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NL Cy Young winner Bauer joins World Series champion Dodgers
LOS ANGELES - Trevor Bauer is coming home to pitch for the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The reigning NL Cy Young Award winner announced his decision on Friday in a two-minute video poste...
Feb 05, 2021

Employment data shows B.C. resilient, says minister, but Liberals unimpressed
VICTORIA - British Columbia's jobs minister says the latest employment numbers from Statistics Canada show the provincial economy remains resilient. The unemployment rate in B.C. last month was eight ...
Feb 05, 2021

Claypool expects Chiefs to defend Super Bowl title but could also see a Tampa Bay win
Chase Claypool is expecting another Super Bowl victory for the Kansas City Chiefs, but the Pittsburgh Steelers' Canadian receiver won't be overly surprised if Tom Brady captures a seventh NFL title. B...
Feb 05, 2021

NDIT to oversee new fund for Northern communities
PRINCE GEORGE - The Province has created a new Northern Health Communities Fund to help 22 local government and 27 First Nations communities impacted by the Coastal GasLink and LNG Canada projects. "W...
Feb 05, 2021

Executives at Pornhub defend efforts at preventing child porn on their websites
MONTREAL - Representatives of Pornhub told a parliamentary committee today they don't know if they were contacted by a woman who says she struggled to have a video of her removed from the pornography ...
Feb 05, 2021

B.C.'s top doctor extends COVID limits for 'hard push'
.VANCOUVER - British Columbia's provincial health officer has extended COVID-19 restrictions in order to slow down the virus further amid concerns about new variants. Dr. Bonnie Henry says a ``hard pu...
Feb 05, 2021

ICC clears way for war crimes probe of Israeli actions
JERUSALEM - The International Criminal Court said Friday that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a wa...
Feb 05, 2021

Defender Ricardo Ferreira switches soccer allegiance from Portugal to Canada
Ricardo Ferreira, a Canadian-born defender who won one cap for Portugal, has switched his international allegiance to Canada. The 28-year-old, born in Mississauga, Ont., to Portuguese parents, was wit...
Feb 05, 2021

Alberta to restore some coal-mining policy protections: government spokesman
EDMONTON, Ky. - The Alberta government plans to restore at least some aspects of a coal policy it revoked last spring, a move that has provoked provincewide protest. Government spokesman Kavi Bal says...
Feb 05, 2021

Valentine's Day contest scrapped by Halifax Transit following public outcry
HALIFAX - A public backlash has forced the Halifax Transit authority to scrap plans for a Valentine's Day contest it called "Love in Transit." When the municipal agency asked the public to share stori...
Feb 05, 2021