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Top earners pay more in B.C. budget that includes record capital spending
VICTORIA - Top income earners and pop drinkers were hit with new taxes in Tuesday's B.C. budget, which continues the government's focus on capital spending for schools, hospitals and transit...
Feb 20, 2020
Oshawa Generals, Soo Greyhounds set to bid for 2021 Memorial Cup
TORONTO - The Oshawa Generals and Soo Greyhounds will make formal bid presentations to host the 2021 Memorial Cup. The Ontario Hockey League announced Thursday that the Generals and Greyhounds&nb...
Feb 20, 2020
Freeland blasts Tories, but thanks NDP for support on pushing new NAFTA forward
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has offered effusive thanks to New Democrats and stinging criticism of the Conservatives after the NDP supported the minority Liberal government's effo...
Feb 20, 2020
Province announces cost-sharing agreement in place to twin Highway 40
The Alberta government announced a cost-sharing agreement Thursday with the M.D. of Greenview and County of Grande Prairie to twin a 19-kilometre stretch of Highway 40. The province says the agreement...
Feb 20, 2020 Photo: Shaun Penner
Government needs to produce plan for dealing with veterans' backlog: Ombudsman
OTTAWA - Veterans ombudsman Craig Dalton says the federal government should clearly explain how it plans to eliminate a backlog that is keeping thousands of former service members waiting to find out ...
Feb 20, 2020
Boeser expected to miss rest of regular season with rib cartilage fracture
VANCOUVER - Jim Benning has had enough of watching other teams compete in the Stanley Cup playoffs. On Monday, the Vancouver Canucks general manager tried to boost his team's chances of reaching the p...
Feb 20, 2020
Province making changes to physician compensation
The Alberta government is making major changes to how it pays doctors.After recent contract talks with doctors failed, Health Minister Tyler Shandro says the government is ending its master agreement ...
Feb 20, 2020 Health Minister Tyler Shandro (The Canadian Press)
Saskatchewan and British Columbia reach championship round at Scotties
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Host Saskatchewan is moving on to the championship round at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. Robyn Silvernagle secured the final spot in Pool A with a 9-7 victory over N...
Feb 20, 2020
Unreleased report finds stop checks, searches of protesters 'unlawful': Watchdog
VANCOUVER - A civilian police watchdog has released what Indigenous advocates in support of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs are calling an "explosive" letter condemning RCMP actions against In...
Feb 20, 2020
Fort St. John RCMP warn of scam phone calls directed targets to Grande Prairie
Fort St John RCMP have received dozens of calls over the last two days reporting a phone scam that is directing people to Grande Prairie to turn their money into bitcoin.The scam consists of victims r...
Feb 20, 2020