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Saskatchewan First: Province seeking more autonomy over resources, economic future
REGINA - Premier Scott Moe has his eyes set on flexing Saskatchewan's autonomy with legislation akin to Alberta's proposed sovereignty act. Lt.-Gov. Russell Mirastry, in the throne speech, has laid ou...
Oct 26, 2022
Lions quarterback Nathan Rourke nominated for two CFL individual awards
TORONTO - A stellar first half of the season earned quarterback Nathan Rourke nominations for two of the CFL's top individual awards. The Victoria native was named the B.C. Lions' nominee as top Canad...
Oct 26, 2022
Herschel Walker faces abortion allegation from 2nd accuser
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A woman came forward Wednesday to accuse Herschel Walker, the anti-abortion Republican running for U.S. Senate in Georgia, of encouraging and paying for her 1993 abortion - an accus...
Oct 26, 2022
Video game studio helps Nova Scotia's Lunenburg make its mark in the world of golf
From Moe Norman to Mike Weir and Sandra Post to Brooke Henderson, Canada has a rich golf history. But there's also a little-known golf hotbed in Lunenburg, N.S. Located on the south shore of Nova Scot...
Oct 26, 2022
Italy's Meloni easily wins 2nd and final confidence vote
ROME (AP) - Italy's new far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has easily won the second of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. Wednesday night's vote in t...
Oct 26, 2022
FSIN calls on RCMP to further investigate Creighton golf course death
The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations (FSIN) is requesting RCMP further investigate the death of Tristin Jobb, 25, at the Phantom Lake Golf Club in Creighton. She died after being discovered ...
Oct 26, 2022
Canada's Auger-Aliassime advances to Round of 16 at Swiss Indoors
BASEL, Switzerland - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the Round of 16 at the Swiss Indoors with a three-set win over Switzerland's Marc-Andrea Huesler on Wednesday. The Montreal native beat ...
Oct 26, 2022
Overhaul transparency law by adopting long-standing calls for change, group tells MPs
OTTAWA - A pro-transparency group is telling MPs to retool the Access to Information Act by dropping the application fee, imposing tighter timelines to respond to requests for files and narrowing exce...
Oct 26, 2022
Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after temperature records and drought
VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of d...
Oct 26, 2022
Ex-Ottawa police chief says force couldn't change much about response to convoy
OTTAWA - The former chief of the Ottawa police says his officers couldn't have done anything materially differently during the response to the "Freedom Convoy." A summary report of an interview with P...
Oct 26, 2022