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Who's sorry now? Not Kathy Griffin over Trump photo, video
LOS ANGELES - Kathy Griffin retracted her apology for a gory image of a fake Donald Trump head, saying anger against her was overblown and should be directed at Trump and his administration. A feisty ...
Aug 29, 2017
Woodbridge Striker earns national team stint after impressing Canada coach
ALLISTON, Ont. - Wednesday promises to be a special day for Michael Krzeminski. After catching the eye of Canada coach Octavio Zambrano while playing for the Woodbridge Strikers of League 1 Ontario, t...
Aug 29, 2017
Hehr becomes Canada's new sport minister while his hometown mulls Olympic bid
CALGARY - An 18-year-old Kent Hehr was playing on a rotten hockey team in Saskatchewan when his hometown of Calgary was the host city of the 1988 Winter Olympics. Canada’s new minister of sport ...
Aug 29, 2017
Khadr welcome at RDC: President
Everyone is welcome at Red Deer College, including former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr, the school’s president says. Khadr revealed to The Canadian Press over the weekend that he has been ac...
Aug 29, 2017
Local BMXers race to excellence at Nationals in Calgary
The Red Deer BMX Club has brought home 29 N plates from the National races in Calgary this past weekend. A total of 516 riders were present over the weekend in Calgary during the National races. 40 of...
Aug 29, 2017
Right whale spotted entangled in fishing gear off Quebec's Gaspe Peninsula
Fisheries and Oceans Canada said Tuesday a right whale got entangled in fishing gear off the coast of Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula. The department announced the whale was in a “extremely diffi...
Aug 29, 2017
CIBC report warns of education/skills gap unless post-secondary system changes
A CIBC economics report warns that Canada’s post-secondary institutions need to change their ways to begin producing enough graduates with the right skills to drive future economic growth. Autho...
Aug 29, 2017
Quebec to no longer give welfare cheques to asylum seekers in convention centre
MONTREAL - Quebec is cancelling its plan to distribute welfare cheques to asylum seekers at Montreal’s downtown convention centre. The province’s Employment Department announced today it w...
Aug 29, 2017
'I can't wait to prove I deserve to be here': Taylor Nill joins UBC staff
VANCOUVER - Blake Nill remembers trying to get away from the office during the hectic university football season to see his young children before they went to bed. Unfortunately it didn’t happen...
Aug 29, 2017
Court rules B.C. will have intervener status in Trans Mountain pipeline case
OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal is allowing British Columbia to be an intervener in a legal fight against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, but with some conditions. Several First Nations an...
Aug 29, 2017