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Family of Montreal man killed by police in 2017 reaches settlement with city
MONTREAL - The family of a man shot dead by Montreal police has reached a settlement with the city in connection with a lawsuit they filed over his death. Pierre Coriolan died on June 27, 2017, when p...
May 12, 2022

Thomas Chabot named Canada's captain for men's world hockey championship
HELSINKI - Ottawa Senators defenceman Thomas Chabot has been named Team Canada's captain for the 2022 men's hockey world championship. Montreal Canadiens right-winger Josh Anderson, New Jersey Devils ...
May 12, 2022

Melfort RCMP seeing no difference in amount of criminal calls over past year
Melfort isn't seeing an increase or decrease in criminal offences.From April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022, RCMP received 957 calls for different situations like assault, theft, and fraud. Not everyone o...
May 12, 2022

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way's huge black hole
WASHINGTON (AP) - The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our own Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, inc...
May 12, 2022

Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to end crisis
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Five-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was reappointed Thursday in an effort to bring stability to the island nation, engulfed in a political and eco...
May 12, 2022

Rights group: Israel approves over 4,000 new settler homes
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel advanced plans for the construction of more than 4,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, a rights group said, a day after the military demolished homes in an...
May 12, 2022

Parks Canada recovers 45 fossils stolen from Burgess Shale, levies $20,000 fine
LAKE LOUISE, ALBERTA - A Quebec resident has been fined $20,000 for taking 45 fossils from three national parks in the Rocky Mountains, including an internationally known fossil site. Parks Canada say...
May 12, 2022

Canadian women's rugby roster chosen for Pacific Four Series in New Zealand
Veterans Laura Russell and Karen Paquin highlight Canada's 32-woman rugby roster for next month's Pacific Four Series in New Zealand. The third-ranked Canadians will play the seventh-ranked U.S. in Ta...
May 12, 2022

RCMP Report Pt. 2: Firearm's arrests, assaults causing injury
Police in the Battlefords arrested a Regina man suspected of trafficking firearms.The detachment was notified that someone was allegedly trying to sell guns stolen from the Blaine Lake area and locate...
May 12, 2022

North Korea fires suspected ballistic missile toward sea
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile toward the sea on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, in the latest of a series of weapons demonstrations this years and jus...
May 12, 2022