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Registration opens for Loaves and Fishes Christmas food hamper
NANAIMO - A bit of snow for the mid-Island may have people thinking about the Christmas season already, including Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank personnel. Registration for their 2022 Christmas...
Nov 08, 2022

World Series, football dominate week's TV ratings
NEW YORK (AP) - Here are the 20 most-watched programs in prime-time television for the week of Oct. 31-Nov. 6, according to the Nielsen company. 1. NFL Football: Tennessee at Kansas City, NBC, 17.69 m...
Nov 08, 2022

First Nations and Inuit Policing Program expanding into Nunavut
IQALUIT, Nunavut - A national policing program aimed at serving Indigenous communities is expanding to Nunavut. Through the First Nations and Inuit Policing Program, new RCMP officers are to be hired ...
Nov 08, 2022

Canadian moguls king Mikael Kingsbury gears up to add to his records
The smell of competition in the air still gets Mikael Kingsbury's adrenalin pumping, even after years of winning everything there is to win in his sport. The world's most accomplished moguls skier is ...
Nov 08, 2022

Quebec religious symbols ban violates equality right that can't be overridden: lawyer
MONTREAL - Lawyers for groups opposing Quebec's religious symbols ban told the province's Appeal Court today that the law violates a constitutional gender equality provision that can't be overridden b...
Nov 08, 2022

Sex assault trial of ex-PQ member Harold LeBel begins
QUEBEC - The sex assault trial involving former Quebec politician Harold LeBel is underway at the courthouse in Rimouski, Que. LeBel, a former Parti Qubcois member of the legislature, has pleaded not ...
Nov 08, 2022

This year's World Series is 2nd-least watched on TV
LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Houston Astros' six-game victory over the Philadelphia Phillies finished as the second least-watched World Series on television. The six games averaged 11,784,000 on Fox, down 1.3...
Nov 08, 2022

MLS Cup final averages combined 2.155 million viewers
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles FC's victory over the Philadelphia Union on penalty kicks in the MLS Cup final was the second highest in the league's 27-year history for combined U.S. viewers. Saturday...
Nov 08, 2022

Former Pacific FC captain Jamar Dixon moves into CPL team's front office
Former captain Jamar Dixon has moved into the Pacific FC front office as the Canadian Premier League club's manager of football and player development. Dixon, 33, announced Sept. 30 that this would be...
Nov 08, 2022

Mountie pleads guilty to assault on student in Kelowna, B.C., during wellness check
KELOWNA, B.C. - An RCMP officer from Kelowna, B.C., has pleaded guilty to assaulting a nursing student during a wellness check in January 2020. Const. Lacy Browning pleaded guilty to one count of assa...
Nov 08, 2022