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Vin Scully wins Baseball Digest lifetime achievement award
NEW YORK (AP) - Vin Scully has won the second Lifetime Achievement Award presented by Baseball Digest. The longtime Dodgers announcer was honored Tuesday with an annual distinction that recognizes a l...
Apr 12, 2022
Two-time Canadian Olympic sprinter Desai Williams has died at age 62
TORONTO - Former Canadian sprinter Desai Williams died suddenly over the weekend at the age of 62 No official cause of death was given. Williams ran on Canada's 4x100-metre relay that won bronze at th...
Apr 12, 2022
Jurassic Park reopening on Saturday for Toronto Raptors playoff run
TORONTO - Jurassic Park will no longer be a lost world for Toronto Raptors fans. Scotiabank Arena is reopening its tailgate area in time for Saturday's playoff game between the Raptors and Philadelphi...
Apr 12, 2022
Job action suspended as Union and Vancouver Island Regional Library reach tentative agreement
NANAIMO - A stalemate between the BC General Employees Union (BCGEU) and Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) appears to be over.The union, representing nearly 50 librarians at a majority of VIRL ...
Apr 12, 2022
Federal housing budget a good start, more targeted support needed: Housing advocates
OTTAWA - Advocates say while the federal government's focus on housing affordability in the budget is promising, its measures could go further to help people in the most dire housing need. Emilie Coyl...
Apr 12, 2022
South Dakota attorney general impeached over fatal crash
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - The South Dakota House on Tuesday impeached the state's attorney general for his conduct surrounding a 2020 fatal car crash, rejecting the recommendation of a special investigative...
Apr 12, 2022
Jurors shown surveillance video montage of 2020 Quebec City Halloween stabbings
QUEBEC - Jurors in the trial of the man accused of using a sword to murder two people in Quebec City on Halloween night in 2020 are viewing video surveillance footage from the scene. Quebec City polic...
Apr 12, 2022
Unions look for details on federal budget pledge to ease access to training funding
OTTAWA - The head of the Canadian Labour Congress says she's worried that labour groups will be left out of talks over a federal pledge to let workers access skills training programs before they becom...
Apr 12, 2022
Film industry declined by 5 per cent in pandemic, Hollywood productions grew: report
OTTAWA - Canada's film and TV industry remained afloat at the height of the pandemic, experiencing only a five per cent slump in the number of productions between April 2020 and March last year. A new...
Apr 12, 2022
17 people die on central Island from toxic illicit drugs through first two months of 2022
NANAIMO - Island Health started 2022 heading in the wrong direction for drug toxicity rates.The health authority was the only one in B.C. to not show a decline in deaths in February related to toxic d...
Apr 12, 2022