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CF Montreal's Champions League run ends with 1-1 draw against Cruz Azul
MONTREAL - CF Montreal's CONCACAF Champions League run ended Wednesday night as a 1-1 home draw against Cruz Azul saw them bow out of the tournament on aggregate. Rudy Camacho scored for CF Montreal w...
Mar 16, 2022

Roslovic scores pair of goals, Blue Jackets beat Senators 4-1
OTTAWA - Jack Roslovic scored twice Wednesday night in the Columbus Blue Jackets' 4-1 win over the Ottawa Senators that extended their winning streak to three games. Eric Robinson and Sean Kuraly, wit...
Mar 16, 2022

Montreal Canadiens trade Chiarot to Panthers for forward Smilanic, picks
MONTREAL - The struggling Montreal Canadians traded defenceman Ben Chiarot, one of the most coveted players on the trade market, to the Florida Panthers on Wednesday for forward Tyler Smilanic and two...
Mar 16, 2022

Calgary Flames send picks to Seattle for Swedish forward Calle Jarnkrok
CALGARY - The Calgary Flames acquired forward Calle Jarnkrok from Seattle on Wednesday as the Kraken started their pre-trade deadline fire sale. The Flames gave up three draft picks: a second-round pi...
Mar 16, 2022

Canadian Pacific Railway issues 72-hour lockout notice on Teamsters Canada
CALGARY - Close to 3,000 employees of Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. could be off the job early Sunday morning. Calgary-based CP Rail said in a release Wednesday that it has issued 72-hour notice to th...
Mar 16, 2022

More needed to address meat worker shortage than just changing TFWP
PRINCE GEORGE-During a conference on Tuesday, the Small Scale Meat Producers Association found that slaughter access was a key issue for producers. But on the other side, slaughterhouse operators say ...
Mar 16, 2022

Local MPs among hundreds of leaders banned from entering Russia
PRINCE GEORGE-In a statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, more than 300 Canadians-including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-are banned from entering Russia, following sweeping sanctions. Almost al...
Mar 16, 2022

Pain at the pumps forcing more to choose transit
PRINCE GEORGE - The longer the price of gas stays at or near record highs at the pumps, the more people might be looking at taking transit.According to BC Transit, it's still too early to know for sur...
Mar 16, 2022

One dead in Northern Health from COVID in latest provincial report
VICTORIA - Eight people have died from COVID across the province today with one of those being in the Northern Health region. COVID cases in hospitals have dropped by 16 since yesterday's report and o...
Mar 16, 2022

Eight more COVID-19 deaths reported, one more health facility outbreak in B.C.
VICTORIA - British Columbia is reporting another eight deaths due to COVID-19, bringing the death toll to 2,953. Hospitalization numbers continue to drop in the province, with 329 people in hospital W...
Mar 16, 2022