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MONTREAL - Ann-Sophie Bettez feels like she's part of hockey history with the Professional Women's Hockey League just hours away from its inaugural season. But had the league formed a year later, ther...

MONTREAL - Wellington Street in Montreal's Verdun borough is booming, with cheerful shop facades lining a district bustling with pedestrians. With a commercial vacancy rate the local business associat...

A look at news events in December 2023: 1 - Israel's war with Hamas resumes in full force with the renewed hostilities highlighting concerns for about 140 hostages still held captive by Hamas and othe...

A look at news events in November 2023: 1 - The Ottawa Senators fire general manager Pierre Dorion. The team announces that hockey operations president Steve Staios will take over the job on an interi...

A look at news events in October 2023 1 - Two people die after a bear attack in Alberta's Banff National Park. Parks Canada staff kill the grizzly bear for public safety. 1 - It goes down to the wire,...

A look at news events in September 2023: 1 - Singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett dies at the age of 76. His song ''Margaritaville" was released in 1977 and spent 22 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. 4 - Ste...

A look at news events in August 2023: 01 - The last surviving miner from the October 1958 Springhill, Nova Scotia coal mine disaster dies. Harold Brine was 91. Only 19 of the 174 men working in the mi...

A look at news events in July 2023: 1 - Scores of forest fires burn in Ontario and Quebec, and the smoke drifts hundreds of kilometres into the southern reaches of the provinces and into the central a...

A look at news events in June 2023. 01 - Civil servants in Quebec are now required to speak and write exclusively in French while on the job except in certain cases, such as access to health care and ...

A look at news events in May 2023: 1 - Legendary Canadian folk singer and songwriter Gordon Lightfoot dies of natural causes at Toronto's Sunnybrook Hospital at the age of 84. 1 - The largest public s...