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Canada's Gilgeous-Alexander named NBA Western Conference player of the week
Canadian basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been named the NBA's Western Conference player of the week. The Oklahoma City guard from Hamilton averaged 31.3 points, on 57.1 per cent shooting, ...
Feb 13, 2023
Totem at Royal B.C. Museum on way home to Central Coast after repatriation ceremony
VICTORIA - A totem pole taken from an Indigenous village on British Columbia's Central Coast more than 100 years ago is on its way home after a repatriation ceremony at the Royal B.C. Museum, where it...
Feb 13, 2023
Photojournalist, news organization file lawsuit against RCMP over 2021 arrest
VANCOUVER - Canadian photojournalist Amber Bracken and news organization the Narwhal have filed a lawsuit against the RCMP, claiming Bracken was wrongfully arrested and detained for three nights while...
Feb 13, 2023
Premiers agree to accept new federal health-care funding offer
Manitoba Premier Heather Stefanson says the premiers have agreed to accept the health-care funding deal offered to them by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, although they say it is far less than they wan...
Feb 13, 2023
B.C. park site of Chinese-style matchmaking, as parents seek wedded bliss for kids
BURNABY, B.C. - In a corner of a park in Metro Vancouver, the hunt for marital bliss is on. Groups of middle-aged and elderly Chinese pass around their smartphones or photos plucked from wallets, smil...
Feb 13, 2023
Jays begin early training camp, keen to make strides after wild-card exit last fall
DUNEDIN, Fla. - Feelings of optimism, joy and excitement were ever-present Monday at the Toronto Blue Jays' player development complex as a couple dozen players kicked off spring training ahead of the...
Feb 13, 2023
New federal telecom policy will require CRTC to enact rules to improve competition
OTTAWA - The final version of a new telecom policy directive first unveiled by the federal government in May of last year is now in force. The government's new directive to the Canadian Radio-televisi...
Feb 13, 2023
Leave use of notwithstanding clause up to provinces, say Conservative and Bloc MPs
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives joined the Bloc Qubcois to try and send a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that it is up to the provinces to decide how to use the notwithstanding clause. Bl...
Feb 13, 2023
UN says Syria agrees to open 2 new crossings for quake aid
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Syria's president has agreed to open two new crossing points from Turkey to the country's rebel-held northwest to deliver desperately needed aid and equipment fon millions of ear...
Feb 13, 2023
Player Jim Rutledge and writer Robert Stanley Weir to join Canadian Golf Hall of Fame
Jim Rutledge was mowing his lawn in Victoria when Ted Fletcher, chair of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame's selection committee, gave him a call. Rutledge and reporter Robert Stanley Weir would be the n...
Feb 13, 2023