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Habs forward Paul Byron helps save pilot after weekend floatplane crash in Quebec
Montreal Canadiens forward Paul Byron helped rescue a pilot of a floatplane that crashed Saturday in a lake in Quebec's Laurentians region, northwest of Montreal. The crash and the rescue occurred Sat...
Jul 25, 2022

With ERs on the brink, doctors explain what patients should consider before they go
TORONTO - A health-care staffing crisis and another wave of COVID-19 are pushing emergency departments across Canada to the brink, with wait times hitting new highs and several hospitals recently bein...
Jul 25, 2022

New mural, orange banners coming to downtown Williams Lake
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Williams Lake council approved two new projects in the downtown area: a mural that recognizes volunteer groups in the community and orange banners in recognition of Indigenous re...
Jul 25, 2022

More volunteers needed for new Monte Creek Fire Department
PRITCHARD, B.C. - Though the volunteer drive at the Pritchard Volunteer Fire Department (PVFD) on Saturday (July 23) was successful with around 10 new recruits leaving with applications in their hands...
Jul 25, 2022

UK to host 2023 Eurovision after Ukraine ruled too risky
LONDON (AP) - Next year's Eurovision Song Contest will be staged in Britain, organizers announced Monday, after concluding it is too risky to hold the much-beloved pop extravaganza in the designated h...
Jul 25, 2022

ROTHENBURGER: Is vigilantism the answer to stopping theft on our streets?
VIGILANTISM IS COMING to the streets of B.C. cities. First Penticton, now Kelowna. Will Kamloops be next?The Penticton group is called Clean Streets Penticton and consists of a group of people who go ...
Jul 25, 2022

Pope visits Canada, Commons hearing on Rogers outage : In The News for July 25
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of July 25 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Jul 25, 2022

House of Commons committee will hold two hearings on Rogers outage today
OTTAWA - The House of Commons industry committee will hold two hearings today about the Rogers outage that lasted more than 15 hours and left millions of Canadians in a communications blackout. The Ju...
Jul 25, 2022

MPs look into alleged political interference in N.S. shooting probe
OTTAWA - MPs on the House of Commons public safety committee meet today to explore whether there was political meddling with the RCMP as it investigated the April 2020 shootings in Nova Scotia. Just o...
Jul 25, 2022

Day 2 of Pope visit to include stops at a former residential school, Edmonton church
MASKWACIS - Pope Francis is expected to speak publicly for the first time on his Canadian visit at a meeting this morning with First Nations, Inuit and Mtis peoples in a community south of Edmonton. T...
Jul 25, 2022

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