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Ontario's Dino Rossi steps down from Canada Soccer board of directors
Dino Rossi has resigned from Canada Soccer's board of directors, saying "football doesn't come first at Canada Soccer these days." Rossi, a longtime soccer administrator, was elected to the board repr...
Feb 9, 2024

Saskatchewan Colleges expecting to see more international students despite policy changes
Thanks to recent policy changes from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), Suncrest College is expecting more international students in 2024.While the changes will reduce the overall nu...
Feb 9, 2024

Mixed reactions to $898M construction cost for P.A. hospital expansion project
An updated price tag for construction on Prince Albert's Victoria Hospital Expansion project has caught some people off guard.The Government of Saskatchewan announced last week that they had come to t...
Feb 9, 2024

A 4.6-magnitude earthquake shakes greater Los Angeles. No reports of major damage
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) - An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.6 struck the Southern California coast near Malibu on Friday afternoon and was widely felt in the Los Angeles region. There were n...
Feb 9, 2024

Small plane with 5 people aboard makes emergency landing on southwest Florida interstate
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) - A small airplane with five people aboard collided with a vehicle as it made an emergency landing on Interstate 75 in southwest Florida Friday afternoon, bringing traffic to a halt ...
Feb 9, 2024

COC still looks to appeal Russian team figure-skating bronze despite ISU explanation
The Canadian Olympic Committee says it continues to believe Canada's figure skating team deserves the bronze medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, and a statement from the International Skating Union ...
Feb 9, 2024

Analysts: Canada could see one-stop shop for sports streaming, but not in near future
While Canadian sports broadcasting powerbrokers have worked together on occasion in the past, it's unlikely they'd follow the path of their counterparts in the United States and team up again in the n...
Feb 9, 2024

Magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Mauna Loa volcano on Hawaii's Big Island; no tsunami expected
HONOLULU (AP) - A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the world's largest active volcano on Friday - Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii - knocking items off shelves in nearby towns but not immediately ...
Feb 9, 2024

Indigenous groups applaud as Supreme Court upholds Ottawa's Indigenous child welfare law
Indigenous communities and leaders across the country cheered Friday as the Supreme Court of Canada upheld the federal government's child welfare law, affirming that First Nations, Mtis and Inuit have...
Feb 9, 2024

New payment model sees 16.5% jump in B.C. family doctors, but more needed: minister
VANCOUVER - Health Minister Adrian Dix says the number of family doctors in British Columbia is increasing, but there are still almost 900,000 people without a primary care provider. He says the New D...
Feb 9, 2024