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Using 'face doubles,' a new doc captures an anti-LGBTQ purge
Anonymous sources in documentaries have often been reduced to a shadowy, voice-distorted figure - or worse, a pixelated blur. But a new documentary premiering Tuesday on HBO has, with the aid of advan...
Jun 29, 2020
Ejection seat tangled with parachute in Snowbirds crash: Investigators
OTTAWA - A military investigation has found the ejection seat of one of its iconic Snowbirds planes tangled with the pilot's parachute as he tried to escape from the aircraft before it crashed in the ...
Jun 29, 2020
Manslaughter plea in 2018 city homicide
MEDICINE HAT, AB - There is no known motive in a gruesome and violent attack that left a 23-year-old city man dead from blunt-force trauma and multiple stab wounds in December 2018.But there is now a ...
Jun 29, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic impacting television host Izumi's business and personal lives
The COVID-19 pandemic has left its mark on TV fishing host Bob Izumi's professional and personal life. The affable Izumi resumed filming for his Real Fishing television show about&...
Jun 29, 2020
Buzzing through air and space: New species of bee named after Canadian astronaut
REGINA - A Saskatchewan scientist has named a new species of bee after Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. Cory Sheffield says he came across a unique looking female bee while cataloguing insect s...
Jun 29, 2020
MMA fighter Rory (Red King) MacDonald turns film-maker with digital series
While the Professional Fighters League is on hiatus due to COVID-19, training and family are keeping Canadian MMA fighter Rory (Red King) MacDonald busy. The 30-year-old welterweight offers a loo...
Jun 29, 2020
New models show COVID-19 progress but with 'hotspots' to monitor: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says new federal models show continued progress in suppressing COVID-19, but with significant hotspots. He says the restrictions Canadians have lived with throug...
Jun 29, 2020
Democracies must unite to share intel in disinformation fight, LeBlanc says
WASHINGTON - The federal minister in charge of Canada's electoral integrity says democracies around the world have a lot to teach each other about how best to combat online disinformation. N...
Jun 29, 2020
N.L. liquor corp. to change "Old Sam" logo over concerns about racist branding
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador Liquor Corp. says it will change the logo - but keep the name - of a locally bottled rum brand that appears to depict a laughing Black man. T...
Jun 29, 2020
Adjusting to COVID, Sundance to expand footprint nationwide
NEW YORK - The Sundance Film Festival, held annually at altitude in the snowy reaches of a Utah ski town, is expanding beyond the mountains. Sundance, the premier independent film festival, isn't givi...
Jun 29, 2020