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Sellers' market worrisome for some renters
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Some homeowners in the city are taking advantage of a strong sellers' market. According to the Medicine Hat Real Estate Board, a single-family detached home was listed at $331,936 o...
Apr 28, 2022
Women's rugby 7s side back competing on home soil after tumultuous year off the field
The Canadian women's rugby sevens team returns to action on home soil this weekend, almost a year to the day that coach John Tait stepped down in the wake of an independent review into a complaint fro...
Apr 28, 2022
House passes military lend-lease bill to speed Ukraine aid
WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. House gave final passage Thursday to legislation that would streamline a World War II-era military lend-lease program to more quickly provide Ukraine and other Eastern Europ...
Apr 28, 2022
Fuel reduction burns happening at CFB Suffield
Officials at Canadian Forces Base Suffield will be conducting fuel reduction burns on the base over the next few days.A Facebook post on the base page says the burns will happen along a few select rou...
Apr 28, 2022
N.L.'s Quidi Vidi village drops 'plantation' from building name ahead of royal visit
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A historic fishing neighbourhood in Newfoundland and Labrador's capital is renaming of one its buildings less than a month ahead of a visit by Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, ...
Apr 28, 2022
Info watchdog raps Justice Department over six-year access to information extension
OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog says the Justice Department should not have told an MP it would take six years to respond to his request for documents about plans to ensure online platforms ...
Apr 28, 2022
Football Canada president optimistic sport has weathered COVID-19 storm
Football Canada president Jim Mullin is "cautiously optimistic" the amateur game in Canada has weathered the COVID-19 storm. The global pandemic shut down much of the sport in this country the last tw...
Apr 28, 2022
Poilievre's populism sees him vow to audit the Bank of Canada, ban digital currency
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Pierre Poilievre took his campaign against Canada's central bank to its doors Thursday, vowing to have it audited and to bar it from using its own digital cu...
Apr 28, 2022
Hockey fans and personalities attend funeral for Hall of Famer Mike Bossy
SAINTE-THRSE, Que. - Hundreds of fans, hockey personalities and journalists paid their last respects to Hockey Hall of Famer Mike Bossy today at a funeral service north of Montreal. Bossy, a leader of...
Apr 28, 2022
Supreme Court to examine First Nation's residency rule for council members
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will review a rule that requires members of a tiny First Nation in the Arctic Circle to live in the community if they want to serve on its council. Cindy Dickson h...
Apr 28, 2022