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Canada tops pool at world junior men's hockey championship with 4-1 win over Finland
EDMONTON - Canada clinched first place in its pool and a quarterfinal matchup against the Czech Republic with a 4-1 win over Finland at the world junior hockey championship in Edmonton Thursday.Dylan ...
Dec 31, 2020
A year of reflection has Beaudry eager for 2021
PRINCE GEORGE - While 2020 didn't go the way many of us had hoped, it was actually 2019 that was far from what biathlete Sarah Beaudry was hoping for, admitting fatigue and feeling burnt out from the ...
Dec 31, 2020
B.C.'s top doctor says 'start 2021 in the right space' by not gathering to celebrate
VICTORIA - British Columbia's provincial health officer is urging people to start 2021 by following COVID-19 precautions to prevent a surge in cases similar to those in other jurisdictions. Dr. Bonnie...
Dec 31, 2020
Minneapolis police release officer video in fatal shooting
MINNEAPOLIS - Police in Minneapolis on Thursday released body-camera video from a traffic stop one night earlier that ended with a man shot dead, an extraordinarily quick move aimed at stemming public...
Dec 31, 2020
Raptors' Siakam benched against Knicks reportedly as disciplinary move
TAMPA, Fla. - Pascal Siakam has apparently paid the price for his late-game unsportsmanlike behaviour. The Raptors chose not to play Siakam on Thursday against the visiting New York Knicks, starting N...
Dec 31, 2020
California hospitals at 'brink of catastrophe'; 25,000 dead
LOS ANGELES - California surpassed 25,000 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic, reporting the grim milestone Thursday as an ongoing surge swamps hospitals and pushes nurses and doctors t...
Dec 31, 2020
Local restaurants worry about long-term effects of early NYE booze ban
PRINCE GEORGE - It's not the order businesses are frustrated about most, it's the timing of it."I was definitely frustrated when I heard the news," says Fallen Moreland, owner of the White Goose Bistr...
Dec 31, 2020
Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year
New York City police turned to familiar tactics ahead of Thursday's New Year's Eve celebrations, deploying bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks intended to guard against explosions. Bu...
Dec 31, 2020
Last of singing McGuire Sisters dies in Vegas; Phyllis, 89
LAS VEGAS - Phyllis McGuire, the last surviving member of the three singing McGuire Sisters who topped the charts with several hits in the 1950s, has died. She was 89. The lead singer and younger sist...
Dec 31, 2020
Shutdown, impeachment, virus: Chaotic Congress winds down
WASHINGTON - Congress is ending a chaotic session, a two-year political firestorm that started with the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history, was riven by impeachment and a pandemic, an...
Dec 31, 2020