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New card will improve communication between police and motorists
MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat police now have a new tool to aid in communication with motorists who are still learning the English language or struggle to communicate for other reasons. The visual c...
Jan 14, 2021

Wife of Nunavut man who died from COVID-19 pleads with people to get vaccinated
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The wife of a Nunavut man who died from COVID-19 after contracting it in his community is urging the territory's residents to get vaccinated. Diane Sammurtok's husband Luki died in ...
Jan 14, 2021

COVID-19 pandemic has forever impacted life of Montreal Alouettes star and his family
The COVID-19 pandemic has forever left its mark on Montreal Alouettes linebacker Henoc Muamba and his family. Mamba's mother-in-law, Elizabeth Tweneboah, died in June after contracting the novel coron...
Jan 14, 2021

Gov't watchdog: DOJ failed 'zero tolerance' management
WASHINGTON - Justice Department leaders under President Donald Trump knew their 2018 "zero tolerance" border policy would result in family separations but pressed on with prosecutions even as other ag...
Jan 14, 2021

Supreme Court to examine limits on conditional sentencing
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will examine the constitutionality of a law that prevented a judge from allowing an offender to avoid jail by imposing a conditional sentence for certain crimes. T...
Jan 14, 2021

Canadian forward Tyler Pasher returns to MLS with the Houston Dynamo
Canadian forward Tyler Pasher is back in Major League Soccer, signing with the Houston Dynamo from the USL Championship's Indy Eleven. The 26-year-old from Elmira, Ont., scored 23 goals and added six ...
Jan 14, 2021

"Anyone's Game" goes behind the scenes of Canada's top high school prep program
TORONTO - Early in Episode 1 of "Anyone's Game," Tony McIntyre talks about the growth he'd seen in Matthew-Alexander Moncrieffe, an explosive six-foot-seven wing who arrived at Orangeville Prep as a r...
Jan 14, 2021

Teachers want UCP decision on pension reversed
Alberta teachers are calling on the United Conservative government to reverse a decision about how their pensions are managed.Just before Christmas the government quietly signed an order giving the Al...
Jan 14, 2021

Man arrested in anti-Semitic graffiti attack on Montreal synagogue to appear in court
Montreal police say a 28-year-old man arrested Wednesday for allegedly defacing a synagogue with anti-Semitic graffiti will appear in court today.The man was arrested after spray-painted swastikas wer...
Jan 14, 2021

NY attorney general sues NYPD over Floyd protest response
New York's attorney general sued the New York Police Department on Thursday, calling the rough treatment of protesters against racial injustice last spring part of a longstanding pattern of abuse that...
Jan 14, 2021