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Athlete Women Empowered Classic to showcase basketball teams led by Black women
A unique collegiate basketball tournament is coming to Toronto to encourage more Black, Indigenous and racialized women to get into coaching. The Athlete Women Empowered Classic, a four-team U Sports ...
Oct 13, 2023

Israeli shelling along Lebanon border kills 1 journalist, wounds 6
ALMA Al-SHAAB, Lebanon (AP) - An Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing a Reuters videographer and leaving six other ...
Oct 13, 2023

RCMP seize over 300 lbs of drugs in June traffic stop near Maidstone
New information released by RCMP shows that a June traffic stop near Maidstone turned out 200 pounds of meth and about 140 pounds of cocaine. The meth tested as high as 100 per cent pure while the coc...
Oct 13, 2023

Update: RCMP arrest last suspect that caused dangerous person alert for Montreal Lake
Update: RCMP have arrested the last suspect that caused a dangerous person alert to be issued on the Montreal Lake Cree Nation.Justice Bird was taken into custody on Friday at a residence north of the...
Oct 13, 2023

Horizon School Division loses $3.8K after employee allegedly steals fuel
The Horizon School Division, based in Humboldt, is reporting a loss of roughly $3,800.According to a release from Saskatchewan's Ministry of Education, this was because of a suspected theft of fuel by...
Oct 13, 2023

Economy to 'stagnate,' federal deficit expected to balloon to $46.5B this year: PBO
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says higher interest rates will lead the economy to stagnate in the second half of the year and the federal deficit will rise significantly this fiscal year. ...
Oct 13, 2023

Reaction to Supreme Court's ruling on environmental review law
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled against federal legislation dealing with the environmental effects of major developments. Five out of seven judges found most of it unconstitutional, because it s...
Oct 13, 2023

Former Mountie acknowledges tension between intelligence units within RCMP
OTTAWA - A former senior Mountie acknowledges there were tensions from time to time between an intelligence unit he led and one run by Cameron Jay Ortis, who is charged with breaching Canada's secrets...
Oct 13, 2023

Surrey, B.C., to ask court to review provincial order to stay with municipal police
SURREY, B.C. - The City of Surrey says it will file a petition with the Supreme Court of British Columbia for a judicial review of the provincial government's order that forces it to continue the tran...
Oct 13, 2023

RCMP charge second person in death of Deschambault Lake teenager
Another person has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a teenager in Deschambault Lake. On Oct. 1st, RCMP received a report of an injured person on a street in the community. When t...
Oct 13, 2023