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Quebec players taunted with racial slurs at national baseball championships in N.B.
MONTREAL - An official with the Quebec team competing at last weekend's men's national baseball championships in New Brunswick is criticizing the way Baseball Canada handled racist taunts directe...
Aug 29, 2019

Golfer Scott McCarron aims for three-peat at Shaw Charity Classic
CALGARY - Scott McCarron likes the sound of being referred to as the two-time defending champion of the Shaw Charity Classic. "Let's see if we can make it three," said McCarron, who carded a final rou...
Aug 29, 2019

Quebec players taunted with racial slurs at national baseball championships in N.B.
MONTREAL - An official with the Quebec team competing at last weekend's men's national baseball championships in New Brunswick is criticizing the way Baseball Canada handled racist taunts directe...
Aug 29, 2019

Oklahoma opioid ruling could pressure pharma companies to settle in BC: experts
VANCOUVER - An Oklahoma court ruling that found Johnson & Johnson helped fuel the state's opioid crisis and ordered the company to pay US$572 million could persuade drug manufacturers to...
Aug 29, 2019

St. Louis Blues goalie Jordan Binnington enjoying spotlight after long road
TORONTO - Jordan Binnington used to fly under the radar as he methodically went about his summer training. After a head-turning, seemingly-out-of-nowhere rookie campaign capped by a Stanley Cup v...
Aug 29, 2019

Billboard company 'appalled' no one taking ownership of Bernier ads
OTTAWA - The owner of the billboards that featured ads promoting Maxime Bernier and his stance on immigration said they would have stayed up had the third-party group that paid for them not left his c...
Aug 29, 2019

Ottawa, B.C. to push electrification of gas industry to cut carbon emissions
SURREY, B.C. - The federal and British Columbia governments want to power the production of the natural gas industry in the province using electricity. As part of an agreement announced Thursday, the ...
Aug 29, 2019

Paving project on Melfort's Saskatchewan Drive entering last leg
Drivers travelling along Saskatchewan Drive in Melfort can soon expect a smooth ride.Throughout the summer, the City of Melfort and their contractors have been working on preparing Saskatchewan Drive ...
Aug 29, 2019 Saskatchewan Drive in Melfort is being paved from the railway tracks north of the Canalta Hotel to the Highway 41A intersection on the west side. (Mat Barrett/northeastNOW Staff)

Quebec boards say they have more classes than teachers as kids return to school
MONTREAL - As thousands of Quebec students return to class this week, school boards say they're short of teachers to educate them. Gina Guillemette, a spokeswoman for the Montreal-area ...
Aug 29, 2019

Erin bringing heavy rain to parts of the Maritimes, warnings in effect
HALIFAX - The remnants of post-tropical storm Erin were expected to bring heavy rain overnight to a fairly narrow band of the western Maritimes. Bob Robichaud, warning preparedness meteorologist ...
Aug 29, 2019