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Croatia beats Japan in penalty shootout at World Cup
AL WAKRAH, Qatar (AP) - Croatia goalkeeper Dominik Livakovic saved three penalty kicks in his team's 3-1 win over Japan in a shootout at the World Cup on Monday, securing a return to the quarterfinals...
Dec 5, 2022
Phone & internet service returns to Gabriola Island after nearly a week of disruptions, power issues persist
GABRIOLA ISLAND - Life is beginning to return to normal for roughly 4,000 people after nearly a week without basic communications services on Gabriola Island.Crews from TELUS successfully re-establish...
Dec 5, 2022
Ottawa calls for project proposals that help internationally trained health workers
HALIFAX - The federal government says that in order to address major labour shortages in health care, it will put $90 million toward projects that remove barriers preventing qualified new Canadians fr...
Dec 5, 2022
'Coyote' takes home best feature, best performance awards at Whistler Film Festival
WHISTLER, B.C. - Montreal-educated filmmaker Katherine Jerkovic's movie "Coyote" was the big winner at the Whistler Film Festival. The film about a widower asked to take care of a grandson he didn't k...
Dec 5, 2022
Russia's Putin drives across repaired bridge to Crimea
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to boost Russian morale Monday by driving a vehicle across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb had damaged in October. Putin took the wheel of a M...
Dec 5, 2022
Redblacks fill out coaching staff, add Miles as defensive co-ordinator
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Redblacks have named Barron Miles as their defensive co-ordinator for the upcoming CFL season. Miles returns to the CFL as a defensive co-ordinator after he was fired, along with h...
Dec 5, 2022
Polytechnique announces 2022 Order of the White Rose scholarship recipient
MONTREAL - A Quebec environmental engineering student intent on researching solutions to the global climate crisis is the latest recipient of a $30,000 prize established in honour of the 14 women kill...
Dec 5, 2022
Canada imposes more sanctions in Haiti, targeting country's wealthiest people
OTTAWA - Canada is imposing more sanctions on Haitian elites it accuses of empowering gangs in the Caribbean country. The new sanctions freeze Canadian assets held by three of the country's wealthiest...
Dec 5, 2022
Emhoff to host Jewish leaders for discussion of antisemitism
WASHINGTON (AP) - Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, will host Jewish leaders this week to discuss a rise in antisemitism and efforts to fight hate in the United States. The Whi...
Dec 5, 2022
Richard Serra's art installation hard to miss in Qatar desert, once you get there
ZEKREET, QATAR - Art stands tall in the desert some 75 kilometres northwest of Doha. You need a rugged vehicle and no small resolve to find it, given signage is almost non-existent. The last few kilom...
Dec 5, 2022