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House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...
Jan 04, 2020
Study finds 2019 was a ‘banner year’ for female filmmakers
NEW YORK - Lulu Wang, Lorene Scafaria, Melina Matsoukas and Greta Gerwig led Hollywood to a record year for women in the director's chair. In 2019, women directed more of the most popular movies than ...
Jan 04, 2020
'Open wound:' Talk by poet who worked with Indigenous woman's killer to go ahead
REGINA - The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go aga...
Jan 04, 2020
Morozov scores in overtime as Russia beats Sweden 5-4 in world junior semis
OSTRAVA, Czech Republic - Russia will play for gold at the world junior hockey championship. Ivan Morozov scored his second goal of the game at 3:24 of overtime Saturday to lead his country ...
Jan 04, 2020
Montreal aircraft refuellers sit down with mediators as strike hits third day
The union representing employees who refuel the planes at two Montreal airports met with mediators Thursday as their strike dragged into its third day. Union representatives sat down with mediato...
Jan 04, 2020
Alberta reports first severe vaping-related lung illness to Public Health Agency
EDMONTON - Alberta has reported its first case of a severe vaping-related lung illness after treating a patient in hospital who was having difficulty breathing. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medi...
Jan 04, 2020
Trump's plan to curb teen vaping exempts some flavours
WASHINGTON - U.S. health officials will begin cracking down on most flavoured e-cigarettes that are popular with underage teenagers, but their plan includes major exceptions that benefit vaping manufa...
Jan 04, 2020
ROTHENBURGER: Let’s stand up and say what we mean, not just sort of
THE FOLLOWING QUOTE, not a word of a lie, is verbatim from an on-air media interview in which a guest is being asked about a political issue:"So, you know, can sort of propagating a fact using an elec...
Jan 04, 2020 (Image Credit: © Juan Jose Sanchez Melendez | Dreamstime.com )
Texas judge: Hospital can remove baby from life support
DALLAS - A Texas judge on Thursday sided with a hospital that plans to remove an 11-month-old girl from life support after her mother disagreed with the decision by doctors who say the infant is in pa...
Jan 04, 2020
Rod Stewart, son, accused of battery in New Year's Eve fight
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Rock icon Rod Stewart and his son are facing simple battery charges after an altercation with a security guard during a private event in a children's area at The Breakers hotel...
Jan 04, 2020
