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Vancouver Whitecaps remain resilient despite tough travel schedule
VANCOUVER - After a rough week-long road trip, coach Marc Dos Santos says his Vancouver Whitecaps are returning home to what feels like a bit of a rude dinner guest. While the 'Caps (6-13-9) drop...
Aug 30, 2019
Province proposes oral health regulatory changes
VICTORIA-The BC government is posting proposed oral health regulatory changes with the goal of promoting more interprofessional practice, as well as providing more dental care options for British Colu...
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Appeals court reinstates lawsuit in SC church shooting case
RICHMOND, Va. - A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a Charleston church was reinstated Friday by...
Aug 30, 2019
Liberals drop candidate in Montreal riding over comments described as anti-Semitic
OTTAWA - The Liberal Party of Canada has dropped a Montreal-area candidate over past statements he made that were described as anti-Semitic by a Jewish advocacy group. Hassan Guillet will no...
Aug 30, 2019
Wildfire season is all but done
PRINCE GEORGE - With a wetter than normal summer, the BC Wildfire Service says the risk of a forest fire has all but gone up in smoke. Fire information Officer Forrest Tower says there are no bans in ...
Aug 30, 2019
MSNBC's O'Donnell retracts Trump story
NEW YORK - MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell on Wednesday retracted his story about supposed Russian ties to President Donald Trump's finances and apologized for reporting it - just as Trump's lawyer demande...
Aug 30, 2019
Chetwynd General suspends ER services for 12 hours
CHETWYND-Northern Health is informing the public of a 12 hour diversion due to a lack of registered nursing staff.Northern Health made a facebook post saying that Chetwynd General Hospital would have ...
Aug 30, 2019
Federer ends slow starts, rolls into fourth round at US Open
NEW YORK - Roger Federer didn't change much, outside of where his team was sitting. He certainly wasn't going to overreact to a couple of poor starts after all these years and do anything different wi...
Aug 30, 2019
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ends once-promising presidential bid
WASHINGTON - Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand dropped out of the presidential race Wednesday, abruptly ending a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability but inste...
Aug 30, 2019
Freeland says she brought up case of imprisoned Canadian, with Cuban foreign minister
MONTREAL - Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday she raised the case of Benjamin Tomlin, a Canadian citizen imprisoned in Cuba, during a meeting with her Cuban counterpart ea...
Aug 30, 2019