Dave Barry

Kamloops

News Director at CFJC-TV (Kamloops, BC)

News Dir. at CFJC News - Nothing in fine print is ever good news. Andy Rooney 1919 — 2011

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It's Dave Barry!

2 days ago | borowitzreport.com | Andy Borowitz |Dave Barry

The Borowitz Report PodcastAndy Borowitz hosts short interviews with notable people in the news. Andy Borowitz hosts short interviews with notable people in the news.
Dave Barry Has Thoughts on ‘Boomer Gyration' | Members Only

2 days ago | aarp.org | Dave Barry

AARP (Simon & Schuster, Michelle Kaufman) Facebook Twitter LinkedIn I don’t want to sound like an old fart here. Don’t get me wrong: I am an old fart. But my intention, in this essay, is not to criticize young people, or suggest that they’re somehow inferior to my generation, the baby boomers. I’m simply noting that our generations are different.
Essay | I Got My Sense of Humor From My Mom

5 days ago | wsj.com | Dave Barry

She had an edge—a sharp, dark wit, always ready to strike. Over the years the question I’ve been asked by interviewers more than any other is “Where did you get your sense of humor?” I always answer: my mom. Mom had a hard childhood. My dad’s family was spared the worst of the Depression, but hers struggled. She spent her early years in a small house with a sod roof in Colorado. When she was 10 the family moved to Nebraska, which she found bleak and boring.
Police release sketch in connection with alleged abduction and sexual assault in Abbotsford

2 weeks ago | 895jrcountry.ca | Dave Barry

Police release sketch in connection with alleged abduction and sexual assault in Abbotsford Apr 30, 2025 | 2:35 PM Dave Barry
Filipino nurses shaken by Vancouver festival attack say tragedy ‘will not define us’

2 weeks ago | 895jrcountry.ca | Dave Barry

Filipino-Canadian nurse Glesy Banton-Victoria says she had planned to attend the Lapu Lapu Day street festival in Vancouver on Saturday but took a nap instead, exhausted by a funeral earlier in the day.
Event planners across Canada rethinking security practices following Vancouver attack

2 weeks ago | 895jrcountry.ca | Dave Barry

Event planners across Canada rethinking security practices following Vancouver attack Apr 30, 2025 | 8:33 AM Dave Barry
Economy shrunk 0.2% in February, StatCan estimates 1.5% annualized growth for Q1

2 weeks ago | fraservalleytoday.ca | Dave Barry

By Apr 30, 2025 | 5:59 AM OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the Canadian economy contracted in February but early signs suggest moderate growth in March. The agency says real gross domestic product decreased 0.2 per cent in February. That was driven by a 0.6 per cent decline for goods-producing industries, with mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction and construction contributing the most to the decrease.
Highway 1 overpass struck in Chilliwack

2 weeks ago | 895jrcountry.ca | Dave Barry

CHILLIWACK — The BC Highway Patrol is investigating after an over-height load struck the #3 Road overpass on Highway 1 eastbound in Chilliwack Tuesday (Apr. 29) afternoon. Police say the crash happened around 2:45 p.m., when a tractor-trailer towing a loaded flat deck became stuck under the overpass in the slow lane. The vehicle and its load have since been removed to the side of the road.
Rick Tocchet steps away as Vancouver Canucks head coach after turbulent season

2 weeks ago | fraservalleytoday.ca | Dave Barry

Tocchet guided the Canucks to their first playoff appearance in four seasons last year before Vancouver was eliminated by the Edmonton Oilers in a gritty seven-game series in the second round. The 61-year-old former NHL winger won the Jack Adams award as the league’s top coach last season and was named an assistant coach for Canada at the 4 Nations Face-Off tournament in February.
Pacific Institution inmate dies while in custody

2 weeks ago | fraservalleytoday.ca | Dave Barry

By Natural Causes Apr 29, 2025 | 12:44 PM ABBOTSFORD — Corrections Canada says an inmate at the Pacific Institution in Abbotsford died while in custody over the weekend. According to a news release, 81-year-old Darwin Heilman died of apparent natural causes Sunday (Apr. 27). Heilman had been in custody since 1971 and was serving an indeterminate sentence.