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Lethbridge youth acquitted of attempted murder, found guilty of aggravated sexual assault
LETHBRIDGE - A 20-year-old Lethbridge man has been found not guilty of attempted murder but convicted on multiple other counts - including aggravated sexual assault - following hearings and a trial th...
Mar 22, 2018
Canadians Shapovalov, Pospisil advance to second round of Miami Open
MIAMI - Denis Shapovalov advanced to the second round of the Miami Open tennis tournament with a 6-3, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (6) win over Serbia’s Viktor Troicki on Thursday. The 18-year-old from Richmond...
Mar 22, 2018
B.C. announces rebates, conditions for liquefied natural gas projects
VICTORIA - British Columbia is offering new conditions and tax incentives for liquefied natural gas projects in the province in a move to attract investment that could put the province’s minorit...
Mar 22, 2018
Jets star winger Patrik Laine to miss at least two games with bruise on left foot
WINNIPEG - Head coach Paul Maurice delivered some positive news Thursday to worried fans of injured Winnipeg Jets sniper Patrik Laine. The team’s leading goal-scorer isn’t seriously hurt, ...
Mar 22, 2018
Russian Embassy says Trudeau criticism of Putin unproductive, confrontational
OTTAWA - The Russian Embassy is firing back at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for criticizing President Vladimir Putin at a news conference this week. But a leading expert on Russia and the Arctic is d...
Mar 22, 2018
A mammoth story: How the FBI helped Canada get back a pair of tusks
OTTAWA - It was a late July afternoon when Kieran Shepherd got a call from the Canadian embassy in Washington with a message: The FBI had something pretty old that they wanted to give him. What they w...
Mar 22, 2018
CBSA officers make record seizure of suspected cocaine at Carway port of entry
RAYMOND, AB - The Canada Border Services Agency and RCMP are celebrating a significant bust of suspected cocaine at the Carway port of entry last weekend. During a media conference Thursday morning, M...
Mar 22, 2018
Mounties make arrest in 2015 death of mother in northern Manitoba
WINNIPEG - RCMP have charged a man with second-degree murder 2 1/2 years after a woman’s body was found in an isolated area on a remote Manitoba reserve. Crystal Andrews of the Gods Lake First N...
Mar 22, 2018
MacIntyre court case put over to April
The criminal case for former Innisfail-Sylvan Lake MLA Don MacIntyre has been put over to next month. MacIntyre was not in attendance Thursday morning as his case was spoken to at the Red Deer Courtho...
Mar 22, 2018
CNN chief Jeff Zucker says Fox News is propaganda machine
NEW YORK - CNN chief Jeff Zucker says that rival Fox News Channel is a propaganda machine that is doing an incredible disservice to the country. Zucker spoke Thursday at the Financial Times Future of ...
Mar 22, 2018