Murray Wood: With just a bit more attention to detail, Kinsmen Park could be pretty perfect
There were people in Kinsmen Park paid to be working the other morning, so Murray Wood wonders why the litter wasn't pic...
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Regimental funeral in Winnipeg for RCMP officer who died in highway crash
WINNIPEG - An RCMP officer who died in a highway crash was remembered Friday as a fun-loving man with a zest for mischief as well as a deep compassion for friends and family. Well over 1,000 uniformed...
Dec 20, 2019
RCMP say boy safe, father in custody after Amber Alert issued in Alberta
BRULE, Alta. - Alberta RCMP say a toddler has been found unharmed and his father is in custody after an Amber Alert was issued early Friday. The alert went out about 2:30 a.m. for the 14-month-old boy...
Dec 20, 2019
Last tanker cars to be removed from site of derailment in Saskatchewan
LANIGAN, Sask. - Canadian Pacific Railway says it expects the last of its damaged cars will be removed by the end of the week from the site of a fiery derailment in Saskatchewan. It also says in an em...
Dec 20, 2019 Crews work to contain burning oil tankers from a CPR train derailment west of Guernsey on December 9th, 2019 (Brent Bosker/650 CKOM)
Supreme Court ruling nixes U.S. ads for Canadian Super Bowl viewers
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has blown the whistle on a federal regulatory decision that allowed viewers to watch keenly anticipated American commercials during the Super Bowl broadcast. In it...
Dec 19, 2019
‘Looking back, I can say I tried’: Trauma and healing 10 years after Afghan blast
The shock waves of the flesh-ripping, metal-twisting blast that devastated so many Canadian lives on a quiet, rural road in southern Afghanistan 10 years ago still ripple with a force that's palpable....
Dec 19, 2019
Weather all over the map: Environment Canada’s Top 10 weather stories in 2019
David Phillips, Environment Canada's chief meteorologist, has compiled his list of top weather stories for this year. He says it's getting harder to confine his list to 10 events because the weather h...
Dec 19, 2019 (650 CKOM)
Defiant Trump rallies supporters as House impeaches him
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. - Defiant in the face of a historic rebuke, President Donald Trump labeled his impeachment by the House of Representatives on Wednesday "a suicide march" for the Democratic Partyas...
Dec 19, 2019
President Donald Trump impeached by US House, 3rd in history
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday night, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution's...
Dec 19, 2019
SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud, will pay a $280M fine for Libyan work
MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.'s construction division will plead guilty to a charge of fraud over $5,000 and pay a $280-million penalty related to work the company did in Libya. The plea deal come...
Dec 18, 2019
Jody Wilson-Raybould chosen Canada’s newsmaker of the year
By Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public servant and possibly a second majority manda...
Dec 18, 2019 Independent candidate Jody Wilson-Raybould celebrates her election win in Vancouver, B.C. on Monday, October 21, 2019. The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public servant and possibly a second majority mandate; and now the woman at the centre of it all — Jody Wilson-Raybould — is the 2019 Newsmaker of the Year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jimmy Jeong
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