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Apple, MLB announce 'Friday Night Baseball' package
CUPERTINO, Calif. (AP) - Apple will enter the live sports coverage arena with "Friday Night Baseball." Apple and Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that Apple TV+ will carry a weekly doubleheader...
Mar 8, 2022
AP Sources: Seahawks agree to trade Russell Wilson to Denver
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) - The Seattle Seahawks have agreed to trade nine-time Pro Bowl quarterback Russell Wilson to the Denver Broncos for a massive haul of draft picks and players, two people familiar...
Mar 8, 2022
'We were 100 per cent sure.' Mounties mistakenly thought N.S. gunman had shot himself
HALIFAX - It is one of the most perplexing aspects about the mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives: after killing 13 people in Portapique, N.S., late on April 18, 2020, the killer decided...
Mar 8, 2022
Winnipeg zoo giving COVID-19 vaccine to 55 animals including tigers and snow leopards
WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg zoo is giving a COVID-19 vaccine to some of its animals that are considered to be at greater risk of contracting the virus. The Assiniboine Park Zoo says it has begun using a v...
Mar 8, 2022
Experts question Tory MP's bill to protect political beliefs in Human Rights Act
OTTAWA - Legal experts are questioning the necessity of a Conservative MP's bill to add political beliefs and activity to the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination in the Canadian Human Rights ...
Mar 8, 2022
Who's in, who's out and who else may enter the Conservative party leadership race
OTTAWA - With Sept.10 picked as the date for when the Conservative Party of Canada will have a new leader, time is ticking for prospective candidates and their teams to get into place. Those running h...
Mar 8, 2022
Canadian military trainers deal with mixed emotions as Ukrainians defend from Russia
OTTAWA - Lt.-Col. Sarah Heer says it is absolutely "excruciating" watching from afar as friends and comrades that she helped train in the Ukrainian military a year ago are now forced to fight for thei...
Mar 8, 2022
Alberta rural municipalities say unpaid oilpatch taxes rising despite high oil prices
The amount of unpaid taxes energy companies owe to small-town Alberta is growing despite high oil prices, the province's rural municipalities said Tuesday. Rural Municipalities of Alberta says its mem...
Mar 8, 2022
Transport Canada fines passengers on Sunwing party flight
MONTREAL - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says his department has fined six passengers who were onboard a Sunwing flight last year that devolved into a raucous onboard party. Videos of the Dec. 30 c...
Mar 8, 2022
New campaign aims to bring awareness of services offered by women’s shelters
EDMONTON, AB - March 8 marks International Women's Day.On Tuesday, the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters (ACWS) announced a new provincial awareness campaign to illustrate how domestic violence shel...
Mar 8, 2022