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BC Wildfire Service battling out-of-control blaze; Highway 97 partially closed
PEACHLAND, B.C. - The BC Wildfire Service was fighting an out-of-control blaze in the province's southern Interior on Monday that prompted the partial closure of a major highway. It says the Log Jam w...
Jun 28, 2021
Fans seeking scarce Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup tickets face hefty prices
MONTREAL - Fans looking to secure tickets to a Montreal Canadiens game during the Stanley Cup finals should be ready to fork over a small fortune. Only 3,500 tickets per game were available as of Mond...
Jun 28, 2021
Fans seeking scarce Montreal Canadiens Stanley Cup tickets face hefty prices
MONTREAL - Fans looking to secure tickets to a Montreal Canadiens game during the Stanley Cup finals should be ready to fork over a small fortune. Only 3,500 tickets per game were available as of Mond...
Jun 28, 2021
Montreal Canadiens' NHL playoffs run provides boost for Rogers Sports & Media
TORONTO - While Montreal Canadiens fans are stoked to see their team's first Stanley Cup final series since 1993, it could be just as exciting for Rogers Sports and Media. Rogers paid about $5.2 billi...
Jun 28, 2021
Veteran Roughriders O-lineman Brendon LaBatte sitting out 2021 CFL season: GM
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders will be without veteran offensive lineman Brendon LaBatte for the 2021 CFL season. Riders general manager Jeremy O'Day says LaBatte has opted out for the year but...
Jun 28, 2021
80-year-old Nanaimo temperature record barely survives sweltering weekend
NANAIMO - A suffocating heat wave across a majority of B.C. is setting new records in Nanaimo, while also threatening a long standing all-time high.Nanaimo Airport recorded four consecutive heat recor...
Jun 28, 2021
Canadian Vasek Pospisil advances to second round at Wimbledon
LONDON - Canada's Vasek Pospisil is heading to the second round at Wimbledon. Pospisil, from Vancouver, beat Spain's Roberto Carballes Baena 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 in the opening round of the grass-court Grand...
Jun 28, 2021
Ethiopia declares immediate, unilateral cease-fire in Tigray
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Ethiopia's government on Monday declared an immediate, unilateral cease-fire in its Tigray region after nearly eight months of deadly conflict and as hundreds of thousands of peo...
Jun 28, 2021
O'Toole pitches Conservatives as Canada Day defenders as more celebrations cancelled
OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada is positioning itself as the defender of Canada Day, as more communities decide to skip celebrations out of respect for First Nations discovering unmarked bur...
Jun 28, 2021
U.K. study reports mixing AstraZeneca, Pfizer vaccines produces better immunity
OTTAWA - A vaccine study in the United Kingdom reports that getting a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine four weeks after a dose of Oxford-AstraZeneca produced a much stronger immune response than tw...
Jun 28, 2021