Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Organizers wonder how big crowds will get for Winnipeg Jets street party
By Steve Lambert WINNIPEG - At first, it was just a few thousand people braving the cold to cheer on the Winnipeg Jets in a street party. Then the numbers grew. And, with each game, the crowd got bigg...
Apr 26, 2018
Police probe Toronto van attack as details emerge, sports fans come together
TORONTO - Details are still emerging about the victims of this week's deadly van attack in north Toronto, as authorities carry out a painstaking investigation. Police continue to comb the one-kilometr...
Apr 26, 2018
Families mourn victims of Toronto van attack that killed 10 people
By Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press The families shattered by a deadly rampage through the streets of Toronto include a seven-year-old boy now left without a mother and a son forced to bury the f...
Apr 25, 2018
Humboldt Broncos player paralyzed in deadly crash says survivors bonding
CALGARY - A Humboldt Broncos player says a crash that killed 16 people and left him paralyzed has brought the surviving members of his hockey team closer together. Ryan Straschnitzki, who is 19, sat i...
Apr 25, 2018
Small aircraft short on fuel touches down on Calgary street
CALGARY - A small plane carrying six people made an emergency landing on a Calgary street Wednesday morning. Police say the twin-engine plane was coming in from the south, heading for a landing at the...
Apr 25, 2018
Nipawin Hawks honour Humboldt Broncos en route to SJHL championship
NIPAWIN, Sask. - The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League season came to an end on Tuesday with the Nipawin Hawks being crowned league champions 18 days after the deadly bus crash involving the league's ...
Apr 25, 2018 The Nipawin Hawks won the Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League championship after winning Game 7 over the Estevan Bruins on April 24, 2018. (Nipawin Hawks/Facebook)
Identities of 10 killed in Toronto van attack will take days to confirm: Coroner
By Michelle McQuigge, The Canadian Press TORONTO - Investigators probing the deadly van attack that killed 10 people and injured 14 others in north Toronto have not yet identified any of those who die...
Apr 24, 2018
Peru orders arrest of two suspects in Canadian man’s killing
LIMA, Peru - Peru's attorney general has ordered the arrest of two suspects in the killing of a Canadian man who travelled to the Amazon rain forest to study hallucinogenic medicine, officials said Mo...
Apr 24, 2018 Sebastian Woodroffe, 41, was reportedly killed on April 19, 2018 by an angry mob in a village in a remote part of Peru. (Sebastian Woodroffe/Facebook)
Broncos families surprised obituaries are on website selling services
By Rob Drinkwater, The Canadian Press Some families of Humboldt Broncos bus crash victims are surprised to learn that error-riddled obituaries of their loved ones have been posted on a website that's ...
Apr 23, 2018
Airplane makes emergency landing on B.C.’s Coquihalla Highway
MERRITT, B.C. - Motorists driving on B.C.'s Coquihalla Highway were treated to a bizarre sight this afternoon when a small airplane landed on the highway median. Debra Sharkey was driving from Vancouv...
Apr 22, 2018
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