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New Brunswick town stakes claim to world's oldest basketball court
ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - For years, it lay hidden under drab blue carpet on the top floor of a non-descript building that housed everything from a printing press and dance hall to a gym and storeroom. But ...
May 31, 2018
Transportation Safety Board to release findings on sunken tugboat off B.C. coast
VANCOUVER - Results are expected today from an investigation into what caused a tugboat to run aground off British Columbia’s coast in October 2016, spilling thousands of litres of fuel into the...
May 31, 2018
Original map of Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood up for auction
LONDON - The original version of a map that entranced generations of children is up for auction at Sotheby’s. The auctioneer said Thursday that E.H. Shepard’s map of the Hundred Acre Wood,...
May 31, 2018
Stray, disabled kitten uses Lego wheelchair to scoot around with littermates
SUSSEX, N.B. - A stray kitten that was found in a New Brunswick barn with two broken legs is being given a second chance, thanks to a lot of care - and a Lego wheelchair. Champ was rescued by Cat Resc...
May 31, 2018
France launches lottery to help restore chateaux, monuments
PARIS - President Emmanuel Macron is launching a national lottery to help restore France’s magnificent chateaux and other historic monuments. Macron is kicking off the project Thursday with a vi...
May 31, 2018
Harvey Weinstein indicted on rape, criminal sex act charges
NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein was indicted on rape and criminal sex act charges, furthering the first criminal case to arise from a slate of sexual misconduct allegations against the former movie mogul....
May 31, 2018
CARTOON 05-31-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 05-31-2018
May 31, 2018
In the news today, May 31
Six stories in the news for Thursday, May 31 --- CANADA AWAITS U.S. DECISION ON STEEL-ALUMINUM DUTIES The federal government is waiting to hear from Washington on whether the U.S. will impose punishin...
May 31, 2018
Trump hits back at Trudeau's criticism of 'punitive' U.S. metal tariffs
WASHINGTON - Justin Trudeau drew the ire of Donald Trump late Thursday, after warning of a new turning point in Canada-U.S. relations when the U.S. president made good on a threat to impose crippling ...
May 31, 2018
Wayne Millard made plans for girlfriend's birthday before death, trial hears
TORONTO - An aviation executive whose death was initially ruled a suicide had been making plans to celebrate his girlfriend’s birthday before he was found with a bullet lodged in his brain, a To...
May 31, 2018