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Kelowna, B.C.’s waterfront is still on the quieter side, but it won’t be long before tourists start arriving. This year the Okanagan could be in for an especially busy tourism season and the valley’ s many attractions aren’t the only reasons.“There’s also that sense of Canadian, Canadianism right now,” said Ellen Walker-Matthews, CEO of Thompson-Okanagan Tourism Association.Many Canadians are avoiding travel to the United States amid the trade war.B.C. Premier David Eby even encouraged vacationing closer to home when possible.“Where you have a choice, please choose to travel in Canada,” Eby said at a recent news conference.With more Canadians expected…

United States President Donald Trump has made good on a campaign promise to begin shuttering the Department of Education, though his efforts are likely to face court challenges and constitutional barriers. On Thursday, the Republican leader held an elaborate ceremony to sign an executive order that would set in motion the department’s demise. A semi-circle of children were arranged in desks around the president, each with their own version of the executive order to sign. When Trump uncapped his marker to sign the order, the children followed suit. When he lifted up the completed order for the cameras, so too…

Jeffrey Gundlach speaking at the 2019 SOHN Conference in New York on May 5, 2019.Adam Jeffery | CNBCDoubleLine Capital CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said Thursday there could be another painful period of volatility on the horizon as the fixed income guru sees heighted risk of a recession.”I believe that investors should have already upgraded their portfolios … I think that we’re going to have another bout of risk,” Gundlach said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.”Gundlach, whose firm managed about $95 billion at the end of 2024, said DoubleLine has lowered the amount of borrowed funds to amplify positions in its leveraged funds to the…

President Trump’s assertion that a gang is committing crimes in the United States at the direction of Venezuela’s government was critical to his invocation of a wartime law last week to summarily deport people whom officials suspected of belonging to that group.But American intelligence agencies circulated findings last month that stand starkly at odds with Mr. Trump’s claims, according to officials familiar with the matter. The document, dated Feb. 26, summarized the shared judgment of the nation’s spy agencies that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan government. The disclosure calls into question the credibility of Mr. Trump’s basis…

The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that it would delay by 30 months a requirement that food companies and grocers rapidly trace contaminated food through the supply chain and pull it off the shelves.Intended to “limit food-borne illness and death,” the rule required companies and individuals to maintain better records to identify where foods are grown, packed, processed or manufactured. It was set to go into effect in January 2026 as part of a landmark food safety law passed in 2011, and was advanced during President Trump’s first term.Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, has expressed interest…

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.Announcing the award, Rebecca Hussey, a member of the autobiography committee, praised the memoir, “Patriot,” as a masterpiece and “an eyewitness account of history, and a work of moral imperative and literary intelligence.”Hisham Matar’s novel “My Friends,” a story about a Libyan man living in exile in London, won the fiction prize.The awards, which were announced Thursday at a ceremony at the…

Flights in and out of Bali have been cancelled following a volcanic eruption in Indonesia.Budget airline Jetstar confirmed the cancellations on Friday, saying volcanic ash from the eruption of Mount Lewotobi has grounded flights.“Impacted customers have been notified directly and provided a range of options, including rebooking on the next available flight,” the company said.Camera IconJetstar flights to Bali were cancelled on Friday morning. NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui Credit: News Corp Australia“At this stage, there is no impact to this afternoon’s scheduled flights. We continue to monitor the situation closely and will contact customers directly if there are any…

A Utah man was arrested after using a stolen notepad and pen to pass a note to a bank teller, claiming he had a bomb and wanted $20,000.  According to court documents obtained by FOX 13 News, West Valley City police responded to a call about a robbery at a bank on Wednesday, March 19.When police arrived on the scene, they located and arrested the suspect, identified as Christopher Thomas Kirby, 37, who allegedly attempted to rob the bank by passing a note to the teller.Detectives say Kirby walked into the bank and passed a sticky note to the teller…

Subscribe to Popcast!Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | YouTubeIn the almost five years since the release of “Whole Lotta Red,” Playboi Carti’s second studio album, the Atlanta rapper graduated from a potentially influential internet curio to a full-blown, era-defining headliner.Still, even while closing festivals with his brand of mosh pit mayhem and helping to lead songs like “Fein” by Travis Scott and “Carnival” by Ye (formerly Kanye West) into the Billboard Top 5, Carti has maintained the edge and mystique of an underground cult hero. That is, in part, thanks to absence: canceled concerts, blown appearances and repeated,…

European Union regulators on Wednesday ramped up their efforts to force Apple and Google to change key parts of their businesses, despite potential pushback from the Trump administration over the regulation of American tech companies.The European Commission, the executive branch of the 27-nation bloc, said Apple and Google had violated a law passed in 2022 that was intended to ensure fair competition in the digital economy.The decisions add a new layer to geopolitical tensions between the United States and European Union on issues ranging from trade and tariffs to Ukraine and military defense.The commission said a preliminary judgment had found…