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Kuznetsov hat trick powers Capitals to 4-3 OT win over Canucks
VANCOUVER - Head coach Bruce Boudreau left the second-intermission pep talk to one of his leaders on Friday. His Vancouver Canucks were down 2-0 to the Washington Capitals after a shaky start to the g...
Mar 12, 2022

B.C. ski hills, churches, campuses and homes preparing for Ukrainian refugees: Horgan
VICTORIA - British Columbia is making room to accommodate potentially thousands of Ukrainians fleeing as Russia's invasion pushes further into their country, says Premier John Horgan. Horgan said Frid...
Mar 11, 2022

'Get a hobby,' B.C. premier tells those considering protesting COVID-19 mandates
VICTORIA - A protest planned for around the British Columbia legislature over COVID-19 mandates has drawn sharp criticism from the province's premier. Video posted on social media says a convoy of veh...
Mar 11, 2022

Cyberspace making Canadian secrets more vulnerable, spy service official warns
OTTAWA - A senior official at Canada's spy service says the expansion of cyberspace is making it easier for foreign adversaries to pilfer secrets. Cherie Henderson, an interim assistant director with ...
Mar 11, 2022

Texas clinics’ lawsuit over abortion ban ‘effectively over’
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas abortion providers on Friday conceded a final blow to their best hope of stopping the nation's most restrictive abortion law after a new ruling ended what little path forwar...
Mar 11, 2022

Famed Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville up for sale
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - The downtown Nashville, Tennessee record store that was opened by Opry legend Ernest Tubb in 1947 and has been a landmark in country music for decades will close as the buildin...
Mar 11, 2022

Moe apologizes for ‘two classes of citizen’ remark
Premier Scott Moe explicitly apologized Thursday for comments he made more than a month ago on the vaccine passport policy - comments that some were offended by.On the day he announced the proof of va...
Mar 11, 2022

No victims, no foul: Alberta premier files defence in defamation suit
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney has filed his defence in a defamation lawsuit brought against him over his remarks on the release of the Inquiry into supposed misinformation about the province...
Mar 11, 2022

Russians targeting Ukrainian food supply, including grain silos and ports: minister
OTTAWA - Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says Russian forces are targeting Ukrainians' food supply, including their stores of grain. Bibeau, who today attended an emergency meeting of G7 agri...
Mar 11, 2022

Man behind 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia came from dysfunctional family: uncle
HALIFAX - A close relative of the man who disguised himself as a Mountie and fatally shot 22 people in Nova Scotia says the killer was a lifelong scammer and opportunist raised in a deeply dysfunction...
Mar 11, 2022