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2021 WHL Prospects Draft Lottery results to be announced June 2
The Western Hockey League has announced details for the 2021 WHL Prospects Draft Lottery.The results for the 2021 WHL Prospects Draft will be announced June 2 at 10 a.m. MT, premiering on the WHL's Yo...
Jun 01, 2021
Bombs in Afghan capital Kabul kill at least 10, wound 12
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Three bombs rattled the Afghan capital Kabul late Tuesday killing at least 10 people and plunging the city into darkness, an Afghan government spokesman said. Two bombs explo...
Jun 01, 2021
Lacombe County council holds the line on taxes
Lacombe County council has voted to hold the line on property taxes for its residents this year. At its May 27 meeting, council approved the Lacombe County 2021 operating and capital budgets and tax r...
Jun 01, 2021
A direction home: Bob Dylan album returned 48 years late
UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) - After nearly five decades of blowin' in the wind, a double Bob Dylan album finally has a direction home: A man living in San Francisco has mailed the vinyl back to an O...
Jun 01, 2021
Quebec open to searching residential school sites for possible graves
Quebec's Indigenous Affairs Minister says the province is open to searching the grounds of former residential schools for graves if survivors and their families are in favour. Ian Lafrenire says his o...
Jun 01, 2021
Search for unmarked graves to resume at former residential school in Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - A survivor of the largest residential school in the Maritimes says the search will continue for unmarked graves at the site north of Halifax. Dorene Bernard, a Mi'kmaq elder, confirmed today...
Jun 01, 2021
Discovery of Indigenous children's remains evidence of Canada's genocide: experts
OTTAWA - The discovery of 215 children's remains in an unmarked burial site in British Columbia has revived discussion about the residential school system, which the Truth and Reconciliation Commissio...
Jun 01, 2021
Toronto FC players, staff go their separate ways during international break
Brazilian fullback Auro plans to look for a nearby beach. Alejandro Pozuelo will be reunited with his pregnant wife in Spain. Jonathan Osorio, Richie Laryea and others are on international duty. Toron...
Jun 01, 2021
CTF says thousands of post-secondary employees collected bigger paycheques during downturn
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) is releasing documents showing more than 11,500 university and college employees in Alberta getting a pay raise in 2020 and costing taxpayers and students $29 m...
Jun 01, 2021
Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime eliminated in first round at French Open
PARIS - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the French Open after suffering a first-round loss. The No. 20 seed, from Montreal, lost 6-3, 7-6 (8), 4-6, 6-4 to Italian Andreas Seppi on Tuesday at ...
Jun 01, 2021