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Kelowna's City Park hosted the annual Apple Marathon this past Sunday, with runners tackling routes through downtown, the North End and South Pandosy. Hundreds of athletes competed in the full marathon, half marathon and eight-kilometre run, with 392 total competitors, 276 men and 116 women. Local runner Michael Serani took the men's marathon title.
The Kelowna Chamber of Commerce announced this week it will hold an all-candidates forum on October 20 at the Kelowna Events Centre. The forum will feature candidates running in the Kelowna-Mission, Kelowna Centre and Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream ridings. Residents can attend free of charge, giving them a direct chance to question those seeking to represent them provincially ahead of the vote.
Jason McDaniel, who took over as ICBC's boss in January, will be the keynote speaker at the final 2026 Okanagan College Speaker Series event on Thursday, Oct. 8, held at the Four Points by Sheraton Kelowna Airport. He'll be joined by Blair Qualey, president and CEO of the New Car Dealers Association.
The U.S. imposed a ban on certain Canadian imports including alcohol, molasses and motorcycles as of 12:01 a.m. Tuesday, in retaliation for Canada's counter-tariffs implemented nearly three weeks earlier, with the bans coming into force alongside dairy byproducts. The move deepens the cross-border strain hitting Canadian exporters.
Stelco said the decision will impact up to 500 employees, with the company indefinitely idling its cold-rolled and coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant, with winding down set to begin Oct. 9. The company says tariffs imposed last year by the United States caused its cold-rolled and galvanized markets to contract by almost 25 per cent.
A group of about 20 to 30 masked men associated with Second Sons Canada gathered on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops, B.C., on Sunday, just days before the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. RCMP said they were investigating the "cowardly attempt to avoid accountability for actions and messages that are clearly intended to intimidate, provoke fear and division."
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