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Bob Baffert among those to congratulate Attard following Queen's Plate win
TORONTO - Bob Baffert provided a storybook ending to trainer Kevin Attard's first $1-million Queen's Plate victory. Shortly after filly Moira's record-setting win Sunday in the opening leg of the OLG ...
Aug 22, 2022

Ontario, Maritimes premiers meet to talk health care but offer no details, solutions
MONCTON, N.B. - The premiers of the Maritimes and of Ontario say they need a "Team Canada" approach to fixing the country's health-care problems, but none of the leaders is offering any specifics or s...
Aug 22, 2022

Sextortion cases up 50 per cent in Prince George
PRINCE GEORGE-RCMP are warning the public to be careful of a rising number of online sextortion cases. Sextortion is the practice of extorting money or sexual favors from someone by threatening to rev...
Aug 22, 2022

Post-secondary students feeling the housing crunch
PRINCE GEORGE-With just weeks left before classes are back in session, out-of-town post-secondary students are moving to Prince George. Some of whom are making use of the school's on-campus accommodat...
Aug 22, 2022

Ethics board: SD Gov. Noem may have 'engaged in misconduct’
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota ethics board on Monday said it found sufficient information that Gov. Kristi Noem may have "engaged in misconduct" when she intervened in her daughter's applica...
Aug 22, 2022

Authorities believe body found in reservoir is missing teen
TRUCKEE, Calif. (AP) - Authorities believe that a body found in a Northern California reservoir is that of 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who went missing after attending a large party at a Sierra Nevada ca...
Aug 22, 2022

Islanders sign defencemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov
EAST MEADOW, N.Y. (AP) - The New York Islanders have signed defencemen Noah Dobson and Alexander Romanov to three-year contracts. The Islanders also announced Monday the signing of forward Kieffer Bel...
Aug 22, 2022

Nova Scotia RCMP 'dysfunctions,' labour shortages predated 2020 mass shootings
HALIFAX - Most of Nova Scotia's senior RCMP staff believed there were "dysfunctions" at their division prior to the 2020 mass shootings and felt abandoned by their superiors in the aftermath, accordin...
Aug 22, 2022

Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A jury has heard closing arguments and begun deliberations in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury in Grand...
Aug 22, 2022

Quebec allowing four people per room in care homes, against coroner's recommendations
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department is allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents in the same room - a new directive that runs against recommendations by the coroner. Jean-Charles...
Aug 22, 2022