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Public sector strike: Quebec government calls on unions to submit counter-offer
MONTREAL - Quebec's treasury board president is imploring unionized workers to table a counter-offer to the government's last contract proposal ahead of this week's planned, provincewide public sector...
Nov 19, 2023

Timberwolves beat MacEwan Griffins
PRINCE GEORGE - The UNBC Timberwolves welcomed the MacEwan Griffins last night (Nov. 18) and both men's and women's teams brought home a win. While the men put the cherry on top of a 4-0 weekend for U...
Nov 19, 2023

William Nylander scores in overtime, Maple Leafs down Wild 4-3 for Swedish sweep
STOCKHOLM - William Nylander scored at 3:09 of overtime as the Toronto Maple Leafs survived a blown 3-1 lead in the third period to down the Minnesota Wild 4-3 on Sunday and pick up their fourth strai...
Nov 19, 2023

Canada criminalized 'condoning, denying or downplaying' the Holocaust: is it working?
OTTAWA - Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid ...
Nov 19, 2023

Australia restricts India to 240 all out in Cricket World Cup final as Kohli makes 54
AHMEDEBAD, India (AP) - Australia appeared in command of the Cricket World Cup final on Sunday after restricting India to 240 all out, with a disciplined bowling performance by the five-time champions...
Nov 19, 2023

Tiny beetle to the rescue of N.S. hemlocks attacked by woolly invasive insect
FREDERICTON - On comfortable beds of wood shavings inside multiple boxes, 3,600 Laricobius nigrinus beetles made overnight journeys last month from the forests of British Columbia all the way to south...
Nov 19, 2023

Argentines begin voting in an election that could lead a Trump-admiring populist to the presidency
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentines began voting Sunday in a presidential runoff pitting the candidate of the ruling Peronist party against a populist, anti-establishment candidate whose electio...
Nov 19, 2023

Freeland to present fall fiscal update Tuesday as cost-of-living dominates politics
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the fall fiscal update on Tuesday, which is expected to focus on housing and affordability as the Liberal government struggles to regain favour w...
Nov 19, 2023

Gaza's Health Ministry says 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Shifa hospital
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) - Gaza's Health Ministry says 30 premature babies have been evacuated from Shifa Hospital and will be transferred to hospitals in Egypt. Medhat Abbas, a spokesman for the ...
Nov 19, 2023

B.C. stream watchers link 'unprecedented' coho salmon kill to tire toxin and drought
VANCOUVER - John Barker has been volunteering with the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society for more than 20 years and says he's never seen anything like it, dozens of coho salmon, pre-spawn and silver...
Nov 19, 2023