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Emergencies Act could freeze protest trucks out of area around Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - Invoking the Emergencies Act could allow the federal government to forbid more large trucks from rolling into the gridlocked area around Parliament Hill. Security expert Wesley Wark says decl...
Feb 14, 2022
Christian Eriksen marks 30th birthday by playing game again
LONDON (AP) - Christian Eriksen celebrated his 30th birthday on Monday with his first game action since suffering cardiac arrest at the European Championship. The Denmark playmaker featured in a pract...
Feb 14, 2022
Ontario fast-tracks easing restrictions, Sask starts day without vaccine mandate
Ontario ramped up plans to drop a raft of COVID-19 restrictions, including the province's vaccine certificate system, while Alberta schools opened Monday without mask mandates for children. Saskatchew...
Feb 14, 2022
Second degree murder charge laid in Nanaimo coffee shop homicide
NANAIMO - A single charge has been laid after a man was found dead inside Buzz Coffee House on Rutherford Rd.The BC Prosecution Service confirmed James Carey Turok was charged with second degree murde...
Feb 14, 2022
Ottawa mayor pushes to shrink convoy footprint, as feds eye action
Ottawa's mayor has set a deadline of noon today for truckers encamped in the capital's core to move out of residential streets in a bid to pare down the size of the protest's footprint. Mayor Jim Wats...
Feb 14, 2022
Altidore departure from Toronto and arrival in New England finally confirmed
TORONTO - After months in limbo with Toronto FC, star striker Jozy Altidore's move to the New England Revolution was finally confirmed Monday. One minute after TFC issued a statement saying it had bou...
Feb 14, 2022
Jury seated in hate crimes trial in Ahmaud Arbery killing
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A jury has been seated in the federal hate crimes trial of three white men who were convicted of murdering Ahmaud Arbery. Twelve jurors and four alternates were selected Monday fr...
Feb 14, 2022
Democrats sue to overturn new Kansas congressional districts
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Democrats sued Kansas officials on Monday over a Republican redistricting law that costs the state's only Democrat in Congress some of the territory in her Kansas City-area distric...
Feb 14, 2022
Pakistani court acquits model's killer on parents' pardon
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - A Pakistani man sentenced to life in prison in 2019 for strangling his sister, a model on social media, was acquitted of murder Monday after his parents pardoned him under Isla...
Feb 14, 2022
Non profit adapts to chip away at Nanaimo's affordable housing crisis
NANAIMO -Through the roof land and construction prices ushered a renewed, leaner approach for Habitat 4 Humanity and its new regional executive director.Under the guidance of Jeff Krafta, the organiza...
Feb 14, 2022