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Party leaders of different stripes seem to agree on involuntary addiction treatment
FREDERICTON - As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of British Columbia and New Brunswick appear to agree on one controversial issue: involuntary care for those with severe drug addictio...
Sep 26, 2024
'Life is hard': Living under a 29-year boil-water advisory in an Ontario First Nation
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. - Every other day, Derek Moonias drives 15 minutes to the airport in Neskantaga First Nation and fills his pickup truck with cases of bottled water flown in on the dime o...
Sep 26, 2024
Canada's Auger-Aliassime falls to Nishioka in Japan Open first round
TOKYO - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime is out of the Japan Open in the first round. Auger-Aliassime fell 7-6 (5), 3-6, 7-6 (5) to Japan's Yoshihito Nishioka in a three-hour-12-minute match at Ariake T...
Sep 25, 2024
DeBrusk scores second goal in overtime to give Canucks pre-season win over Flames
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Jake DeBrusk scored his second goal of the game 58 seconds into overtime as the Vancouver Canucks battled back from a late deficit to defeat the Calgary Flames 4-3 in an NHL exhibit...
Sep 25, 2024
Japanese court acquits a former boxer in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on death r...
Sep 25, 2024
Japanese court acquits a former boxer in a 1966 murder retrial after decades on death row
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court ruled Thursday that an 88-year-old former boxer was not guilty in a retrial for a 1966 quadruple murder case, reversing an earlier wrongful conviction after decades on de...
Sep 25, 2024
Kevin Koe skipping a three-man curling team at PointsBet Invitational
CALGARY - Kevin Koe will skip a three-man curling team for now. The four-time Canadian and two-time men's world champion dropped second Jacques Gauthier from his Glencoe Club team on the eve of the Po...
Sep 25, 2024
People with diabetes in lower-income areas at higher risk for amputations: report
TORONTO - The Canadian Institute for Health Information says more than 7,000 people with diabetes undergo a leg, foot or toe amputation every year - and the majority of those procedures could have bee...
Sep 25, 2024
Blue Jackets honor Johhny Gaudreau before their first home game since his death
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An emotional video tribute to Johnny Gaudreau and 13 seconds of silence - for his uniform number - opened the Columbus Blue Jackets' first game at Nationwide Arena since the star...
Sep 25, 2024
Winnipeg Jets hand Edmonton Oilers 6-1 loss in NHL pre-season
WINNIPEG - Neal Pionk produced a goal and three assists to lead the Jets to a 6-1 whipping of the Edmonton Oilers in an NHL pre-season game at the Canada Life Centre on Wednesday night. Adam Lowry, Br...
Sep 25, 2024
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