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Federal cabinet ministers OK Nunavut iron ore mine temporary production increase
POND INLET, Nunavut - Federal cabinet ministers have approved a temporary production increase for an iron ore mine on the northern tip of Baffin Island, preventing potential job losses in Nunavut. Nor...
Oct 04, 2022

Missing: Christopher Crier, 16, of Maskwacis
Maskwacis RCMP are seeking public assistance in locating a missing male. Christopher Crier, 16, a resident of Samson First Nation, was last seen at his residence on Oct. 1. Mounties say there is conce...
Oct 04, 2022

Football Alberta high school football rankings
Football Alberta has announced its Weekly Top-10 Rankings for all four Tiers of 12-man high school football in the province and the 6-man rankings as well for the 2022 season. The teams are slotted in...
Oct 04, 2022

Vancouver Whitecaps hand CEO Axel Schuster four-year contract extension
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps have given CEO and sporting director Axel Schuster a four-year contract extension. Schuster has been with the club since November 2019 and has guided the 'Caps thro...
Oct 04, 2022

Toronto Arrows sign Canadian international fly half Shane O'Leary
TORONTO - The Toronto Arrows bolstered their backs Tuesday by signing Canadian international fly half Shane O'Leary for the 2023 Major League Rugby season. The 29-year-old O'Leary spent the last two y...
Oct 04, 2022

B.C. attorney general says increasing arrests to fight violent crime is 'futile'
VICTORIA - British Columbia's attorney general says the government has no plans to arrest its way out of the province's crime issues because it won't work. Murray Rankin says fighting crime by arresti...
Oct 04, 2022

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in Mar-a-Lago dispute
WASHINGTON (AP) - Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to step into the legal fight over the classified documents seized during an FBI search of his Florid...
Oct 04, 2022

MPs call for tight federal restriction on use of facial recognition technology
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for a moratorium on the use of facial recognition technology by federal police and Canadian businesses unless there is court authorization or input fro...
Oct 04, 2022

B.C. breaking its own law on climate-change reporting, Sierra Club tells court
VANCOUVER - An environmental group has gone to court against the British Columbia government for allegedly failing to report if its climate plans will achieve key greenhouse gas emissions targets, as ...
Oct 04, 2022

Ohio walleye scandal deals big blow to tournament fishing
They fish tournaments for a living so Canadians Jeff Gustafson and Chris Johnston aren't surprised by the public backlash created by the disqualification of two anglers from an Ohio walleye event afte...
Oct 04, 2022