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Canada border agency makes largest airport cocaine seizure in Prairie history in Winnipeg
The largest airport cocaine seizure in Prairie history took place earlier this month in Winnipeg, Canada's border agency reported Tuesday. During an examination of an international flight on Feb. 9 th...
Feb 27, 2024

Online hate speech must not become political 'yo-yo,' anti-hate expert warns
OTTAWA - The former chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is warning parliamentarians against turning a newly reintroduced section of the Canadian Human Rights Act into a game of political "yo-yo." ...
Feb 27, 2024

B.C. First Nation sues federal government over ban on herring spawn fishery
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A British Columbia First Nation says it has launched a civil lawsuit against the federal government over its decision in 2022 to ban one of its commercial fisheries The Heiltsuk Na...
Feb 27, 2024

'Not consulted': Alberta health minister questions Ottawa's national pharmacare plan
EDMONTON - Alberta's health minister is questioning the need for a national pharmacare plan, saying the province already has a comprehensive program for seniors, those on a low-income and those who re...
Feb 27, 2024

Jays' Swanson to be away from team as young son hospitalized after being hit by car
LAKELAND, Fla. - Blue Jays reliever Erik Swanson will be away from the team indefinitely after his son was hit by a car and hospitalized on Sunday in Florida, manager John Schneider said. The Toronto ...
Feb 27, 2024

Ottawa will shut down shady post-secondary institutions if provinces don't: Miller
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Ottawa is ready to step in and shut down shady schools that are abusing the international student program if provinces don't crack down on them. Miller s...
Feb 27, 2024

Senators-Flyers 2004 brawl in Philadelphia still holds NHL record for most penalty minutes
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The root of one the wildest brawls in NHL history came only a week earlier, when Ottawa's Martin Havlat's rocked Mark Recchi in the face with his stick and drew a two-game suspensi...
Feb 27, 2024

Relive the biggest modern NHL brawl through the words of those who were involved
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - The 2004 brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators still holds the NHL record for the most penalty minutes in a game in NHL history with 419. It ended with 21 fight...
Feb 27, 2024

Former NHL fighter Donald Brashear is still playing hockey at 52 and doing it his way
Donald Brashear fought in the NHL because that was his job, not because he wanted to drop the gloves - which he did more than all but seven players to ever play in the league. "Fighting was never the ...
Feb 27, 2024

20 years since NHL's record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere
Chicago's Marcus Foligno took a hit, delivered one of his own to Minnesota's Jarred Tinordi, and the two big guys dropped the gloves. Outdoors in front of 82,000 people in the Meadowlands, it took eve...
Feb 27, 2024