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Just for Laughs founder asks appeal court to toss class action lawsuit
MONTREAL - Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon's lawyer asked Quebec's highest court Thursday to throw out a $10-million class action lawsuit claiming that the comedy impresario abused at ...
May 16, 2019

Wednesday's Scoreboard
Wednesday's GamesNSRBLLloyd Twins 7, Unity Midgets 3 World Hockey ChampionshipUnited States 6 Britain 3Germany 3 Slovakia 2Switzerland 4 Norway 1Russia 10 Italy 0NHL PlayoffsWestern Conference FinalSa...
May 16, 2019 (file photo/battlefordsNOW staff)

Haechan meets Haechan: K-pop star honoured with zoo namesake
LOS ANGELES - Fans of the K-pop group NCT 127 donated money in January to name a baby pudu at the Los Angeles Zoo after one of its members, Haechan (HECH'-ehn). This week, the human Haechan got to mee...
May 16, 2019

Indigenous teen's treatment while disclosing abuse indicative of 'pattern'
OTTAWA - B.C.'s former child representative Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond says the "heinous" treatment of an Indigenous teenager during a 2012 RCMP interrogation reflects a pattern she has seen o...
May 16, 2019

Toronto FC's Jozy Altidore says competition is fierce with tennis star fiancee
TORONTO - Put a star soccer striker and world-ranked tennis player together and what have you got? One competitive couple, when it comes to Toronto FC's Jozy Altidore and world No. 8 Sloane Steph...
May 16, 2019

NATO researchers consult federal government on foreign election meddling
OTTAWA - A leading NATO researcher says Canadian voters have a duty to think critically about the news they consume as foreign-interference threats loom over the coming federal election. Jan...
May 16, 2019

B.C. legislature clerk in spending scandal retires after wrongdoing found
VICTORIA - British Columbia's top legislative official has retired after a report by a former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Canada found he improperly claimed benefits...
May 16, 2019

UFO researcher Stanton Friedman dies after half-century effort to prove alien life
FREDERICTON - Stanton T. Friedman, nuclear physicist, lecturer and world-renowned devotee of extraterrestrial existence, has died at the age of 84. The famed UFO researcher died Monday at To...
May 16, 2019

Liberals push Tories to show climate-policy hand with climate-change motion
OTTAWA - In a battle to see who can prove they care more about the environment, both the Liberals and the federal New Democrats are pushing motions this week to declare climate change a national ...
May 16, 2019

Battleford welcomes Discovery Co-op grocery store
There's a new place for Battleford residents to do their grocery shopping.Discovery Co-op Battleford Food Store opened its doors for the first time to customers at 9 a.m., Thursday.Delores Porter was ...
May 16, 2019 Store manager James Waggoner is at the helm to welcome the first customers. (Angela Brown/battlefordsNOW Staff)