fiction enthusiasts and creators gathered in the basement of a San Diego hotel 49 years ago for what would become known as the first Comic-Con.

  • You've seen his work before, now this Kelowna designer is taking on Canadiana

    May 12, 2019 - 12:00 PM

    KELOWNA - Three years ago Markku Luopa was a Kelowna it-man, having created a line of clothing that made being an Okanaganite a lifestyle statement.

  • Brexit could spell economic peril for parts of the EU

    February 06, 2019 - 6:13 AM

    BARCELOS, Portugal - For the more than 120 workers at the Pedrosa & Rodrigues garment factory in northwestern Portugal, events in another country 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) to the north could jeopardize their livelihood.

  • US sportswear traced to factory in China's internment camps

    December 19, 2018 - 6:49 AM

    HOTAN, China - Barbed wire and hundreds of cameras ring a massive compound of more than 30 dormitories, schools, warehouses and workshops in China's far west. Dozens of armed officers and a growling Doberman stand guard outside.

  • Trudeau says Canada wants to see 'movement' before signing revised NAFTA deal

    September 19, 2018 - 4:58 PM

    WASHINGTON - Thirteen months is an "absolutely normal" time frame for a task as complex as modernizing North American trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Wednesday as she notched another day on the road towards a new NAFTA deal with the United States and Mexico.

  • Businesses, cities cashing in on total solar eclipse crowds

    July 27, 2017 - 7:56 AM

    BARTLETT, Tenn. - Millions of eyes will be fixed on the sky when a total solar eclipse crosses the U.S. in August, and it's likely many of them will be safely behind the special glasses churned out by a Tennessee company.

  • Police, fire heroics prompt anti-austerity push in Britain

    July 04, 2017 - 6:26 AM

    LONDON - Britain's police and firefighters, repeatedly hailed as heroes in recent months for facing down extremists and rushing into burning buildings, have become the symbol of a new anti-austerity drive in the country.
  • Reid Hamer-Jackson at his swearing in ceremony, Nov. 1, 2022. JONESIE: Why Reid Hamer-Jackson can't fight city hall
    OPINION I don’t live in Kamloops. Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson’s antics have no effect on me personally, so allow me to be a bit more philosophical about it. I want to like the guy, more for what he could represent than wh
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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