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Lobster dispute: RCMP release images of men near fish plant that was torched
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia RCMP released images today showing two men walking away from a fish plant on the same night it was burned to the ground amid an escalating dispute over an Indigenous lobster ...
Oct 30, 2020
Halloween Pumpkin Catapult
Look forward to the Halloween Pumpkin Catapult brought to you by the Junior Forest Wardens.All proceeds will be donated to Meadow Lake Lions Club.The fee is only $5 / Pumpkin.Bring your own CARVED Jac...
Oct 30, 2020
SJHL Season Schedule
Yhe Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League (SJHL) is interwoven into the social fabric of the province by representing twelve dynamic communities. Founded in 1968, the league comprised of 12 teams compete ...
Oct 30, 2020
Five Things about Canada's foreign-policy end run around Donald Trump
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne was recently pondering Canada's place in the world from his home in Shawinigan, Que., "the command centre of foreign policy, these days," a...
Oct 30, 2020
Trudeau names former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner as new consul general in Boston
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sending former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner to represent Canada as the country's consul general in Boston.Cuzner was an MP for Cape Breton for nearly 20 years but...
Oct 30, 2020
Winnipeg Jets sign defenceman Sami Niku to two-year, $1.45M contract
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Jets have signed defenceman Sami Niku to a two-year contract with an average annual value of US$725,000. The 24-year-old Finn played 17 games for the Jets last season and...
Oct 30, 2020
Class-action lawsuit in investment case can go ahead, Supreme Court rules
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a class-action suit over personal investments can proceed against a Montreal-based financial services firm. Between 2005 and 2007, Ronald Asselin purchased pr...
Oct 30, 2020
Group launches legal action against N.B. government for greater abortion access
FREDERICTON - A national civil liberties group has filed legal notice in the first stage of a suit against the New Brunswick for lack of access to abortion. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association ha...
Oct 30, 2020
Texas early voting exceeds total of all 2016 ballots
AUSTIN, Texas - Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016, an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country's most ...
Oct 30, 2020
Scientists link high levels of genetic material from virus in blood to severe COVID
HALIFAX - Canadian immunologists say they're finding telltale markers in patients' blood that help predict the severity of COVID-19 and could lead to more targeted treatments. David Kelvin, a Dalhousi...
Oct 30, 2020