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CFL releases 2023 season schedule with new twist
The CFL has released its 2023 season schedule on Tuesday, with a bit of a twist. For the first time since 2008, divisional playoff games are set to be played on Saturdays, with the semifinals taking p...
Dec 13, 2022
Any two athletes can compete together domestically in ice dance, pairs: Skate Canada
OTTAWA - Skate Canada has updated its policies so that ice dance or pairs teams competing domestically can be composed of any two athletes. Canada's governing body of figure skating announced Tuesday ...
Dec 13, 2022
Scientists declare 2 Hawaii volcanoes have stopped erupting
HONOLULU (AP) - U.S. scientists declared Tuesday that two active Hawaii volcanoes - one where lava destroyed hundreds of homes in 2018 and another where lava recently stalled before reaching a crucial...
Dec 13, 2022
US poised to approve Patriot missile battery for Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. is poised to approve sending a Patriot missile battery to Ukraine, finally agreeing to an urgent request from Ukrainian leaders desperate for more robust weapons to shoot do...
Dec 13, 2022
8 in France convicted of roles in Bastille Day truck attack
PARIS (AP) - A French court on Tuesday convicted eight people charged in connection with a truck attack more than six years ago by an Islamic State sympathizer that killed 86 people celebrating Bastil...
Dec 13, 2022
CRA should warn benefits applicants about risk of clawbacks: Taxpayers' watchdog
OTTAWA - Taxpayers' Ombudsperson Franois Boileau says the Canada Revenue Agency should warn Canadians applying for benefits about the risk of potential clawbacks to other income supports. Boileau reco...
Dec 13, 2022
Trade Minister Mary Ng broke ethics rules over contract to friend, commissioner rules
OTTAWA - The federal conflict of interest and ethics commissioner says Trade Minister Mary Ng broke the rules when her office awarded a contract to one of her friends. Commissioner Mario Dion released...
Dec 13, 2022
Alberta drivers paying more than other Canadians to insure vehicles: report
A new report finds Alberta drivers are paying much more to insure their vehicles.The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia commissioned accounting firm Ernst and Young to look into the issue and c...
Dec 13, 2022
Eastbound traffic on Spencer Street reduced to one lane this week
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Traffic flow will be reduced on a busy Medicine Hat thoroughfare for two days this week.Eastbound traffic on Spencer Street SE between the Dunmore Road/Kingsway Avenue intersection ...
Dec 13, 2022
Focus turns to financing in final days of global biodiversity conference
MONTREAL - Negotiators at a global conference on saving the world's biodiversity are sharpening their focus on how to pay for it, as environment ministers from around the globe converge in Montreal fo...
Dec 13, 2022