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Pan Am Games protesters each get 12 months of probation
DENVER - The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has handed down 12-month probations to the athletes who protested on the medals stand at the Pan American Games. In letters of reprimand sent Tuesday...
Aug 20, 2019
Court approves release of video, affidavits ahead of Huawei executive's trial
VANCOUVER - A senior B.C. Supreme Court judge has agreed with what she calls a "somewhat unusual" request to provide documents and a video directly to media ahead of an extradition hearing for Hu...
Aug 20, 2019
Workers escorted away during Border Services probe at Vancouver horse track
VANCOUVER - Several people were removed form a Vancouver horse racing track this week as part of an investigation by the Canada Border Services Agency. Border services agents arrived at...
Aug 20, 2019
Australian court upholds cardinal's child sex convictions
MELBOURNE, Australia - An Australian court has upheld convictions against the most senior Catholic to be found guilty of children sex abuse. The Victoria state Court of Appeal by a 2-1 majority ruling...
Aug 20, 2019
Cowboys' Elliott won't face criminal charge in Vegas scuffle
LAS VEGAS - Dallas Cowboys star running back Ezekiel Elliott won't face criminal charges after scuffling with a music festival security guard in Las Vegas. Prosecutor Steve Wolfson said Tuesday the fi...
Aug 20, 2019
Ray Mitsuing hangs up the reigns after three decades of wagon racing
Ray Mitsuing ended his 30-plus year chuckwagon career in Lloydminster this weekend.The 65-year-old wrapped the 2019 Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association (CPCA) season with a safe driver award ...
Aug 20, 2019 Ray Mitsuing retired from driving chuck wagons this past weekend. The 65 year old is the most decorated driver in the CPCA after a 37 year long career. (file photo/meadowlakeNOW staff)
Henderson back to defend CP Women's Open title, 12-year-old Liu also in field
AURORA, Ont. - Brooke Henderson remembers being rather star-struck when she made her first appearance at the CP Women's Open. It's a feeling that fellow Canadian Michelle Liu is ex...
Aug 20, 2019
Trump acknowledges China polices may mean US economic pain
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump acknowledged Tuesday his aggressive China trade policies may mean economic pain for Americans but insisted they're needed for more important long-term benefits. He ...
Aug 20, 2019
Online mental wellness class the first of its kind in Saskatchewan
Students heading back to school this season will have the opportunity to take a new online class to better their mental health.The Sun West Distance Learning Centre in Kenaston is ready to launch its ...
Aug 20, 2019 (File photo/ CJME News Staff)
LA Opera names lawyer to lead Placido Domingo investigation
SAN FRANCISCO - Los Angeles Opera said Tuesday it will immediately open a 'thorough and independent investigation' into allegations of sexual harassment against the opera star Placido Domingo, the com...
Aug 20, 2019