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Habs' sponsors satisfied with team owner's apology for drafting Logan Mailloux
MONTREAL - Corporate sponsors for the Montreal Canadiens are saying they are satisfied with the apology from team owner Geoff Molson for drafting a player who was convicted of a sex crime in Sweden. R...
Jul 29, 2021
Habs' sponsors satisfied with team owner's apology for drafting Logan Mailloux
MONTREAL - Corporate sponsors for the Montreal Canadiens are saying they are satisfied with the apology from team owner Geoff Molson for drafting a player who was convicted of a sex crime in Sweden. R...
Jul 29, 2021
British Canadians frustrated by exclusion from U.K.'s new quarantine exemptions
OTTAWA - Many British Canadians are frustrated after being snubbed by a new plan to ease quarantine restrictions for entry to England and Scotland. The United Kingdom countries announced Wednesday tha...
Jul 29, 2021
Israel to offer 3rd COVID booster shot to older citizens
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's prime minister on Thursday announced that the country would offer a coronavirus booster to people over 60 who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennet...
Jul 29, 2021
Red Deer man charged in one of province's largest ever tobacco busts
An investigation by Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis has led to the seizure of an estimated $4.5 million of contraband tobacco.The agency says the seizure represents one of the largest in Alberta h...
Jul 29, 2021
N.S. politicians critiqued for vague response to threat of rising seas
HALIFAX - As Nova Scotia's provincial election campaign has unfolded amid deadly heat waves in Western Canada and catastrophic flooding in Europe, the topic of preparing the province for its own poten...
Jul 29, 2021
Calgary mayor says lifting remaining COVID-19 health orders 'height of insanity'
Calgary's mayor says it's the "height of insanity" that Alberta is moving ahead with removing almost all of its remaining COVID-19 public health orders.As of today, close contacts of people who test p...
Jul 29, 2021
Thurber trombonist taking her talents to McGill University
A Lindsay Thurber student has been accepted into McGill University's Schulich School of Music.The Montreal-based institution will welcome recent Thurber grad Malena Lorenson, a bass trombonist. She wi...
Jul 29, 2021
Calgary mayor says lifting remaining COVID-19 health orders 'height of insanity'
Calgary's mayor says it's the "height of insanity" that Alberta is moving ahead with removing almost all of its remaining COVID-19 public health orders. As of today, close contacts of people who test ...
Jul 29, 2021
International students face vaccine hurdles as they prep for campus life in Canada
TORONTO - Like many students eyeing in-class learning this fall, Nyle Maker is on the hunt for his second dose of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine before starting university in Hamilton. But unlike most, the...
Jul 29, 2021