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B.C. government targets 'profiteers' with legislation to bring in flipping tax
VICTORIA - British Columbia has tabled legislation to enact the home-flipping tax, charging 20 per cent to those who sell their home within the first year. Finance Minister Katrine Conroy told the leg...
Apr 03, 2024
Wilfrid Laurier's Luke Brubacher impressing despite limited football experience
WATERLOO, ONTARIO - As Wilfrid Laurier's head football coach, Michael Faulds has seen many walk-ons. But never one like Luke Brubacher. The six-foot-six, 255-pound defensive end's introduction to foot...
Apr 03, 2024
New med school programs being created in Lethbridge & Grande Prairie
A pair of new educational programs aim to certify more than 100 new doctors every year in Alberta.The Government of Alberta has announced $224.8 million to create Rural Medical Education Program Train...
Apr 03, 2024
Woodbine jockey Kimura earns second straight Kentucky Derby mount
Woodbine jockey Kazushi Kimura will be riding in the Kentucky Derby for a second straight year. Kimura, who won a third straight Woodbine riding title last year, will be aboard T O Password, a Japanes...
Apr 03, 2024
Check that check; PWHL players may have to rein in physicality at world championship
UTICA, N.Y. - Coaches and players in the Professional Women's Hockey League don't expect the new league's brand of hard-hitting hockey to continue into the world championship. The PWHL rule book relea...
Apr 03, 2024
Canada's Kim calm, cool and collected ahead of Augusta National Women's Amateur
If Lauren Kim is intimidated by storied Augusta National Golf Club, it doesn't show. The 19-year-old collegiate golfer from Surrey, B.C., is the lone Canadian in the field at the Augusta National Wome...
Apr 03, 2024
'The current government is incompetent': NDP leadership candidate in Medicine Hat for town hall on Thursday
Alberta New Democrat leadership candidate Kathleen Ganley, Calgary-Mountain View MLA, is coming to Medicine Hat on Thursday for a leadership town hall.The city's NDP constituency association is hostin...
Apr 03, 2024
Former U.S. president Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6M in March
Donald Trump and the Republican Party say they raised more than $65.6 million in March as the former president became the presumptive nominee and installed new party leadership. Trump and the Republic...
Apr 03, 2024
Woman faces second-degree murder charge in death of child at Quebec City daycare
QUEBEC - The Crown says two people have been charged in the killing of a 14-month old girl last month at a home daycare in Quebec City. Guenuite Kiwangala Mubwaka, 25, was charged today with second-de...
Apr 03, 2024
Long-standing trees at Medicine Hat's Connaught Golf Club taken down
Golfers playing at Connaught Golf Club in Medicine Hat will find the green at hole 13 looks noticeably different this year when it opens later this month.Over 20 trees have been removed from the area ...
Apr 03, 2024