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6 killed, 13 injured in Las Vegas apartment building fire
LAS VEGAS - A fire in a three-story apartment building in downtown Las Vegas where residents were apparently using their stoves for heat killed six people and forced some residents to jump from upper-...
Dec 23, 2019
France says it carries out first armed drone strike in Mali
PARIS - France's defence ministry announced Monday it had carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven Islamic extremists in central Mali over the weekend. France joins a tiny group of coun...
Dec 23, 2019
Dancer born with one hand makes Radio City Rockettes history
NEW YORK - A dancer born with one hand is the first person with a visible disability ever hired by New York's famed Radio City Rockettes. "I don't want to be known as the dancer who has one hand, and ...
Dec 23, 2019
Residents of NW Syria flee new government offensive
BEIRUT - Syrian government forces pressed ahead Monday with a new military assault on the country's last rebel stronghold that began last week, an offensive that has set off a mass exodus of civilians...
Dec 23, 2019
Canadian 'whistleblower' detained for years in Middle East to learn fate Tuesday
MONTREAL - The family of a Canadian geologist jailed in Dubai on fraud charges is cautiously optimistic he'll be exonerated in a court hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Andre Gauthier...
Dec 23, 2019
Judge authorizes plan to transform six Quebec dailies into employee cooperatives
MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a plan that transforms six insolvent regional French-language newspapers across the province into employee cooperatives and reduces pen...
Dec 23, 2019
Company seeks injunction: Co-op, union in court over pickets at Regina refinery
REGINA - A nearly three-week labour dispute between a Saskatchewan petroleum refinery and hundreds of its workers moved from the picket line into the courtroom Monday, with the company seeking an inju...
Dec 23, 2019
Prince George minivan involved in fatal crash near Jasper
JASPER, AB - A teenage girl from Vancouver is dead after a two vehicle crash near Alberta's Jasper National Park.The collision happened Sunday afternoon on Highway 16 -- about 10 kilometres west of th...
Dec 23, 2019 Photo courtesy Yanick Richard
Raising Josh: Mother writes about experience raising son with Down syndrome
DAWSON CREEK- A "labour of love," that is what a mother of four is calling a story about her four adopted children, all four born with special needs.Judy Boyer and her husband John adopted their first...
Dec 23, 2019 Judy Boyer, launched her book in mid-December. Boyer's story talks about her struggles and her best moments, raising a child with special needs. (Courtesy of the Ministry of Children and Family Development.)
Interior mill workers to benefit from government support
PRINCE GEORGE - Some big news for mill workers and their families in the Interior as the provincial government has announced funding of $875,000.The funding will be going to 11 communities who have be...
Dec 23, 2019