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Toronto Wolfpack look to add promotion to rugby league success story
TORONTO - For Toronto Wolfpack coach Paul Rowley, it’s another exciting, bone-rattling day at the office - albeit with a big prize at stake. His fledgling rugby league team - rugby’s first...
Sep 08, 2017
Seeking asylum, selling pot, building pipelines: how politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - It’s been a week of strategizing by all three federal parties, with the Liberal caucus talkfesting in Kelowna, B.C., the Conservatives meeting in Winnipeg, and the NDP leadership candid...
Sep 08, 2017
Slovak star Sagan takes second straight Quebec race ahead of Avermaet
QUEBEC - Peter Sagan won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec for a second year in a row and claimed his 100th career race victory in a tight final sprint on Friday. Sagan, the Slovak leader of the Bora ...
Sep 08, 2017
Wildfire danger forces evacuation of Waterton Lakes National Park
WATERTON, Alta. - A popular national park in the southwestern corner of Alberta was under a mandatory evacuation order Friday because a forecasted shift in wind was expected to heighten the wildfire d...
Sep 08, 2017
Some background on the new Speaker of the B.C. legislature
VICTORIA - Political observers were surprised Friday when Opposition Liberal member Darryl Plecas accepted the role of Speaker, despite earlier reassurances he’d given that he would not consider...
Sep 08, 2017
Ninth annual Grilled Cheese Invitational raises more funds for prostate cancer
BIG 105 and 106.7 The Drive held their 9th annual Grilled Cheese Invitational on Friday. The tasty event once again brought in plenty of cheddar for the Prostate Cancer Centre who had The Man Van on s...
Sep 08, 2017
RCMP targeting noisy vehicles in Red Deer
Red Deer RCMP and Community Peace Officers are continuing their efforts to cut down on the amount of excessive vehicle noise in the city. Between July 4 and August 22, Mounties and CPOs on patrol issu...
Sep 08, 2017
The Current Plight of Clowns
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Plight of Modern Clowns The past couple of years have been hard for clowns, but does that mean it's time to hang up the red nose and oversized shoes? I...
Sep 08, 2017
Chickens Evacuate Florida and a 7-Year-Old Finds Excalibur
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! This Week [September 3-9, 2017] A 7-year-old girl finds Excalibur, chickens evacuate south Florida, we reveal the winner of the Cheetos Museum's search for...
Sep 08, 2017
Other Nobel winners failed to persuade Suu Kyi to speak up for Rohingya in 2013
OTTAWA - Aung San Suu Kyi rebuffed three fellow Nobel laureates who tried in a private meeting four years ago to persuade her to speak up for Myanmar’s persecuted Muslim minority, The Canadian P...
Sep 08, 2017