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Small New Brunswick city celebrates Canadian major junior hockey championship
BATHURST, N.B. - One of the smallest hockey markets in Canada has big reason to celebrate, and fans in Bathurst, N.B., are doing just that. The Acadie-Bathurst Titan beat the host Regina Pats 3-0 Sund...
May 28, 2018
Halifax's newest navy ship is Canada's oldest: HMCS Oriole joins Atlantic Fleet
HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy’s longest serving commissioned vessel - a sailing ketch that was launched about 100 years ago - officially has a new home port. HMCS Oriole, a 31-metre tall shi...
May 28, 2018
Racial profiling: The complications of shopping while black in Canada
As Seattle-based Starbucks Corp. prepares to close 8,000 U.S. cafes Tuesday afternoon for racial-bias training, Canadian experts are drawing attention to racial profiling north of the border. They say...
May 28, 2018
'Last Cowboys' book chronicles legendary Utah rodeo family
ST. GEORGE, Utah - A Utah family that has produced several generations of rodeo champions is chronicled in a new book called “The Last Cowboys.” The Wrights family book written by New York...
May 28, 2018
'It doesn't bring my father back:' Arrest made in fatal Alberta gas and dash
THORSBY, Alta. - A man has been charged with second-degree murder seven months after a gas-station owner was killed in a gas and dash. Ki Yun Jo, 54, was struck and killed on Oct. 6 outside his Fas Ga...
May 28, 2018
Trudeau mum on pipeline front even as May 31 deadline looms
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau insists his government is going to get the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion built, but still has nothing to say about how, even as Kinder Morgan’s deadlin...
May 28, 2018
Discovery Wildlife Park owners plead guilty to two charges under Wildlife Act
Five hundred dollars in fines have been levied against a central Alberta zoo after its owners pled guilty in Red Deer traffic court on Monday for failing to notify Alberta Fish and Wildlife it would b...
May 28, 2018
WATCH: Victims and Survivors of Crime Week - Rights of Victims
n an effort to raise awareness of National Victims and Survivors of Crime Week, rdnewsNOW is taking a look at three different facets of what is available to someone when they become a victim. A victim...
May 28, 2018
Eight NBA players among invitees to Canada camp ahead of World Cup qualifiers
VANCOUVER - Managing a fluid roster is one of the challenges Canada’s national men’s team faces as it prepares for the next year’s FIBA Basketball World Cup in China. “This is ...
May 28, 2018
'You've gotta try it:' Teen paralyzed in bus crash going south for treatment
CALGARY - A young hockey player who was paralyzed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash is heading to the United States for specialized spinal treatment. Ryan Straschnitzki, who has been getting physiothe...
May 28, 2018