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High school coach says Game 3 hero OG Anunoby has always had understated swagger
OG Anunoby's nonchalant reaction to his audacious game-winning three pointer in Game 3 of the Toronto Raptors' second-round NBA series with Boston garnered almost as much social media attention Thursd...
Sep 04, 2020

Ex-Canadian Forces reservist charged in 'race war' case back in court Jan. 12
WASHINGTON - The lawyer for accused neo-Nazi Patrik Mathews will be back in court Jan. 12 to try to convince a Maryland judge to drop weapons charges against the former Canadian Forces reservist. In a...
Sep 04, 2020

Tech sector extends slump, dragging stock market lower again
Stocks are falling again on Wall Street Friday, adding to the market's losses a day after its biggest sell-off since June. The S&P 500 was down 1.2% in afternoon trading after initially climbing 0...
Sep 04, 2020

Russia denial of Navalny poisoning taken with grain of salt: Champagne
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says Canada and its G7 allies are taking Russia's denials of the poisoning of Alexei Navalny with a "grain of salt." Champagne tells The C...
Sep 04, 2020

Canada not on pace to meet target to cut methane emissions by 2025
OTTAWA - Environmental advocates say Canada's new methane regulations are going to leave the country well shy of its stated goal to cut emissions of the gas nearly in half in the next five years. Prim...
Sep 04, 2020

$6.3 million announced to improve green construction practices in Alberta
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The federal government is pumping funding into the province to allow for research into green and energy-efficient construction.Minister of Economic Development Mlanie Joly announced g...
Sep 04, 2020

Rocky RCMP Report August 28- September 3
This is a report released to the media from the Rocky Mountain House (RMH) RCMP giving a brief description of various crimes and call-ins, both solved and unsolved throughout the community between the...
Sep 04, 2020

Canadian leg of Yukon Quest dog-sled race is cancelled due to pandemic
WHITEHORSE - The Canadian side of the Yukon Quest dog-sled race has been cancelled for 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yukon Quest says the annual 1,600-kilometre race had already bee...
Sep 04, 2020

Canadian leg of Yukon Quest dog-sled race is cancelled due to pandemic
WHITEHORSE - The Canadian side of the Yukon Quest dog-sled race has been cancelled for 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yukon Quest says the annual 1,600-kilometre race had already bee...
Sep 04, 2020

Lawyer starts job as first Indigenous president of Canadian Bar Association
WINNIPEG - Brad Regehr is a bit surprised to see the attention he's getting over his new job. The Manitoba lawyer and member of the Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation in Saskatchewan is the first ...
Sep 04, 2020