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Canada's Henderson, Conners to team up at Grant Thornton Invitational
Canada's top-ranked men's and women's golfers are teaming up. Brooke Henderson and Corey Conners will be partners at the Grant Thornton Invitational. The unique event will see 16 LPGA and 16 PGA Tour ...
Aug 30, 2023

Head coach Keefe signs multi-year contract extension with Maple Leafs
TORONTO - Head coach Sheldon Keefe has signed a multi-year contract extension with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Terms of the deal were not announced. The 42-year-old was named Maple Leafs head coach on No...
Aug 30, 2023

Canadian Armed Forces doing away with mandatory duty to report policy
OTTAWA - The military's chief of professional conduct and culture says the Canadian Armed Forces will end its "inflexible and inhuman" mandatory reporting policy. Lt.-Gen. Jennie Carignan says members...
Aug 30, 2023

Wildfire threat in B.C. continues as winds pick up during stormy weather
Several major wildfires continue to burn out-of-control in British Columbia's Interior, where forecasted rain had been hoped to dampen blazes in parts of the Central Okanagan and the Shuswap. But Envi...
Aug 30, 2023

Police arrest two suspects in a canoe after gunshots reported
Members of the Meadow Lake Crime Reduction Team and the Beauval RCMP made two arrests and are seeking a third suspect after an attempted traffic stop turned into a flight from police on the water. On ...
Aug 30, 2023

Preliminary hearing postponed for Quebec man charged with killing 3 people with truck
AMQUI, Que. - A preliminary hearing for a Quebec man charged with killing three people with his truck has been postponed until January 2024. A spokesperson for the province's prosecutions office says ...
Aug 30, 2023

Trudeau to visit Indonesia, Singapore and India next week as Canada seeks trade deals
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is headed to Asia next week for a whirlwind tour of Indonesia, Singapore and India. The trip involves the G20 leaders' summit in New Delhi, and a focus on econom...
Aug 30, 2023

Credit for Parental Rights Policy Belongs to the People
"The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of Pattison Media and this site."Last spring, I raised concerns about the inabilit...
Aug 30, 2023

N.W.T. extends state of emergency, premier to tour Edmonton evacuation centre
YELLOWKNIFE - A state of emergency in the Northwest Territories has been extended until Sept. 11. The territorial government declared it on Aug. 15 as wildfires threatened several communities, includi...
Aug 30, 2023

White House says Putin and Kim Jong Un traded letters as Russia looks for munitions from North Korea
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Wednesday said that it has new intelligence that shows Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un have swapped letters as Russia looks to...
Aug 30, 2023