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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Former B.C. premier Christy Clark says blocking Trans Mountain is 'illegal'
By Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - British Columbia's efforts to block the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion are illegal and will hurt all of Canada, says the former B.C. premier who origin...
Feb 11, 2018
Snowboarders Parrot and McMorris capture silver and bronze at Pyeongchang Olympics
Canadian snowboarders Max Parrot and Mark McMorris have won Canada's first medals of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Parrot captured silver in men's slopestyle while McMorris took bronze. Redmond Gerard of ...
Feb 10, 2018 Canadian snowboarders Max Parrot who won a silver medal and Regina's Mark McMorris who won bronze in the slopestyle snowboarding event pose with gold medalist American Redmond Gerard Feb. 10, 2018. (Team Canada/Twitter)
'Absolutely perverse:' Outrage after white farmer found not guilty in Indigenous death
By Bill Graveland, The Canadian Press BATTLEFORD, Sask. - The federal justice minister has said the country "can and must do better" after a white farmer was acquitted in the shooting death of a young...
Feb 10, 2018
Olympic Roundup: Canada comes up empty on first day of medals in Pyeongchang
Canada was still looking for its first medal after Saturday's competition at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, but big results from the country's snowboarders, curlers and lugers suggested that a trip ...
Feb 10, 2018 Regina's Mark McMorris completes his qualifying run in men's slopestyle in the Pyeongchang winter games on Feb. 10, 2018. (olympic.ca)
Canada sheds 88,000 net jobs, but sees full-time gains; jobless rate at 5.9%
Andy Blatchford, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - The number of jobs in Canada fell by 88,000 in January to give the labour market its steepest one-month drop in nine years, Statistics Canada said Friday. ...
Feb 09, 2018
Olympic Roundup: Virtue, Moir lead Canada into opening ceremony; figure skaters start strong
Ice dance stars Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir took turns carrying the Canadian flag at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday, hours after their teammates got Canada off to a ...
Feb 09, 2018
Police recover remains of six people in alleged serial killer probe
By Michelle McQuigge and Peter Goffin, The Canadian Press TORONTO - An alleged serial killer accused of murdering five men is expected to face more charges after Toronto police announced the discovery...
Feb 08, 2018
Former Cup winner Chris Kelly named captain of Canada's Olympic men's hockey team
GANGNEUNG, Korea, Republic Of - Chris Kelly has been named captain of Canada's men's hockey team at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Kelly is a veteran of 833 games and won a Stanley Cup with the...
Feb 08, 2018
Feds earmark cash to protect children from online sexual exploitation
By Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press OTTAWA - The Liberal government has announced millions of dollars in new money for a national centre that works to protect children from online sexual exploitation...
Feb 07, 2018
MMA and former employees plead guilty, fined $1.25 million in Lac-Megantic case
MONTREAL - The bankrupt railway at the centre of the Lac-Megantic train explosion and several of its former employees have settled with the federal government and were ordered to pay fines totalling $...
Feb 05, 2018
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