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Ontario's Tories eliminate free tuition for low-income students
TORONTO - Ontario has eliminated free tuition for low-income students as it attempts to trim a multibillion-dollar deficit, a move that - despite an accompanying tuition fee cut - is being slammed as ...
Jan 17, 2019
Barack Obama, former U.S. president, to speak in Vancouver in early March
VANCOUVER - Former United States president Barack Obama is coming to Vancouver. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says in a statement that Obama will speak March 5 during a late afternoon event at ...
Jan 17, 2019
Hundreds of people lost millions in GTA taxi fraud scam, police say
TORONTO - An ongoing fraud and identity theft operation targeting taxi riders in the Greater Toronto Area has already cost hundreds of people millions of dollars, city police said Thursday as they ann...
Jan 17, 2019
Canada Games torch passes through Lethbridge on its way to Red Deer
LETHBRIDGE - The MNP Canada Games Roly McLenahan Torch made a stop in Lethbridge on Wednesday, Jan. 16 as part of the official torch relay ahead of the 2019 Canada Winter Games taking place in Red Dee...
Jan 17, 2019
Fans buy 'Little House on the Prairie' star's memorabilia
GENOA TOWNSHIP, Mich. - More than 200 items belonging to “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert and her husband, Emmy-winning actor Timothy Busfield, have been purchased in an ...
Jan 17, 2019
Edmonton Eskimos sign Canadian kicker Hugh O'Neill to contract extension
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Eskimos re-signed Canadian kicker/punter Hugh O’Neill on Thursday to a contract extension through the 2020 season. O’Neill appeared in all 18 regular-season games w...
Jan 17, 2019
Lowry in but Leonard, Anunoby and Valanciunas to sit out Phoenix game
TORONTO - The Raptors got some good news Thursday with star point guard Kyle Lowry and C.J. Miles both pronounced fit to play against the Phoenix Suns. Toronto said earlier in the day that Lowry, Kawh...
Jan 17, 2019
Ponoka RCMP seize drugs and sawed-off shotgun, four charged
PONOKA- Four people faces charges after Mounties seized a firearm, drugs and stolen property from a residence in Ponoka. It was at around 8 a.m. on January 8 when Ponoka RCMP responded to a report of ...
Jan 17, 2019
The Most Dangerous Festival In The World: Onbashira
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Once every six years, thousands of people gather in the Suwa region to chop, ride, and raise massive 50-foot logs during Japan's Onbashira Festival-an anci...
Jan 17, 2019
Court Fools And Jesters Were Actually Very Intelligent
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! The Kings and Queens of history have been a confusing bunch, haven't they? They've been respectable, knowledgeable, worthy leaders, and they've been shocki...
Jan 17, 2019