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Fearing demolition, Montreal skateboarders rally to protect DIY skatepark from city
MONTREAL - Montreal skateboarders are rallying to protect a Do-It-Yourself skatepark known as Project 45 from what the city has said are plans to redevelop the space but skaters fear are plans to demo...
Oct 19, 2024
First atmospheric river of fall season to bring heavy rains on B.C. election day
Environment Canada is ramping up rainfall warnings in British Columbia, where Vancouver Island, metro Vancouver and the coastal regions of the province are bracing for major downpours through the week...
Oct 19, 2024
Hannah Green keeps 2-shot lead after three rounds of the BMW Ladies Championship
PAJU, South Korea (AP) - Hannah Green of Australia shot a 2-under 70 on Saturday to hold a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the BMW Ladies Championship in South Korea. Green shot 64 in each of th...
Oct 19, 2024
Emirates Team New Zealand wins 37th America’s Cup by beating INEOS Britannia 7-2
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Emirates Team New Zealand won the 37th America's Cup by clinching match point for a 7-2 victory over INEOS Britannia on Saturday. New Zealand secured a three-peat after also wi...
Oct 19, 2024
'Hateful and mean': LGBTQ+ advocates slam Sask. Party's proposed change room policy
Blake Tait says he's still healing from being outed by his school's guidance counsellor when he was 14. Feeling safe at his school in Saskatoon, he started telling people he was transgender. But he fe...
Oct 19, 2024
Lawyer for Mozambique's opposition politician is fatally shot following disputed election
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique's leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party s...
Oct 19, 2024
Lawyer for Mozambique's opposition politician is fatally following disputed election
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) - Gunmen chased down the lawyer for Mozambique's leading opposition politician and a senior opposition official and fatally shot them in their car in the capital, their party s...
Oct 19, 2024
'Sleeping with an elephant:' What will a Republican or Democrat win mean for Canada?
WASHINGTON - Pierre Trudeau famously described living next to the United States as "sleeping with an elephant," a sentiment his son is intimately aware of amid this year's tumultuous and polarized Ame...
Oct 19, 2024
Where will B.C.'s election be won or lost? Here are five bellwether ridings to watch
British Columbia voters are heading to the polls, and political podcast co-host Mike McDonald says he is watching five ridings as bellwethers. Here are the five ridings he's watching as indicators of ...
Oct 19, 2024
B.C. voters face a once-unthinkable election choice, after stunning rise of Rustad
VANCOUVER - The choice facing British Columbians in the provincial election today would have been unthinkable just a few months ago. The B.C. Conservatives, whose party won less than two per cent of t...
Oct 19, 2024