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Northern Lights Quilters Guild donates 'cancer quilt' to local CIBC
The Melfort CIBC branch was recently presented with a 'cancer quilt', courtesy of the Northern Lights Quilters Guild.The Guild donated the quilt to CIBC, as an item to be included in their contest dra...
Sep 04, 2022
Quebec Liberals released costed platform promising $41 Billion in spending
MONTREAL - The Quebec Liberal Party has released a costed breakdown of its election promises, which includes $41 Billion in spending over five years. The party estimates the annual deficit would avera...
Sep 04, 2022
Verstappen wins Dutch Grand Prix to seal 10th win and extend F1 lead
ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) - Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen made quick work of a safety car restart to win the Dutch Grand Prix on Sunday in front of 100,000 adoring fans, and make it...
Sep 04, 2022
Jean Charest: Quick facts about the Conservative leadership candidate
OTTAWA - Jean Charest has had a long run in Canadian politics. He was a cabinet minister under Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney, a key "No" campaigner in the 1995 Quebec referend...
Sep 04, 2022
Plus ça change: Jean Charest tries to repeat history with Conservative leadership bid
OTTAWA - It's just after 9 a.m. on a Friday morning at Wilfrid's Restaurant in the Chteau Laurier and guests are helping themselves to a breakfast buffet when Jean Charest takes his seat in the corner...
Sep 04, 2022
Families and former patients seek access to federal 'Indian hospital' records
OTTAWA - Georgina Martin says she is still searching for answers about the treatment of her mother. Martin was born at the Coqualeetza Indian Hospital in British Columbia after her mother was confined...
Sep 04, 2022
B.C. scientists hopeful in fight against mites that puncture and kill honeybees
SURREY, B.C. - Chemistry professor Erika Plettner gestures towards beehives surrounded by tall, dry grasses as she explains the multiple pressures facing honeybees worldwide. Pesticides, pathogens and...
Sep 04, 2022
Fifty years after major Montreal art theft, trail has gone cold and nobody's talking
MONTREAL - Fifty years after what has been described as the biggest art heist in Canadian history, the thieves' identity remains a mystery, and nobody is keen to talk about it. From the Montreal polic...
Sep 04, 2022
Quebec election: Once a major force, Parti Québécois risks finishing with one seat
MONTREAL - As Parti Qubcois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon launched his party's election campaign, he described his candidates as a "Cinderella team" that would go further than people expect. It was ...
Sep 04, 2022
Survivor of Holocaust, Munich attack heads back to Germany
BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany (AP) - They call him the ultimate survivor: Shaul Ladany lived through a Nazi concentration camp and escaped the massacre of 11 fellow Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympic Games...
Sep 04, 2022