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Lions announce seven members of coaching staff not coming back for 2019
VANCOUVER - With a new head coach coming in, the B.C. Lions announced Thursday that seven members of its coaching staff will not be offered a contract for the 2019 season. The team said in a release t...
Dec 13, 2018
Scheer blames Trudeau's 'naive approach' to China for Huawei crisis
OTTAWA - The dilemma Canada finds itself in over its arrest of top Chinese business executive Meng Wanzhou is a result of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “naive approach” to China, C...
Dec 13, 2018
Police across Canada probe bomb threats as U.S. authorities dismiss 'hoax'
TORONTO - Police forces in cities across Canada investigated multiple bomb threats on Thursday as authorities in the U.S. said similar threats sent to dozens of locations appeared to be a hoax. Police...
Dec 13, 2018
Singapore’s 15-Story Car Vending Machine
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Dreaming of the matchbox cars he had as a child, Gary Hong, the manager of Autobahn Motors made a car vending machine to remind him of the many boyhood hou...
Dec 13, 2018
Is Xmas A Secular Way To Say Christmas?
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Or Not In today's world many misconceptions have been perpetuated-becoming modern day "facts"-when, in reality, myths and hearsay have taken over. Sorry to...
Dec 13, 2018
Lacombe Police targeting impaired drivers
Impaired drivers will be the target of Lacombe Police this holiday season. Police officials say officers will be conducting roadside checkstops at various locations throughout the city over the next s...
Dec 13, 2018
Quebec theatre incensed by $500 fine for fake cigarette smoked by actor
MONTREAL - Health inspectors who showed up at a recent Quebec City theatrical production took no issue with the actor centre stage in a giant penis costume. But after watching another actor light up a...
Dec 13, 2018
Team Canada veteran Alex Formenton listed day-to-day with leg injury
COLWOOD, B.C. - One of Canada’s two returning players was on crutches Thursday and awaiting word from doctors about when he can hit the ice again after suffering a leg injury Wednesday in a warm...
Dec 13, 2018
Canadian Paralympic skier Brian McKeever wins sprint gold at IPC World Cup event
VUOKATTI, Finland - Canada’s Brian McKeever won a gold medal in a five-kilometre cross-country ski race Thursday at the first stop in the IPC World Cup circuit. The 17-time-Paralympic medallist ...
Dec 13, 2018
Vancouver says court decision allows it to close illegal pot shops
Vancouver says a court decision has reaffirmed the city’s authority to shut down illegal marijuana dispensaries. In a news release, the city says the B.C. Supreme Court’s decision to order...
Dec 13, 2018