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Woman found floating off Parksville beach revived by onlookers
PARKSVILLE - A woman has a couple of strangers to thank for potentially saving her life.The 74-year-old tourist from Ontario was found floating in the water off the north end of McMillan St., behind t...
Aug 04, 2021
Canadian Tajon Buchanan continues remarkable rise with MLS all-star selection
Canadian international Tajon Buchanan's remarkable rise continued Wednesday when he was named an MLS all-star. The 22-year-old winger from Brampton, Ont., who plays for the New England Revolution, was...
Aug 04, 2021
Border workers issue strike notice to government, job action to start Friday: union
OTTAWA - A union representing about 9,000 Canadian Border Service Agency workers says its members will begin job action across the country on Friday. The Public Service Alliance of Canada and its Cust...
Aug 04, 2021
Injured vets filing claims faster than officials can process them despite extra staff
OTTAWA - New figures from Veterans Affairs Canada show that despite adding hundreds of staff, injured ex-soldiers are still submitting claims for disability benefits faster than officials are processi...
Aug 04, 2021
Helping Wheels: Nanaimo Search and Rescue
NANAIMO - NanaimoNewsNOW is proud to announce August's Helping Wheels winner.In partnership with Nissan of Nanaimo and Nanaimo Mitsubishi, the winning non-profit each month will receive a $1,000 cash ...
Aug 04, 2021
After long delay due to global pandemic, CFL finally set to resume playing football
Commissioner Randy Ambrosie and the CFL are finally back in the football business. The CFL kicks off the '21 season Thursday night, its first action since the 2019 Grey Cup game. The league cancelled ...
Aug 04, 2021
Nunavut community of Qikiqtarjuaq to get long-awaited deepwater port
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The Baffin Island community of Qikiqtarjuaq will see a deepwater port built in its community after decades of lobbying the federal government. Infrastructure minister Catherine McKe...
Aug 04, 2021
Manitoba minister says residential schools meant to eliminate Indigenous people
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba cabinet minister who once defended some of the intentions behind residential schools now says they were part of a genocide. Alan Lagimodiere says former prime minister John A. Ma...
Aug 04, 2021
Conservatives raise twice as much as Liberals in first half of year as election looms
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives raised roughly twice as much money as the Liberals in the first half of 2021, lending them a cash advantage ahead of a likely fall election. Elections Canada filings...
Aug 04, 2021
Bo Levi Mitchell leads a Calgary Stampeders lineup with a lot of new faces
The Calgary Stampeders enter the CFL season with a healthy Bo Levi Mitchell, after taking time off during training camp to rest a sore groin, and a host of fresh faces. The first test of that new tale...
Aug 04, 2021