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Government needs to produce plan for dealing with veterans' backlog: Ombudsman
OTTAWA - The watchdog for Canadian veterans is urging the federal government to explain clearly how it plans to eliminate a backlog that is keeping thousands of former service members waiting to ...
Feb 22, 2020

Capitals' Alex Ovechkin becomes 8th player with 700 goals
NEWARK, N.J. - Alex Ovechkin has become the eighth player in NHL history to score 700 goals. The Washington Capitals star reached the milestone 4:50 into the third period against the New Jersey Devils...
Feb 22, 2020

Freeland agrees to NDP trade pitch in return for new NAFTA support: letter
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she wants to make Canada's trade negotiations more "transparent," by agreeing to proposals from the New Democrats to provide more details of ...
Feb 22, 2020

Unreleased report finds stop checks, searches of protesters unlawful: Watchdog
VANCOUVER - A civilian police watchdog has released a letter that was described Thursday as "explosive" by a supporter of hereditary chiefs opposed to a pipeline in northern British Columbia...
Feb 22, 2020

Official says she would have denied Desmond a gun licence had she known more
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An inquiry investigating why a former Canadian soldier fatally shot three family members and himself heard Thursday from a firearms official who said ...
Feb 22, 2020

Unreleased report finds stop checks, searches of protesters unlawful: Watchdog
VANCOUVER - A civilian police watchdog has released a letter that was described Thursday as "explosive" by a supporter of hereditary chiefs opposed to a pipeline in northern British Columbia...
Feb 22, 2020

Thumbprint, hairbrush: Franklin wreck reveals sailors' lives
It was as if the past literally reached out and touched him. Parks Canada archaeologist Marc-Andre Bernier spent last summer diving into the wreck of the HMS Erebus, the flagship of the Franklin exped...
Feb 22, 2020

Canada's Kingsbury finishes first in moguls for 62nd World Cup victory
TAZAWAKO, Japan - Canada's Mikael Kingsbury earned his 62nd World Cup victory Saturday, winning the gold medal in the men's moguls event. Kingsbury, the reigning Olympic moguls champion from Deux Mont...
Feb 22, 2020

The Blazers 10 year dynasty
KAMLOOPS - On Blazers Memorial Cup Anniversary weekend, here is a look at their incredible and historic run of success between 1984 and 1995.
Feb 22, 2020 Image credit: Kamloops Blazers

Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs arrive in Kahnawake, Que.
KAHNAWAKE, Que. - Traditional chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation have arrived in Kahnawake, Que., as they continue their tour of Mohawk communities in eastern Canada where rail blockades in solid...
Feb 22, 2020

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