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The incident led to a walkout by some NorKam students on Wednesday (Feb. 24) and has drawn thousands of comments on social media and news stories from across the province. SD73 Supt. Terry Sullivan said he couldnt comment on that incident specifically, citing privacy concerns, but did confirm that an updated policy will be revealed in the coming weeks, likely by the end of March. "Dress codes have to evolve as the norms and values of society evolve," he told KTW. Sullivan said he has resear...

One of the women, who did not wish to have her name published, told KTW she had just turned off her vehicle and the pair was about to leave the vehicle when two men in a white Honda Civic parked unusually close to her passenger side door. Suspicious of two men being at a ladies’ only gym and parking right beside her vehicle in an empty lot, she locked her doors as the driver of the Honda left his vehicle, without saying anything, and pulled on multiple back passenger door handles of her van...

On Feb. 3, RCMP officers responded to an alarm at the business at 9:45 p.m., where they found a large window had been smashed with a rock. Surveillance footage showed a man had entered the store and stole various items of clothing before leaving on a white and silver mountain bike. The suspect is white and he was wearing a black Nike sweater, grey sweatpants, black and white Nike basketball shoes, black gloves and a white medical mask. Kamloops RCMP Const. Crystal Evelyn is the interim med...

Kamloops This Week staff photographer Dave Eagles captures this immature bald eagle sitting perched on a branch just below a fellow bald eagle farther up the tree along the Thompson River recently.. . .

Zahir, a 84-year-old Berwick on the Park resident, spent a year between 1966 and 1967 working in Lahore, Pakistan, to help snuff out smallpox — the contagious disease known for its rash of blisters that was successfully eradicated through vaccination by 1980. Decades earlier, the World Health Organization had initiated a global campaign to rid the word of the disease, which was still endemic in countries across Africa, Asia and South America — a campaign that was intensified in the late 1...

DR. RAATH: This season has been remarkably quiet in regards to influenza. Some have wondered if we are missing cases of influenza, but we are just not finding it, even with ongoing surveillance/testing. There are several proposed reasons for this observation: 1. The same behavioural and structural changes that help to reduce COVID transmission work for influenza. The influenza virus has a similar fatty covering and is sensitive to handwashing, sanitizing, barriers to droplets (like masks) and ...

There is an overwhelming amount of information available on the disease that has created the pandemic, 
but much of it is social media malarkey. To help separate the fact from fiction, KTW editor . . .

There is an overwhelming amount of information available on the disease that has created the pandemic, 
but much of it is social media malarkey. To help separate the fact from fiction, KTW editor . . .

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He then started selling the resistance training devices, gearing them to people with strength and mobility issues to gain more independence and to others whose equipment takes up too much space. The main panel gives the user a variety of resistance and weight training exercise options through its various therabands, standing bar, free weights and strong hooks that attach each piece being used. Business to date, however, has been rather slow, with Ramunno having sold about 15 Wallgyms. “I�...