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UBC students want to build and study effectiveness of 'tree canopy' bus shelters
VANCOUVER - Students at the University of British Columbia are hoping to build bus shelters with environmental benefits. Tabinda Shah, a final-year urban forestry student, said she and several other s...
Dec 25, 2018
Kapanen, Leafs teammates excited to watch world junior championship
TORONTO - Kasperi Kapanen expects there will be some good natured chirping in the Toronto Maple Leafs locker-room when the world junior hockey championship begins on Boxing Day. Kapanen represented Fi...
Dec 25, 2018
CBP orders medical checks after second child's death
HOUSTON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection ordered medical checks on every child in its custody Tuesday after an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died, marking the second death of an immigrant child in...
Dec 25, 2018
B.C. residents affected by windstorms to have power by New Year's Eve
VANCOUVER - British Columbians will have electricity restored to affected areas by New Year’s Eve following Thursday’s windstorm, says an updated schedule from BC Hydro. According to the s...
Dec 25, 2018
Feds, Irving ask trade tribunal to toss challenge to warship contract
OTTAWA - The federal government and Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding are asking a trade tribunal to throw out a challenge to their handling of a high-stakes competition to design the navy’s new...
Dec 25, 2018
Stubborn young beluga won't stay away from the Maritimes
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. - A group of marine researchers says a young beluga whale is too attached to the Maritimes for his own good. Nepi, who’s estimated to be about four years old, was spotted in S...
Dec 25, 2018
Logan Boulet Effect: Death of player in Broncos crash highlighted organ donation
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Hours after coming across the horrific scene at the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Bernadine and Toby Boulet still hadn’t seen their son Logan. The couple from Lethbridge, Alta....
Dec 25, 2018
Team Canada looks to defend hockey gold medal on home ice; starts Boxing Day
VICTORIA - It’s a Canadian Christmas tradition as enduring as gifts, gatherings and punch bowls of rum and egg nog. The world junior men’s hockey championship, which starts Boxing Day and ...
Dec 25, 2018
A look at the 10 nations competing at the 2019 world junior championship
The exhibition games are over and Canada is set to defend its gold medal when the puck drops on Boxing Day for the world junior hockey championship The top 10 junior hockey nations will face off betwe...
Dec 25, 2018
At least 27 dead after bus, truck collide in Congo
KINSHASA, Congo - A Congolese health official says at least 27 people are dead after a bus and a truck collided west of the capital, Kinshasa. Dr. Sylvain Yuma with the health ministry says the accide...
Dec 25, 2018