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Rowan Barrett: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's MVP win will help basketball in Canada
There's no telling what Shai Gilgeous-Alexander's NBA MVP Award will do for basketball in Canada. Gilgeous-Alexander was named the league's most valuable player on Wednesday, after the Oklahoma City T...
May 21, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander named NBA MVP
Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has been named the NBA's most valuable player. The 26-year-old from Hamilton is the second Canadian to receive the award, following Steve Nash's win...
May 21, 2025

Most books pulled from Naval Academy library are back on the shelves in latest DEI turn
WASHINGTON (AP) - All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves after the new...
May 21, 2025

BC Peace MP included in Conservative Shadow Cabinet
The Member of Parliament that represents the BC Peace has been named to the Conservative Shadow Cabinet.Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies MP Bob Zimmer will serve as the Shadow Minister for A...
May 21, 2025

Canada's Aphrodite Deng learns from Nelly Korda at junior golf event
Aphrodite Deng got to live out the dream of every competitive golfer, playing two rounds with the best in the world and excelling on the course, and she's just 15 years old. Deng played alongside Nell...
May 21, 2025

Bipartisan Senate resolution introduced to recognize Canada-U.S. partnership
WASHINGTON - A resolution with bipartisan support was introduced in the United States Senate today to recognize the U.S.-Canada partnership, a relationship badly strained by President Donald Trump's t...
May 21, 2025

Fire at historic Black church in Memphis was intentionally set, investigators say
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - A fire that severely damaged a historic Black church that served as the headquarters for a 1968 sanitation workers' strike, which brought the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to Memph...
May 21, 2025

County of Grande Prairie downgrades fire ban
After being under a fire ban for over two weeks (May 5), the County of Grande Prairie has now downgraded the ban to a restriction. County Fire Chief Trevor Grant credited the downgrade to "light rainf...
May 21, 2025

New crop report says seeding completion over 25 per cent in the Peace
The May 13 crop report from Alberta Agriculture and AFSC says 26.6 per cent of the crop in the Peace had been seeded by that date.Progress had been at just under 10 per cent as of May 6.The five-year ...
May 21, 2025

Tottenham beats Man United to win Europa League title and end long trophy drought
BILBAO, Spain (AP) - Tottenham beat Manchester United 1-0 to win the Europa League final and lift its first European trophy in more than four decades on Wednesday. It is the first major title for Tott...
May 21, 2025