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Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold officially punches her ticket to Tokyo
It's official: Canadian boxer Mandy Bujold is Tokyo-bound. Bujold was named to Canada's five-member Olympic boxing team on Wednesday, a week after she won her human rights appeal to the Court of Arbit...
Jul 07, 2021
Key party in Malaysia ruling alliance pulls support for PM
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) - The largest party in Malaysia's ruling alliance said Thursday that it will withdraw support for Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin immediately and urged him to make way for ...
Jul 07, 2021
Man who stabbed B.C. high schoolers ineligible for parole for 16 years
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A man who fatally stabbed a teenage girl in her high school's rotunda in Abbotsford, B.C., in 2016 will not be eligible to apply for parole for 16 years, after a judge ruled th...
Jul 07, 2021
Home sales double in Lethbridge this year to record levels
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge's real estate market is "exceptionally strong" in 2021.Cathy Maxwell, CEO of the Lethbridge and District Association of Realtors, says the city is absolutely in a seller's ...
Jul 07, 2021
Hungry caterpillars stripping trees in Quebec, Ontario and on Montreal's Mount Royal
MONTREAL - Biologists are tracking the spread of a bumper crop of hungry caterpillars that are eating their way through some of Quebec and Ontario's best-known green spaces. An entomologist with the M...
Jul 07, 2021
Officers called to Victoria apartment to corral boa constrictor on the loose
Victoria police say they are looking for the owner of a large snake found on the loose at a downtown apartment complex. Const. Cam MacIntyre says police were called Tuesday night after a resident repo...
Jul 07, 2021
Ryley Van Maanen added to Kodiaks soccer team
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge College Kodiaks men's soccer team has added Coaldale local Ryley Van Maanen.Van Maanen is a centre-forward who grew up playing in the Coaldale Thunder system, before sp...
Jul 07, 2021
Alberta Skeleton Association hosting recruitment day at U of L this weekend
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Alberta Skeleton Association is coming to Lethbridge this weekend.Skeleton is a winter sliding sport in which an athlete rides a small sled down a frozen track while lying face-do...
Jul 07, 2021
Stampeders assistant coach named to board of directors for local football club
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Vipers have added an assistant coach in the CFL to its ranks.Mark Kilam has been named to the football team's board of directors. Kilam is entering his 17th season with...
Jul 07, 2021
Nova Scotia premier responds to new questions about drunk driving charge in 2005
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's premier faced fresh questions today about what happened in the summer of 2005 when he was arrested for allegedly driving drunk. Iain Rankin confirmed Monday he had been convict...
Jul 07, 2021