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Vancouver housing strategies abound, but will a fractured council hinder next mayor?
VANCOUVER - Voters in Vancouver's municipal election have been met with an array of proposed solutions to the city's chronic housing unaffordability - but the same question looms over all the mayoral ...
Oct 12, 2022
Invasion of the stink bugs: Pest thrives in British Columbia's warm October
VANCOUVER - An aromatic insect shaped like a shield is lurking around homes and feasting on stone fruits in parts of southern British Columbia. The brown marmorated stink bug, an invasive species in C...
Oct 12, 2022
Hurricane hunter who flew into the eye of Fiona describes 'very challenging' storm
FREDERICTON - Kevin Doremus says the eyes of hurricanes, including Fiona - a storm that barrelled into Atlantic Canada last month causing widespread damage - look like open-air domes, similar to sport...
Oct 12, 2022
Graft convictions extend Suu Kyi's prison term to 26 years
BANGKOK (AP) - A court in military-ruled Myanmar convicted the country's ousted leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, on two more corruption charges Wednesday, with two three-year sentences, to be served concurre...
Oct 11, 2022
Ex-Texas cop charged for shooting teen eating hamburger
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A now-former San Antonio police officer was charged Tuesday with two counts of aggravated assault by a peace officer for shooting and gravely wounding a teen who was eating a hambur...
Oct 11, 2022
Winnipeg wants to host Grey Cup championship, Manitoba offers $5.5M to help bid
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers are bidding to host the Canadian Football League Grey Cup championship in either 2024 or 2025, and the Manitoba government is offering up to $5.5 million to help t...
Oct 11, 2022
Small Yukon First Nation bans sex offender using its COVID emergency law
WHITEHORSE - A First Nation of fewer than 300 people in Yukon's north has used a law it created during the COVID-19 pandemic to bar a convicted sex offender from being sent to its community. The Vuntu...
Oct 11, 2022
Fernandez bounced in opening round at WTA San Diego Open
SAN DIEGO - Daria Kasatkina took less than an hour on Tuesday to end Leylah Fernandez's experience at the WTA San Diego Open. The eighth-seeded Russian bounced the Montreal athlete 6-2, 6-2 in the fir...
Oct 11, 2022
Football, dramas lead Nielsen's weekly top 20 list
NEW YORK (AP) - Here's the Nielsen company's list of the 20 most-watched prime-time television programs for the week of Oct. 3-9: 1. NFL Football: Cincinnati at Baltimore, NBC, 15.88 million. 2. "NFL ...
Oct 11, 2022
Angela Lansbury, 'Murder She Wrote' star, dies at 96
NEW YORK - Angela Lansbury, the scene-stealing British actor who kicked up her heels in the Broadway musicals "Mame'' and "Gypsy'' and solved endless murders as crime novelist Jessica Fletcher in the ...
Oct 11, 2022