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Andrew Weaver leaves B.C. Greens to sit as Independent, cites family health
VICTORIA - Andrew Weaver is leaving British Columbia's Green party to sit as an Independent. The former party leader says in a news release that he will continue to sit as the legislature member ...
Jan 15, 2020
Andrew Weaver leaves B.C. Greens to sit as Independent, cites family health
VICTORIA - Andrew Weaver is leaving British Columbia's Green party to sit as an Independent. The former party leader says in a news release that he will continue to sit as the legislature member ...
Jan 15, 2020
Bolts G Vasilevskiy, Rangers D DeAngelo, Flames G Talbot named 3 stars of week
NEW YORK - Tampa Bay goaltender Andrei Vasilevskiy, New York Rangers defenceman Tony DeAngelo and Calgary goaltender Cam Talbot are the NHL's three stars of the week. Vasilevskiy won three games...
Jan 15, 2020
Canada's Marchak headed to Buckingham Palace for Rugby League World Cup draw
Mandy Marchak is headed to Buckingham Palace. The 35-year-old rugby international from Winnipeg, who now calls Victoria home, is representing Canada at Thursday's draw for the 2021 Rugby League W...
Jan 15, 2020
Teck Resources to pay $2 million for SunMine solar project at Kimberley, B.C.
VANCOUBER, B.C. - Mining company Teck Resources Ltd. says it is purchasing the SunMine solar electricity generating facility in B.C. from the City of Kimberley. The Vancouver-based comp...
Jan 15, 2020
TSB chair says agency wants answers in deadly Ukraine airline crash
OTTAWA - Canadian air-crash investigators are being given access to the wreckage and have been tapped to help unlock the contents of the data recorders from a Ukraine International Airlines plane down...
Jan 15, 2020
Blizzard warning for region of southern B.C. as snow, frigid conditions continue
VANCOUVER - A powerful snowstorm that has closed part of Highway 1 east of Vancouver, shuttered every public school and university across southern Vancouver Island and Metro Vancouver, has&n...
Jan 15, 2020
Local Mounties launch attempted murder investigation
PRINCE GEORGE - Prince George RCMP has an attempted murder investigation on its hands. Just before 8 o'clock last night, officers responded to a 911 report of multiple shots fired on Wiggins Place, of...
Jan 15, 2020
Gigi Hadid among potential jurors for Weinstein's rape trial
NEW YORK - Supermodel Gigi Hadid is in the running to be a juror in Harvey Weinstein's New York City rape trial after telling a judge Monday that she thinks she'd be able to "keep an open mind on the ...
Jan 15, 2020
Avenatti arrested for new alleged crimes while on bail
LOS ANGELES - Michael Avenatti, the brash former attorney for the porn actress Stormy Daniels, was arrested for allegedly violating bail by committing numerous financial crimes to conceal assets from ...
Jan 15, 2020