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Food fight: Liberals, Tories trade shots as pre-campaign battles intensify
OTTAWA - Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor is trying to distinguish the Liberals as a party of scientific, evidence-based policy while she says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is spreading mis...
Jul 22, 2019
Le Batard absent from radio show after assailing Trump, ESPN
NEW YORK - ESPN's Dan Le Batard was not at his radio show Monday after attracting attention for criticizing President Donald Trump's racist tweets and his network's policy of avoiding politics unless ...
Jul 22, 2019
Building evacuated by Fire Rescue after reports of a possible structure fire
PRINCE GEORGE-Prince George Fire Rescue responded to a report of a possible structure fire in the 1300 block of 6th Ave, Monday morning.The call came in at around 7:15 am and 19 firefighters were disp...
Jul 22, 2019
The Canadian Press appoints veteran Andrea Baillie as editor-in-chief
TORONTO - The Canadian Press is promoting managing editor Andrea Baillie to editor-in-chief, the first woman to oversee editorial operations at the national news wire. The veteran wire ...
Jul 22, 2019
Huawei Canada says it met federal security requirements for new Arctic 4G project
OTTAWA - Huawei Canada says it has received federal approval to work with a northern telecom company and an Inuit development corporation to extend high-speed 4G wireless services to 70 communities in...
Jul 22, 2019
Nova Scotia expert panel examining safety of high school sports like rugby
HALIFAX - An expert panel promised after high school rugby was banned then reinstated in Nova Scotia this year has begun its work. The 17-member inter-school sport safety review panel is expected to r...
Jul 22, 2019
Former Canadian international Jamie Cudmore says time was right to come home
Jamie Cudmore says the time was right to come home. The 40-year-old former Canadian international, one of Canada's best-known rugby exports, is leaving France to groom the next wave of rugby...
Jul 22, 2019
Provincial police suspend aerial search for missing businessman, son
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are suspending helicopter searches today for a Quebec businessman and his teen son missing for 12 days somewhere in a vast area of the upper Laurentians. Police say...
Jul 22, 2019
Federal money to help veterans find housing, basic services
OTTAWA - A Montreal project to help homeless veterans find a place to live and other necessary services is among 22 initiatives receiving federal money from a fund that suppor...
Jul 22, 2019
IIO Investigating incident in Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE- The Independent Investigations Office of BC has been deployed to a police involved incident in Prince George.PG RCMP reported that at around 9:30 pm on July 19, 2019 a person was arrest...
Jul 22, 2019