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Transportation Safety Board removes helicopter from crash site in N.L.
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Members of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada have completed their work at the scene of a fatal helicopter crash in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Robinson R44 light uti...
Jul 24, 2020
Black box data of Ukraine plane shot down by Iran analysed by investigators
OTTAWA - Canada's Transportation Safety Board says a team of international investigators has completed a preliminary analysis of the data from the flight recorders of the Ukrainian passenger jet shot ...
Jul 24, 2020
Nanaimo Riptides stay afloat during COVID-19 shutdown of pool facilities
NANAIMO - Local, elite swimmers are still getting their laps in despite area pools shuttering due to the coronavirus pandemic.The Nanaimo Riptides swimming club has set up at Westwood Lake, running se...
Jul 24, 2020
Canfor earns $60.7 million in Q2 due to improved demand and prices
VANCOUVER - Canfor Corp. says its results turned positive in the second quarter on a large reversal of a writedown in its lumber operations due to improved demand and prices towards the end of the qua...
Jul 24, 2020
Barack Obama to appear on Michelle Obama's podcast debut
LOS ANGELES - The first guest of Michelle Obama's new podcast will have a familiar presidential voice: Barack Obama. The former United States president is expected to appear on "The Michelle Obama Pod...
Jul 24, 2020
Open fires banned again by Coastal Fire Centre, campfires still allowed for now
NANAIMO - Warmer, drier weather over the last couple of weeks along with little rain in the forecast is prompting the Coastal Fire Centre to prohibit open fires.Effective at noon on Friday, July 24, c...
Jul 24, 2020
AP-NORC poll: Optimism fades jobs lost to virus will return
WASHINGTON - Nearly half of Americans whose families experienced a layoff during the coronavirus pandemic now believe those jobs are lost forever, a new poll shows, as temporary cutbacks give way to s...
Jul 24, 2020
Goldman Sachs in $3.9B settlement with Malaysia over 1MDB
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Goldman Sachs has reached a $3.9B settlement with Malaysia over the 1MDB sovereign wealth fund that was used to launder money. Malaysian and U.S. prosecutors had alleged that ...
Jul 24, 2020
NHLers ready for awkward bubble moments: 'I don't think it'll be too friendly"
Tuukka Rask doesn't expect any problems living under the same roof as his rivals. He's not so sure about everyone else. "I don't have too many enemies in the league because you're a goalie and you're ...
Jul 24, 2020
Canada's Walker content with waiting for Hall of Fame induction ceremony
Larry Walker has been waiting 10 years to get into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. And he's fine with waiting one more. Walker, the 1997 National League MVP from Maple Ridge, B.C., was to be enshr...
Jul 24, 2020