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Judge authorizes plan to transform six Quebec dailies into employee cooperatives
MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a plan that transforms six insolvent regional French-language newspapers across the province into employee cooperatives and reduces pen...
Dec 23, 2019
Company seeks injunction: Co-op, union in court over pickets at Regina refinery
REGINA - A nearly three-week labour dispute between a Saskatchewan petroleum refinery and hundreds of its workers moved from the picket line into the courtroom Monday, with the company seeking an inju...
Dec 23, 2019
Clippers weekend wrap: Dec. 20-21
NANAIMO - The Clippers went in to their 2019 Christmas break with a share of first place in the Island Division.A home and home series with the Grizzlies wrapped up the unofficial first half of the BC...
Dec 23, 2019 Nanaimo beat Victoria 5-0 but lost to the Grizzlies 5-4 in OT in a home and home series. (Gary Dorland)
Meet Cali, looking to be the star of the show
NANAIMO - Cali is a beautiful eight year old Calico cat, ready for adoption at the Nanaimo and District SPCA.She's a little shy at first but quickly warms up and is very affectionate.She will do well ...
Dec 23, 2019
Chinese embassy takes swipe at 'some politicians' over talk of freeing Canadians
OTTAWA - The Chinese embassy is taking a swing at "some Canadian politicians" over what it describes as "erroneous remarks" about the relationship between the two countries and the cases of two Canadi...
Dec 23, 2019
N.S. sawmills seeking new markets in wake of announced Northern Pulp closure
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia sawmill operators say their outlook after the closure of Northern Pulp is one of troubling uncertainties and, so far, few answers from the provincial government&nb...
Dec 23, 2019
Conservative party's fundraising boss takes over temporary helm of party
OTTAWA - The director of fundraising for the federal Conservatives has taken over as acting director of the party as it continues to grapple with the fallout from the resignation of leader Andrew Sche...
Dec 23, 2019
Bump in low-income rates expected as StatCan sets to redraw poverty line
OTTAWA - The national statistics office is looking at changes to the federally adopted poverty line which, if approved, could mean more people are considered to live below the low-income threshold. Th...
Dec 23, 2019
A look at some of the players to watch at the world junior hockey championship
The 2020 world junior hockey championship starts Thursday in Ostrava and Trinec, Czech Republic. The Canadian Press takes a look at some of the players to watch at this year's under-20 tournament. &nb...
Dec 23, 2019
2019 a year of women in hockey flexing collective muscle for a pro league
The women's hockey landscape didn't just tilt in 2019. It was turned upside down and shaken like a Polaroid picture. From the folding of the Canadian Women's Hockey League to the upending of the estab...
Dec 23, 2019