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McDonagh looks back at Leafs-Lightning series, talks new challenge with Predators
TORONTO - Ryan McDonagh was sitting in the same locker room where, eight months earlier, he celebrated another playoff series triumph - one that resigned the tortured team down the hall to another sou...
Jan 12, 2023
Canada's sports minister defends her integrity commissioner's complaint intake
Canada's sports minister defended the low intake of complaints by the new sports integrity commissioner and urged the country's sport bodies to sign onto the abuse-free sport program. Pascale St-Onge ...
Jan 12, 2023
Canada's Shapovalov feeling motivated after strong finish to 2022 season
Ending last season on a high has given Canada's Denis Shapovalov a little extra motivation as he looks ahead to the 2023 campaign. Shapovalov overcame a summer slump by reaching two ATP Tour event fin...
Jan 12, 2023
Local sunflower seeds being sold to benefit Ukrainian refugee families
Grande Prairie producer Ken Drysdale of Kendal Farms now has the seeds from his scenic sunflower field in 2022 on the shelves of local businesses, with all proceeds going to settled Ukrainians that fl...
Jan 12, 2023
Study: Exxon Mobil accurately predicted warming since 1970s
DENVER (AP) - Exxon Mobil's scientists were remarkably accurate in their predictions about global warming, even as the company made public statements that contradicted its own scientists' conclusions,...
Jan 12, 2023
Workers reported missing after explosion rocks propane facility north of Montreal
SAINT-ROCH-DE-L'ACHIGAN, Que. - Municipal officials say as many as four workers are missing after an explosion today at a propane facility in St-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Que. Stphanie Therrien, deputy direc...
Jan 12, 2023
Japanese PM Kishida visits Ottawa, asks for Canada's help on clean energy transition
OTTAWA - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is looking to Canada to help his country wean itself off fossil fuels from places like Russia. Kishida is in Ottawa today for his first visit as Japan's ...
Jan 12, 2023
Trial for former AHS official charged with sexual offences wraps up, decision set for next month
The trial for a former Alberta Health Services official has wrapped up and a decision is expected next month.The three-day trial wrapped up Thursday in Grande Prairie with closing arguments.In its pre...
Jan 12, 2023
Officer testifies in case of New York couple kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec
MONTREAL - A Quebec police officer told a trial today that a couple from Upstate New York were kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec in 2020 because of a drug deal involving their grandson. Investigator ...
Jan 12, 2023
B.C. creates $500 million fund to buy old rental buildings and protect tenants
BURNABY, B.C. - The British Columbia government says it will save rental homes and protect tenants from "housing speculators and profiteers" with the creation of a half-a-billion-dollar Rental Protect...
Jan 12, 2023