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Canadian Pacific Railway issues 72-hour lockout notice on Teamsters Canada
CALGARY - Close to 3,000 employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be off the job early Sunday morning. Calgary-based CP Rail said in a release Wednesday that it has issued 72-hour notice to th...
Mar 16, 2022
Eight more COVID-19 deaths reported, one more health facility outbreak in B.C.
VICTORIA - British Columbia is reporting another eight deaths due to COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 2,953. Hospitalization numbers continue to drop in the province, with 329 people in hospital W...
Mar 16, 2022
Two Ontario students survive Texas crash that killed nine
HOBBS, N.M. - Nine people have died in a fiery, head-on collision in West Texas, including six students and a coach from a New Mexico university who were returning home from a golf tournament, authori...
Mar 16, 2022
Suspects arrested in armed robbery in rural Qualicum Beach
QUALICUM BEACH - A home invasion in which the assailants allegedly threatened the victim with a weapon resulted in the arrest of two suspects hours later.Oceanside RCMP said Spencer Lee Schaeffer and ...
Mar 16, 2022
NHL Notebook: A look at how some NHL coaches navigate the looming trade deadline
Bruce Boudreau was running a recent practice when one of his players skated over for a chat. The Vancouver Canucks head coach assumed winger Conor Garland was going to ask him about trade speculation....
Mar 16, 2022
CRTC bans Russian state-run broadcaster RT from Canadian airwaves
OTTAWA - Canadian broadcasters are no longer allowed to distribute Russia's state-run broadcaster, RT, after the federal regulator found the programming has targeted Ukrainians during the ongoing Russ...
Mar 16, 2022
B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...
Mar 16, 2022
B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...
Mar 16, 2022
B.C. provincial data shows 23,000 people experienced homelessness in 2019
VICTORIA - British Columbia's housing minister says a new method for collecting data on homelessness is the first of its kind in Canada and will help the province tackle the issue. David Eby says the ...
Mar 16, 2022
Veteran Canadian offensive lineman Duvernay-Tardif hits NFL free-agent market
For the first time in his NFL career, Canadian offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a free agent. The six-foot-five, 321-pound Duvernay-Tardif hit the open market Wednesday afternoon as an unr...
Mar 16, 2022