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Majority of Nanaimo Council candidates pushing for more City resources to combat addictions challenges
NANAIMO - What are Nanaimo's biggest challenges, and how should the next Mayor and Council tackle them?In advance of the 2022 Municipal Election, NanaimoNewsNOW surveyed the 33 candidates vying for Ma...
Oct 03, 2022
Iran's supreme leader breaks silence on protests, blames US
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei responded publicly on Monday to the biggest protests in Iran in years, breaking weeks of silence to condemn what he call...
Oct 03, 2022
Quebec votes, sex workers challenging Criminal Code : In The News for Oct. 3
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 3 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Oct 03, 2022
Quebec votes: Quebecers head to the polls for province's general election
MONTREAL - Quebecers are heading to the polls today after a five-week provincial election campaign dominated by issues such as immigration, the environment and the rising cost of living. Polls have su...
Oct 03, 2022
Sex workers challenging criminal laws in court, citing Charter violation
OTTAWA - An alliance of sex worker rights groups is in Ontario Superior Court today asking for several sections of the Criminal Code to be deemed unconstitutional. The Canadian Alliance for Sex Work L...
Oct 03, 2022
Nobel panel to announce winner of medicine prize
STOCKHOLM (AP) - The winner, or winners, of the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine will be announced Monday at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Among the researchers who may be honore...
Oct 02, 2022
Hughes wins Sanderson Farms with birdie on 2nd playoff hole
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Whether it was sheer confidence or remarkable resilience, Mackenzie Hughes never doubted he would win the Sanderson Farms Championship. He just never imagined how it would unfold...
Oct 02, 2022
Dominant Raptors feed off crowd to beat Jazz 114-82 in pre-season debut
EDMONTON - The Toronto Raptors opened their exhibition season on Sunday by being simply dominant in their Canadian home away from home. Pre-season or not, holding an NBA team - even one that is in reb...
Oct 02, 2022
VIDEO: 'Tour de Tan Lines' rolls into Nanaimo
NANAIMO - It's been so hot, so sunny for this year's Tour de Rock ride down Vancouver Island, participants are campaigning for a new name.Riders for the annual Cops for Cancer fundraiser, which has ra...
Oct 02, 2022
Canadian Mackenzie Hughes wins Sanderson Farms Championship in two-hole playoff
JACKSON, Miss. - Mackenzie Hughes of Hamilton, Ont. and Sepp Straka of Vienna, Austria battled in an intense playoff Sunday at the Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, Mississippi. Both golfers fi...
Oct 02, 2022