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Royal Canadian Mint releases coin celebrating 50th anniversary of 1972 Summit Series
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Mint is commemorating the anniversary of the 1972 Summit Series with a $2 coin celebrating Canada's hockey triumph over the Soviet Union The 1972 Summit Series was an eight...
Sep 28, 2022
Fiona fallout: Nova Scotia premier blasts cellphone companies for poor service
HALIFAX - The premier of Nova Scotia has issued a stinging rebuke to the telecommunications companies that serve the province, saying too many residents are still without cellphone service four days a...
Sep 28, 2022
Financier gives seven-figure sum to Canada's alpine, para alpine and ski cross racers
Alpine Canada's board chair has made a personal donation of $1.3 million to national alpine, para-alpine and ski cross racers to reduce the amount athletes pay out of their own pocket to race for thei...
Sep 28, 2022
Feds tell Canadian hockey players with KHL teams in Russia, Belarus to get out
Canadians continue to play hockey for Kontinental Hockey League teams in Russia and Belarus despite the Canadian government's warning to get out of those countries. The 48 Canadian players currently o...
Sep 28, 2022
N Korea test launches missile on eve of Harris trip to Seoul
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - South Korea says North Korea has fired a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters a day before a visit by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of ...
Sep 28, 2022
A look at the contamination and cleanup of N.W.T.'s Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - Cleanup on one of the biggest environmental messes in Canadian history is underway at the Giant Mine in the Northwest Territories. Here are some facts about the gold mine and efforts to ...
Sep 28, 2022
'Every one of us was a Mahsa': Iranians in Canada cut hair at women's rights rallies
OTTAWA - Azin Rezaeian kneels on the ground and screams "Say her name" each time she snips off a chunk of her long black hair. A crowd around her shouts back "Mahsa Amini," the 22-year-old woman whose...
Sep 28, 2022
'Contaminated': $1-billion cleanup underway at notorious N.W.T. gold mine
YELLOWKNIFE - Just outside this northern capital, on a small hill within eyeshot of its skyline, sit 365 sea cans sealed off behind a high wire fence, the surrounding roads regularly watered to settle...
Sep 28, 2022
Gold, arsenic and murder: A look at the complex history of N.W.T.'s Giant Mine
YELLOWKNIFE - A team working to address environmental and health effects from a former gold mine outside Yellowknife has provided an update on the effort to clean up one of the most contaminated place...
Sep 28, 2022
Big numbers: Remediation of Giant Mine a cleanup on a vast scale
YELLOWKNIFE - The scale of the cleanup required at the Giant Mine almost beggars belief. Eight open mine pits. Six tailings ponds. About 100 buildings, many laced with asbestos. Untold tonnes of rusti...
Sep 28, 2022