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Feds, Irving ask trade tribunal to toss challenge to warship contract
OTTAWA - The federal government and Halifax-based Irving Shipbuilding are asking a trade tribunal to throw out a challenge to their handling of a high-stakes competition to design the navy’s new...
Dec 25, 2018
Stubborn young beluga won't stay away from the Maritimes
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. - A group of marine researchers says a young beluga whale is too attached to the Maritimes for his own good. Nepi, who’s estimated to be about four years old, was spotted in S...
Dec 25, 2018
Logan Boulet Effect: Death of player in Broncos crash highlighted organ donation
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - Hours after coming across the horrific scene at the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, Bernadine and Toby Boulet still hadn’t seen their son Logan. The couple from Lethbridge, Alta....
Dec 25, 2018
Mayor Romane says Innisfail to continue 'aggressive' approach in 2019
The mayor of Innisfail describes 2018 as an 'aggressive' year for the community. Jim Romane says their aggressive approach came from a strategic planning session that took place in late 2017 that laid...
Dec 25, 2018
Team Canada looks to defend hockey gold medal on home ice; starts Boxing Day
VICTORIA - It’s a Canadian Christmas tradition as enduring as gifts, gatherings and punch bowls of rum and egg nog. The world junior men’s hockey championship, which starts Boxing Day and ...
Dec 25, 2018
A look at the 10 nations competing at the 2019 world junior championship
The exhibition games are over and Canada is set to defend its gold medal when the puck drops on Boxing Day for the world junior hockey championship The top 10 junior hockey nations will face off betwe...
Dec 25, 2018
At least 27 dead after bus, truck collide in Congo
KINSHASA, Congo - A Congolese health official says at least 27 people are dead after a bus and a truck collided west of the capital, Kinshasa. Dr. Sylvain Yuma with the health ministry says the accide...
Dec 25, 2018
The Queen celebrates Christmas before annual speech
SANDRINGHAM, England - The Queen and other members of the Royal Family received cheers from a Christmas crowd when they arrived for a church service Tuesday on the grounds of one of the monarch’...
Dec 25, 2018
CARTOON 12-25-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 12-25-2018
Dec 25, 2018
Militants attack Libya's Foreign Ministry, 3 killed
BENGHAZI, Libya - A suicide bomber targeted the entrance of Libya’s Foreign Ministry in Tripoli on Tuesday, killing three people, including a prominent militia leader, according to security offi...
Dec 25, 2018