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Cancelled season just the latest financial challenge for CFL
Financial challenges are nothing new for the CFL. The league has faced problems across the country - and even in the United States in the 1990s - many times the past few decades. While thing...
Aug 17, 2020
In 'The 24th,' police brutality and unrest, 103 years ago
NEW YORK - The sole photograph related to the Houston Riot of 1917 shows 64 Black soldiers sitting with arms folded and legs crossed behind a rope. Their sheer number, in a courtroom otherwise populat...
Aug 17, 2020
Police called when B.C. little league finds it bank accounts emptied of $230,000
COQUITLAM, B.C. - A little league baseball club in Metro Vancouver says it has contacted RCMP after discovering hundreds of thousands of dollars missing from its accounts. A statement posted by the pr...
Aug 17, 2020
County announces road construction & road closures in La Glace and Clairmont
Starting on August 19, a section of Range Road 83 north of La Glace will temporarily close for a bridge replacement. Range Road 83 from Township Road 744 to Township Road 750 will be closed to traffic...
Aug 17, 2020
Barcelona fires coach Setién 3 days after 8-2 loss to Bayern
BARCELONA, Spain - Barcelona fired coach Quique Setin on Monday, three days after the team's humiliating 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The decision was announ...
Aug 17, 2020
2 men indicted in 2002 killing of Run-DMC's Jam Master Jay
NEW YORK - Two suspects have been indicted in the 2002 killing of hip hop artist Jam Master Jay, which until now had been one of New York City's most notorious unsolved killings, two law enforcement o...
Aug 17, 2020
NewsAlert: New Brunswick election called for Sept. 14
FREDERICTON - Premier Blaine Higgs has called an election in New Brunswick for Sept. 14. It will be the first province to go to the polls since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Higgs threatened la...
Aug 17, 2020
NewsAlert: New Brunswick election called for Sept. 14
FREDERICTON - Premier Blaine Higgs has called an election in New Brunswick for Sept. 14. It will be the first province to go to the polls since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Higgs threatened la...
Aug 17, 2020
Outbreak of COVID-19 linked to event in County of Northern Lights
FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. - The health authority in northern British Columbia has issued an alert after more than a dozen people tested positive for COVID-19.The alert says the outbreak is linked to a relig...
Aug 17, 2020
Lawsuit to challenge Quebec back-to-school plan requiring in-person attendance
MONTREAL - A lawyer representing a group of Quebec parents says he's moving forward with a legal challenge aimed at forcing the province to offer remote learning for ...
Aug 17, 2020