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B.C. premier raises concerns to prime minister about job impact of fish farm closures
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier John Horgan has written a letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau saying federal salmon farm transition plans threaten hundreds of jobs and the economies of coastal...
Mar 16, 2022

WATCH: Copping, Hinshaw to provide COVID-19 update
Coming up at 3:30 p.m.Health Minister Jason Copping and chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw provide an update on COVID-19.
Mar 16, 2022

Veteran Canadian offensive lineman Duvernay-Tardif hits NFL free-agent market
For the first time in his NFL career, Canadian offensive lineman Laurent Duvernay-Tardif is a free agent. The six-foot-five, 321-pound Duvernay-Tardif hit the open market Wednesday afternoon as an unr...
Mar 16, 2022

Adjournment for Coutts border protesters charged with conspiracy to commit murder
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Four men charged with conspiracy to commit murder after arrests at last month's border blockade in Coutts made brief court appearances in Lethbridge on Tuesday.Christopher Lysak, Chri...
Mar 16, 2022

Canada's Maddie Szeryk and Jaclyn Lee using Epson Tour event to ramp up golf season
A handful of Canada's best women golfers are looking to get into the swing of things this week on the Epson Tour. Six Canadians will tee off at the Carlisle Arizona Women's Golf Classic on Thursday, t...
Mar 16, 2022

Canada's Bennedict Mathurin has had long, interesting road to NCAA stardom
Bennedict Mathurin has led the way for a resurgent University of Arizona Wildcats men's basketball team that is ready to hit the dance floor at the 2022 NCAA Tournament. The 19-year-old sophomore guar...
Mar 16, 2022

Brian Jean wasting no time in campaign to oust Jason Kenney as UCP leader
EDMONTON - Alberta's newest legislature member, Brian Jean, is expected to meet up with his United Conservative colleagues later this week and take the next step in his campaign to get Premier Jason K...
Mar 16, 2022

Sage Watson chosen as YMCA's 2022 Strong Kids Campaign Ambassador
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Athlete, two-time Olympian and now YMCA ambassador. Sage Watson's list of titles keeps growing.The Seven Persons track star has been named the YMCA of Medicine Hat's 2022 Strong Kid...
Mar 16, 2022

Olympic champion women's soccer squad bringing celebration tour to West Coast
VANCOUVER - Canada Soccer has announced that the country's gold medal-winning women's soccer team will face Nigeria in a pair of games in British Columbia next month. The two-match series is part of t...
Mar 16, 2022

Canada cheers U.S. effort to abolish 'spring forward, fall back' daylight time ritual
WASHINGTON - A giddy Massachusetts senator, clapping his hands and dancing with delight in the shadow of a sun-drenched U.S. Capitol, isn't something one sees every day. But doing away with the annoyi...
Mar 16, 2022