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WNBA to hold pre-season game between Sparks and Storm in Edmonton on May 5
The WNBA is coming back to Canada for a pre-season game in Edmonton. The Los Angeles Sparks will face the Seattle Storm on May 5 at Rogers Place. It's the second year in a row a Canadian city has host...
Mar 7, 2024
Canada coach Bev Priestman takes positives from soggy CONCACAF W Gold Cup exit
Jessie Fleming did everything but score from the penalty spot in the CONCACAF W Gold Cup semifinal. Sadly the 25-year-old from London, Ont., was not the only one. American goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher sto...
Mar 7, 2024
Government closes bottom-contact fishing near rare B.C. coral reef
VANCOUVER - Federal authorities have closed Canada's only known live coral reef in the Pacific Ocean to all commercial and recreational bottom-contact fishing. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the ind...
Mar 7, 2024
Canada 'will be there' to help two Michaels after their detention in China: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is pushing back on the notion that Canada's willingness to help two citizens who were detained in China is an acknowledgement they engaged in espionage on Ottawa...
Mar 7, 2024
As Ottawa reels over multiple homicide, a look at recent mass killings across Canada
Ottawa is reeling after police said six people, including four children, were found dead Wednesday evening in a townhouse in the south-end Barrhaven suburb. Here's a look at recent examples of mass ki...
Mar 7, 2024
B.C. researcher says liver oil, meat trade threaten deepwater shark populations
Prof. Nick Dulvy recalls when the northern cod fishery collapsed back in 1992. "That was nothing short of a social and economic disaster for Canada," Dulvy said, who's a biology professor at Simon Fra...
Mar 7, 2024
New web service available to book campsites in Alberta
Camping enthusiasts in Alberta have a new online tool where they can book their trips.Alberta Parks introduced a new camping reservation platform this year. Officials said in the first 10 days since t...
Mar 7, 2024
Trudeau says some Pro-Palestinian protests cross line into hate, harassment
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says pro-Palestinian protests that include hatred or harassing behavior cross a line. Trudeau says he's heard from too many members of Canada's Jewish community ...
Mar 7, 2024
Province asking water license users to switch to online service
The Government of Alberta is asking water license users to move their license online.Officials said there are roughly 25,000 water licenses in Alberta. Many of the licenses issued before Nov. 2021 sti...
Mar 7, 2024
Manitoba's Reid Carruthers joins Saskatchewan's Mike McEwen in Brier playoffs
REGINA - Manitoba's Reid Carruthers has clinched a playoff spot at the Canadian men's curling championship. Carruthers, whose team is skipped by Brad Jacobs, scored five points in the second end again...
Mar 7, 2024