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'A crazy experience': Flames' Mangiapane recalls NHL draft roller-coaster
MONTREAL - Plenty of young hockey players are set to live out childhood dreams this week. The NHL's first in-person draft since 2019 will see teenagers hear their names announced inside the cavernous ...
Jul 05, 2022

Large amount of boots found on road near Lloydminster
Maidstone RCMP are investigating a possible mass theft of footwear.The detachment received a report on June 19 that there were around 20-25 steel toe, Viking Mining boots on the side of the road near ...
Jul 05, 2022

De Grasse hopeful he'll be back in top form at the world championships post-COVID
TORONTO - A month before the world track and field championships, Canada's fastest man was winded just walking up the stairs in his home in Jacksonville, Fla. Andre De Grasse recently returned to full...
Jul 05, 2022

July 4 parade shooting leaves 6 dead, 30 hurt; man detained
HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) - A shooter fired on an Independence Day parade from a rooftop in suburban Chicago, spraying the crowd with gunshots initially mistaken for fireworks before hundreds of panick...
Jul 05, 2022

NATO nations sign accession protocols for Sweden, Finland
BRUSSELS (AP) - The 30 NATO allies signed off on the accession protocols for Sweden and Finland on Tuesday, sending the membership bids of the two nations to the alliance capitals for legislative appr...
Jul 05, 2022

Freedom Convoy organizer in court and AFN Assembly: In The News for July 5, 2022
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, July 5th, 2022 ... What we are watchi...
Jul 05, 2022

Assembly of First Nations meets as suspended chief fights for financial audit
VANCOUVER - The annual gathering of the Assembly of First Nations is being held this week in Vancouver under a cloud of criticism from its national chief, who has been suspended and denied entry to th...
Jul 05, 2022

'Freedom Convoy' organizer Tamara Lich expected to have bail hearing today
OTTAWA - Tamara Lich, an organizer of the "Freedom Convoy," is set to appear in an Ottawa court today for a bail hearing after being arrested last week for allegedly breaching one of her bail conditio...
Jul 05, 2022

White Sox, MLB decide to play game after parade shooting
CHICAGO (AP) - The Chicago White Sox talked to Major League Baseball on Monday about postponing their game against the Minnesota Twins after a gunman opened fire on an Independence Day parade in subur...
Jul 04, 2022

In Kashmir, 'conscious music' tests India’s limits on speech
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - Sarfaraz Javaid thumps his chest rhythmically in the music video, swaying to the guitar and letting his throaty voice ring out through the forest: "What kind of soot has shroude...
Jul 04, 2022