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Paul Bernardo denied parole after victims' families plead he be kept behind bars
November 26, 2024 - 5:12 PM

Notorious killer and rapist Paul Bernardo has been denied parole for a third time after the families of his victims made an emotional plea to the Parole Board of Canada on Tuesday to keep him behind bars.
'Gut-wrenching:' Rapist killer Paul Bernardo set for second parole hearing June 22
June 02, 2021 - 1:24 PM

TORONTO - Convicted teen killer and serial rapist Paul Bernardo is set for his second parole hearing this month, the Parole Board of Canada announced on Wednesday, dredging yet again heart-cracking memories for his victims' relatives.
UPDATED: West Kelowna mom beater sentenced to another 2.5 years in prison
January 29, 2021 - 12:07 PM

Kevin Lee Barrett has been sentenced to six years in prison today for beating his elderly mother in 2019.
iN PHOTOS: A season of fear, not cheer, as virus changes Christmas
December 23, 2020 - 8:30 PM

Montserrat Parello lost her husband eight years ago, and Christmas gatherings with children and grandchildren had helped her deal with her loneliness. But this year, the 83-year-old will be alone for the holiday at her home in Barcelona, due to the risk of infection from the coronavirus.
Europe's Christmas dilemma: risk empty chairs next year?
November 28, 2020 - 9:00 PM

BRUSSELS - Please leave a chair empty at this year's family Christmas dinner as a precaution, or face the possibility of having that chair empty forever.
Penticton woman sentenced to year in jail for killing boyfriend with injection of morphine
September 23, 2020 - 3:38 PM

A young Penticton woman will spend a year behind bars for manslaughter after injecting her boyfriend with an overdose of morphine.
Q&A: What does banning TikTok and WeChat mean for users?
September 19, 2020 - 9:00 PM

The U.S. government is cracking down on the Chinese apps TikTok and WeChat, starting by barring them from app stores on Sunday.
Return of family visits in Interior long term care homes is 'heart-wrenching' and confusing
July 18, 2020 - 6:30 AM

While long term care homes in the Interior Health Region are slowly opening up to visitors, some are finding the rules confusing even though they’re happy to regain some closeness to their loved ones.
Ex-inmate to keep making podcast that helped him win freedom
January 03, 2019 - 7:00 AM

OAKLAND, Calif. - In California, inmates typically are granted parole by doing good deeds or showing they have been rehabilitated by becoming pastors, drug counsellors or youth advocates. For Walter "Earlonne" Woods, the path to freedom was podcasting.
Work still needed years after landmark ruling on Indigenous sentencing: lawyers
May 13, 2018 - 10:30 AM

VANCOUVER - Nearly two decades after a landmark court decision on sentencing Indigenous offenders, lawyers say there are no national standards for implementing the ruling and too many Aboriginal people are still behind bars.
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LETTER: 'Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe.': COVID five years in
OPINION Be Kind. Be Calm. Be Safe. Those memorable words spoken during the COVID pandemic by BC’s Provincial Heath Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry resonated far beyond by boundaries of the province she so effect

Trying to buy Canadian? Shoppers in Kamloops, Okanagan find it isn't easy
A trade war with President Donald Trump has Canadian shoppers trying to source locally made grocery products, but understanding product labels at major grocery outlets is complicated and some major grocery outlets are not forthcoming with informa

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

West Kelowna, Kamloops fall behind BC government's 'unrealistic' housing targets
Both West Kelowna and Kamloops are failing to meet the province's housing targets, and politicians at the Okanagan city are frustrated. West Kelowna built 64 net new housing units over the past six months, and the BC government expects

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