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First game for resurrected women's hockey team after long discrimination battle
FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick women’s varsity hockey team is set to play its first game Saturday, after a former player successfully fought to have it resurrected in the name of ...
Oct 12, 2018
Facebook: Hackers accessed personal data from 29M accounts
NEW YORK - Facebook says hackers accessed a wide swath of information - ranging from emails and phone numbers to more personal details like sites visited and places checked into - from millions of acc...
Oct 12, 2018
Canada gives $50M to UN Palestinian refugee agency that U.S. says is 'flawed'
OTTAWA - Canada is contributing $50 million to the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency - after the United States decided to stop funding what it called an “irredeemably flawed” organ...
Oct 12, 2018
Quebecers to wake up Oct. 17 to some of the strictest cannabis laws in Canada
MONTREAL - Doctor Melissa Genereux, head of public health in Quebec’s Eastern Townships region, thought she had persuaded local officials not to introduce a strict cannabis bylaw in the areaR...
Oct 12, 2018
Ontario Catholic school board scraps restrictive fundraising policy
TORONTO - A Catholic school board in southern Ontario bowed to overwhelming pressure and rescinded a policy change that would have barred fundraising for organizations that might support abortion, eut...
Oct 12, 2018
Medicine River Wildlife Centre creeping towards completion of new hospital
Inch by inch, the Medicine River Wildlife Centre is getting closer to the long-awaited completion of its new animal hospital. This winter, staff will need to continue taking care of animals inside a m...
Oct 12, 2018
Atlantic Canada sees heavy rains, winds from post-tropical storm Michael
HALIFAX - Post-tropical storm Michael soaked much of Atlantic Canada Friday as it continued its northerly track after laying waste to parts of Florida. Environment Canada issued a slew of special weat...
Oct 12, 2018
School bus drives into pool after crash hitting car
ORLANDO, Fla. - A Florida school bus plowed through a fence and into a backyard pool after a collision, but no one on board was hurt. The Orlando Sentinel reports that nine students and the driver wer...
Oct 12, 2018
Queen Latifah 'unable to accept' award for personal reasons
PHILADELPHIA - Queen Latifah is “unable to accept” an award named for a pioneering opera singer, citing personal reasons. The Marian Anderson Award made the announcement on its website. Th...
Oct 12, 2018
Golf Canada CEO defends public courses after Toronto mayoral candidate threatens closures
TORONTO - Laurence Applebaum couldn’t help but take it personally when Toronto mayoral candidate Jennifer Keesmaat proposed shutting down some of the city’s public courses. It didn’t...
Oct 12, 2018