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NB city council sets dates for budget deliberations
With a new council and impending new year, comes then anticipated budget in mid-January. In preparations of the new operating and capital budget as mandated by the Cities Act, the goals are simple: be...
Dec 10, 2024
AFN says it's not prepared to implement chiefs' child welfare direction
OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations is warning it's not equipped to implement the direction it received from chiefs at two recent assemblies on child welfare reforms. Chiefs passed resolutions in O...
Dec 10, 2024
Scottie Barnes wearing air cast boot to protect sprained right ankle
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have confirmed that Scottie Barnes has a sprained right ankle. Barnes was wearing an air cast boot and walking with a cane at Scotiabank Arena during practice this mornin...
Dec 10, 2024
A look at Environment Canada's top 10 weather events for 2024
Environment Canada has released its annual list of top 10 weather events. Here's the list for 2024: - Arctic communities face unusual heat wave - Central Canada bears the brunt of the 2024 hurricane s...
Dec 10, 2024
Jasper wildfire, flooding, hail among top weather events of 2024: Environment Canada
A wildfire that left a third of a popular Rocky Mountain tourist town in ashes, remnants of a hurricane season that led to record-breaking rainfall and a hailstorm that grounded airplanes are among th...
Dec 10, 2024
Toronto FC's Insigne made available in MLS expansion draft but unlikely to be taken
Toronto FC has left designated player Lorenzo Insigne unprotected in the MLS expansion draft, knowing the Italian star's big-ticket salary will likely deter expansion San Diego FC. MLS teams are allow...
Dec 10, 2024
DA suggests judge could permanently halt Trump’s hush money case while upholding his conviction
NEW YORK (AP) - Prosecutors are urging a judge not to throw out President-elect Donald Trump's hush money criminal conviction but suggesting a willingness to end the case in a way that would preserve ...
Dec 10, 2024
Battlefords look to end Bombers streak, Grill and Campbell get weekly awards
The Battlefords North Stars held onto their second-place spot in the standings after getting three out of four points this past weekend against the Weyburn Red Wings. Now boasting a 14-7-3-2 record fo...
Dec 10, 2024
Fifteen fisheries charges laid a decade after Mount Polley dam breached in B.C.
VICTORIA - Fifteen charges under the federal Fisheries Act have been laid against Imperial Metals Corp. more than a decade after a tailings pond collapsed the Mount Polley mine, spilling more than 20 ...
Dec 10, 2024
Curling Canada unveils 16 mixed doubles teams vying to wear Maple Leaf in 2026
LIVERPOOL, N.S. - The field for the Olympic mixed doubles curling trials includes a who's who of Canadian curling. The 16 teams announced Tuesday compete Dec. 30, 2024, to Jan. 4, 2025, in Liverpool, ...
Dec 10, 2024