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Jasper wildfire, flooding, hail among top weather events of 2024: Environment Canada
A wildfire that left a third of a popular Rocky Mountain tourist town in ashes, remnants of a hurricane season that led to record-breaking rainfall and a hailstorm that grounded airplanes are among th...
Dec 10, 2024
Toronto FC's Insigne made available in MLS expansion draft but unlikely to be taken
Toronto FC has left designated player Lorenzo Insigne unprotected in the MLS expansion draft, knowing the Italian star's big-ticket salary will likely deter expansion San Diego FC. MLS teams are allow...
Dec 10, 2024
DA suggests judge could permanently halt Trump’s hush money case while upholding his conviction
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors are urging a judge not to throw out President-elect Donald Trump's hush money criminal conviction but suggesting a willingness to end the case in a way that would preserve ...
Dec 10, 2024
Fifteen fisheries charges laid a decade after Mount Polley dam breached in B.C.
VICTORIA - Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 ...
Dec 10, 2024
What's Happening in Lethbridge this week: December 9-15, 2024
LETHBRIDGE, AB - There's plenty to do around Lethbridge this week, and Lethbridge News Now has the details.Winter Light Festival - November 29 - February 28, 2025The Winter Light Festival is back at t...
Dec 10, 2024
Curling Canada unveils 16 mixed doubles teams vying to wear Maple Leaf in 2026
LIVERPOOL, N.S. - The field for the Olympic mixed doubles curling trials includes a who's who of Canadian curling. The 16 teams announced Tuesday compete Dec. 30, 2024, to Jan. 4, 2025, in Liverpool, ...
Dec 10, 2024
Premiers to meet with Trudeau Wednesday about trade and tariffs, Ford says
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the country's premiers are meeting virtually Wednesday with the prime minister to discuss the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian imports. It comes two weeks af...
Dec 10, 2024
Lethbridge & Coaldale to work together on attracting medical specialists
COALDALE, AB - Two neighbouring communities are looking to help each other out when it comes to physicians.Lethbridge Mayor Blaine Hyggen presented to Coaldale Town Council on Monday, December 9, 2024...
Dec 10, 2024
FIFA economic assessment sees positive numbers arising from 2026 World Cup
TORONTO - The 2026 FIFA World Cup will contribute up to $3.8 billion in "positive economic output" for Canada as a host nation, according to a FIFA economic impact assessment. That amount is split bet...
Dec 10, 2024
McIntosh sets world record in 400 freestyle at short-course swimming championships
BUDAPEST - Summer McIntosh won the women's 400-metre freestyle in a world-record time Tuesday at the world short-course swimming championships. The 18-year-old from Toronto swam to victory in three mi...
Dec 10, 2024