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    Matthew and Kari Atkins have been paying $1,200 a month to treat Kari’s metastatic breast cancer for the last several months. (Submitted photo)

    B.C. couple left to foot $1,200-a-month cancer treatment bill due to ‘funding loophole’
    Residents and community members gather to look at a tree that was destroyed during a major storm in Ottawa on Saturday, May 21, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

    Death toll from storm hits 10 as Ontario, Quebec communities survey damage
    B.C. couple concerned about pooches consuming pot after dog’s scary situation

    B.C. couple concerned about pooches consuming pot after dog’s scary situation
    Vancouver Island treetop retreat tops Airbnb list of Canada’s best new hosts

    Vancouver Island treetop retreat tops Airbnb list of Canada’s best new hosts

    A small plane had to make an emergency landing Sunday, May 22, at the Vernon Regional Airport. (File photo)

    Plane makes emergency landing Sunday at Okanagan airport
    John Korobanik is seen here on May 18 at the Nelson and District Community Complex during the launch of his book Visionary: The Ernie Gare Story. Photo: Tyler Harper

    New book profiles Nelson man behind Canada’s first student-athlete scholarship
    Edmonton Oilers winger Evander Kane skates amongst hats thrown onto the ice after his hat-trick during second period NHL second round playoff hockey action against the Calgary Flames in Edmonton, Sunday, May 22, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

    Kane nets hat trick as Oilers thump Flames 4-1 to take 2-1 playoff series lead
    Amesbury pre-game with the Tulsa Oilers. (Special to The News)

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    This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a monkeypox virion, obtained from a sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. Monkeypox, a disease that rarely appears outside Africa, has been identified by European and American health authorities in recent days. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - AP, CDC - Cynthia S. Goldsmith, Russell Regner

    Canada considering smallpox vaccine for monkeypox cases, says Dr. Theresa Tam

    Chief Public Health Officer of Canada Dr. Theresa Tam speaks during a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic in Ottawa on Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

    Monkeypox poses low risk, but everyone susceptible: Tam

    This screencap shows Caitlin Oakley rushing out of her North Saanich home to help rescue her family’s pet Goose from a Bald Eagle while breast-feeding her daughter. (Screencap/Courtesy Mike Lazic) This screencap shows Caitlin Oakley rushing out of her North Saanich home to help rescue her family’s pet Goose from a Bald Eagle while breast-feeding her daughter. (Screencap/Courtesy Mike Lazic)

    VIDEO: B.C. mom saves pet goose from eagle while breastfeeding 4-month-old daughter

    Edmonton Oilers goalie Mikko Koskinen, centre, reacts as Calgary Flames forward Blake Coleman celebrates his goal during second period NHL second round playoff hockey action against the Edmonton Oilers in Calgary, Wednesday, May 18, 2022.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

    Battle of Alberta starts with a bang as Flames down Oilers 9-6 to open playoff series

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    Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses delegates during the first day of the 75th World Health Assembly at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, May 22, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

    WHO chief: COVID pandemic is ‘most certainly not over’

    ‘We lower our guard at our peril’

    FILE - This Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011 file photo shows the headquarters of the Southern Baptist Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Leaders of the SBC, America’s largest Protestant stonewalled and denigrated survivors of clergy sex abuse over almost two decades, according to a scathing 288-page investigative report issued Sunday, May 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)

    Report: Top Southern Baptists stonewalled sex abuse victims

    Seven-month investigation was conducted by independent firm

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    FILE - Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins warms up before an NFL football game against the Baltimore Ravens, Dec. 5, 2021, in Pittsburgh. Haskins was legally drunk and had taken drugs before he was fatally struck by a dump truck while walking on a Florida interstate highway last month, an autopsy report released Monday, May 23, 2022, concluded. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

    Autopsy: Steelers QB Haskins was drunk when fatally struck

    Quarterback hit by dump truck on Florida highway

    Edmonton Oilers goalie Mike Smith, left, lets in a goal as Calgary Flames forward Elias Lindholm looks on during first period NHL second round playoff hockey action in Calgary, Alta., Friday, May 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

    Flames looking for ‘foundation’ after Game 2 loss: ‘We’re playing into their hands’

    Calgary could be in big trouble against its high-flying provincial rival

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    Today, the city of Victoria, B.C. is a picturesque location and a popular tourist destination. (Pixabay.com)

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    A turtle and a duck share a sunbathing log at Sardis Park in Chilliwack on April 9, 2015. Monday, May 23, 2022 is World Turtle Day. (Jenna Hauck/ Chilliwack Progress)

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    Cariboo Chilcotin Youth Fiddle Society players perform during their Roaring Fiddles showcase combining their music, with elements of theatre and dance to transport the audience back to the 1920's and the golden age of radio. (Ruth Lloyd photo - Williams Lake Tribune)

    Cariboo Chilcotin Youth Fiddle Society’s hard work pays dividends with successful showcase

    Roaring Fiddles in the 1920s-Fiddling with the Radio Dial show a roaring success

    Community members enjoy socializing at a yard sale held on May 1 at Tatlayoko Lake. (Linda Lou Howarth photo)

    Yard sale enjoyed at Tatlayoko Lake

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      Jason Aldean, left, and Bryan Adams perform “Heaven” at the CMT Music Awards on Monday, April 11, 2022, in Nashville, Tenn. Adams is hitting the road in Canada with a cross-country tour set for later this summer. (AP Photo/Mark Zaleski)

      Bryan Adams is heading out on a cross-Canada tour later this year

      Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary and Kelowna dates included among 25 Canadian dates

      FILE - A$AP Rocky, left, and Rihanna attend The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion” exhibition in New York on Sept. 13, 2021. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

      Reports: Rihanna and A$AP Rocky welcome baby boy in LA

      People magazine, citing an unnamed source, said A$AP and Rihanna are home in Los Angeles

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      As a former reporter and editor at the Tribune, Diana French carries on sharing her ideas through her weekly column. (Photo submitted)

      Looking back at old news that could be today’s headlines

      Diana FRENCH
      Special to the Tribune

        Lorne Doerkson is the Liberal MLA for the Cariboo-Chilcotin. (Black Press Media file photos)

        MLA’S CORNER: No relief from gas prices in sight

        Williams Lake gas prices are now pushing a shocking $2 per litre

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