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From chemical burns to a logging truck crash, RCMP describe events at Fairy Creek
LAKE COWICHAN, B.C. - It's been an eventful week for Mounties and protesters in the Fairy Creek area of southern Vancouver Island that included an exploded can of bear spray and an RCMP crash involvin...
Nov 12, 2021
Riders prepare to brave elements in showdown with visiting Elks
REGINA - When it comes to playing football in cold weather, CFL head coaches Craig Dickenson and Jaime Elizondo agree that it's a case of mind over matter. Dickenson's Saskatchewan Roughriders and Eli...
Nov 12, 2021
Alouettes need win against Blue Bombers team that will rest some players
MONTREAL - The Montreal Alouettes are facing the team with the best record in the CFL on Saturday - but it won't quite be the Winnipeg Blue Bombers that have dominated all year. Montreal needs to win ...
Nov 12, 2021
Remembrance Day gatherings disrupted in British Columbia
A lawyer says he and his two young daughters left what he thought was a Remembrance Day ceremony In Kamloops after it turned out to be a protest against British Columbia's vaccine mandate. Jay Michi s...
Nov 12, 2021
NHL suspends Canucks' Poolman for two games for high sticking Avs' Sherwood
NEW YORK - The NHL has suspended Vancouver Canucks defenceman Tucker Poolman for two games for high-sticking Colorado Avalanche forward Kiefer Sherwood. The incident took place in the third period of ...
Nov 12, 2021
Remembrance Day gatherings disrupted in British Columbia
A lawyer says he and his two young daughters left what he thought was a Remembrance Day ceremony In Kamloops after it turned out to be a protest against British Columbia's vaccine mandate. Jay Michi s...
Nov 12, 2021
Bannon indicted on contempt charges for defying 1/6 subpoena
MARKS, Miss. (AP) - Steve Bannon, a longtime ally to former President Donald Trump, was indicted Friday on two counts of contempt of Congress after he defied a congressional subpoena from the House co...
Nov 12, 2021
Alberta deletes Nazi 'both sides' reference in decades-old school guidance document
EDMONTON - The Alberta government is deleting a decades-old reference in a curriculum guidance paper that urges teachers to focus on positive and negative aspects of the Nazi Germany regime. Education...
Nov 12, 2021
Man who went to space with Shatner dies in plane crash
HAMPTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) - A man who traveled to space with William Shatner last month was killed along with another person when the small plane they were in crashed in a wooded area of northern Ne...
Nov 12, 2021
Australian-born forward Corey Thomas relishes time with Canadian rugby team
A meeting at the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan set Australian-born forward Corey Thomas on the path to representing Canada. Thomas was playing club rugby in Kamaishi where Canada was due to play Namib...
Nov 12, 2021