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Nanaimo Sport Achieve Awards seek nominations for 20th annual event
NANAIMO - The Nanaimo Sport Achievement Awards will celebrate a milestone 20th year.Nominations opened in early December and will wrap up on Jan. 12.The 2025 ceremony itself happens on Feb. 21 at the ...
Jan 12, 2025
Florence Girard was 55 pounds when she starved in home-share. Her sister wants change
The sister of a British Columbia woman with Down syndrome who starved to death in a Port Coquitlam home in 2018 says she believes more people will die if systemic changes aren't made to how people wit...
Jan 12, 2025
Florence Girard was 55 pounds when she starved in home-share. Her sister wants change
The sister of a British Columbia woman with Down syndrome who starved to death in a Port Coquitlam home in 2018 says she believes more people will die if systemic changes aren't made to how people wit...
Jan 12, 2025
Contrasts start to take shape in leadership race for Manitoba's Opposition Tories
WINNIPEG - The battle for the leadership of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives is three months from being decided, and the two men vying for the role are laying out different paths to try to reign...
Jan 12, 2025
Quebec Liberals 'at a crossroads' as leadership race kicks off Monday
MONTREAL - As the federal Liberals prepare to choose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's successor, another Liberal leadership race is getting underway in Quebec this week. The stakes are high for the Que...
Jan 12, 2025
With Conservatives promising to 'defund,' could the next election kill the CBC?
OTTAWA - In late 2023, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said it was time for the federal government to redefine what the CBC does and how it does it. A year later - and with a federal election expect...
Jan 12, 2025
Justin Trudeau's own walk in the snow launched a historic week in federal politics
OTTAWA - "Sunny ways, my friends. Sunny ways." With those words, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began his time in office, having brought the Liberals out of the political wilderness and into a majority...
Jan 12, 2025
Coronato continues to play a key role for improving Flames
CALGARY - Dustin Wolf, Matt Coronato and Jonathan Huberdeau have each played pivotal roles for the surprising Calgary Flames this season and that was the case again on Saturday night. Coronato had a g...
Jan 12, 2025
Spaun grabs one-stroke lead at Sony Open, Taylor two shots back
HONOLULU (AP) - Stephan Jaeger had nine birdies for the lowest round this week at Waialae, and two of the most important holes for him Saturday in the Sony Open were pars. Jaeger knows dropping a shot...
Jan 11, 2025
Huberdeau, Wolf lead Flames to 2-1 win over Kings
CALGARY - Jonathan Huberdeau scored the game-winner early in the third period and Dustin Wolf made 31 saves to lead the Calgary Flames to a 2-1 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday. Matt Cor...
Jan 11, 2025