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Alberta awards prize to essay that argues women should pick babies over careers
EDMONTON - Alberta has awarded a prize to an essayist who argues the sexes are not equal and that women should pick babies over careers to avoid the province having to import more foreigners and risk ...
Aug 09, 2022
Jack Hanratty elevated to full-time coach of Canadian women's rugby sevens team
After almost 10 months in an interim role, Jack Hanratty has been appointed head coach of the Canadian women's rugby sevens team. Hanratty was an assistant coach with the women's team for sevens event...
Aug 09, 2022
Blue Jays sign veteran outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to one-year deal
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have signed outfielder Jackie Bradley Jr. to a one-year major-league contract. The 32-year-old was released by Boston on Thursday. He has a .210 average with 19 doubles...
Aug 09, 2022
Cougars send Armstrong to Red Deer in exchange for draft picks
PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars have acquired three WHL prospects draft picks (2nd round pick in 2023, 4th round pick in 2024, 5th round pick in 2025) from the Red Deer Rebels in exchange fo...
Aug 09, 2022
Man convicted of fatally shooting his 2 daughters in Texas
DALLAS (AP) - A suburban Dallas man who evaded arrest for more than 12 years after being accused of fatally shooting his two teenage daughters in 2008 was convicted Tuesday in their killings. Yaser Sa...
Aug 09, 2022
Man at centre of Saskatchewan Amber Alert a convicted child sex offender: records
REGINA - Court records show a man believed to be at the centre of an Amber Alert for two missing children is a convicted child sex offender. The documents say 50-year-old Benjamin Martin Moore, now of...
Aug 09, 2022
Jury picked in 2nd trial in Gov. Whitmer kidnap plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - After questions about guns, politics and COVID-19, a jury was selected Tuesday for the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitm...
Aug 09, 2022
Truck driver acquitted in deaths of 7 motorcyclists in 2019
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A jury on Tuesday acquitted a commercial truck driver of causing the 2019 deaths of seven motorcyclists in a head-on collision in northern New Hampshire. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 26,...
Aug 09, 2022
Grand jury declines to indict woman in Emmett Till killing
GREENWOOD, Miss. - A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the white woman whose accusation set off the lynching of Black teenager Emmett Till nearly 70 years ago, despite revelations about...
Aug 09, 2022
Police: Suspect in 4 Muslim men's killings detained
Albuquerque police say they have detained the "primary suspect" in the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico's largest city. The city's police chief on Tuesday announced the update on Twitter. Chi...
Aug 09, 2022