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Conference looks at how First Nations can be involved in marijuana industry
VANCOUVER - The cannabis industry is seen by some First Nations as an opportunity to take the initiative and get out of poverty, says the regional chief of the B.C. Assembly of Fir...
Sep 05, 2019
NewsAlert: Montreal man pleads guilty to murder of unborn child
MONTREAL - A Montreal man charged with fatally stabbing his unborn baby has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated assault. The guilty plea from Sofiane Ghazi, 39, came on the second da...
Sep 05, 2019
Sarah Huckabee Sanders memoir coming in 2020
NEW YORK - Former White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has a book deal. St. Martin's Press announced Thursday that her memoir will come out in Fall 2020. Sanders will write about her tim...
Sep 05, 2019
First day of school for 4-year-old UK Princess Charlotte
LONDON - Britain's Princess Charlotte had plenty of support on her first day of school - she was accompanied by older brother Prince George and her parents, Prince William and his wife Catherine, the ...
Sep 05, 2019
Palestinian refugees in Lebanon want asylum in Canada
BEIRUT - Waving Palestinian and Canadian flags, hundreds of Palestinian refugees gathered outside the Canadian Embassy in Beirut on Thursday requesting asylum in the North American country. Many among...
Sep 05, 2019
Nam Sing Packing Expedition rolls into Barkerville this weekend
BARKERVILLE-The Nam Sing Packing Expedition Historic Re-creation will come to Barkerville on Sunday, September 8th.The re-creation will take place during Barkerville's historic, Cowboys and Drovers Ju...
Sep 05, 2019 Courtesy of New Pathways to Gold
5 things you need to know: Thursday, Sept.5th
Here are the five things you need to know today:More curtailments to pulp millCanfor's PG Pulp and Paper Mill will be down for two weeks following its previously scheduled turnaround maintenance. The ...
Sep 05, 2019 5 things
'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' UK PM loses brother from gov't
LONDON - "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" a 2000 Coen Brothers film starring George Clooney is a title that could be going through embattled British Prime Minister Johnson's mind. Britain's toxic divide o...
Sep 05, 2019
Johnson calls opponents cowardly, plans new election bid
LONDON - Prime Minister Boris Johnson kept up his push for an early election as a way to break Britain's Brexit impasse, as lawmakers moved to stop the U.K. leaving the European Union next month witho...
Sep 05, 2019
A re-energized Hurricane Dorian rakes the Southeast US coast
CHARLESTON, S.C. - Re-energized at 115 mph, Hurricane Dorian raked the Southeastern U.S. coast with howling, window-rattling winds and sideways rain Thursday, knocking out power to more than 200,000 h...
Sep 05, 2019