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Flood-stricken B.C. farmers given more time to apply for disaster assistance
VICTORIA - British Columbia has extended the deadline to apply for recovery help for farmers hit by last fall's devastating floods. A statement from the Ministry of Agriculture and Food says farmers w...
May 25, 2022
Quebec bill would give Alzheimer's patients access to medical aid in dying
MONTREAL - Quebec has tabled a bill that would extend the province's assisted death legislation to people with Alzheimer's disease. Health Minister Christian Dub said today that Bill 38 would allow pe...
May 25, 2022
Police suspect arson in fire at Wyoming abortion clinic site
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) - An overnight fire in Wyoming damaged a building under renovation to house a new abortion clinic in the conservative state with widespread opposition to abortion and authorities sai...
May 25, 2022
Norwegian curling great Thomas Ulsrud, winner of 2010 Olympic silver, dies at 50
Norwegian curler Thomas Ulsrud, a three-time Olympian who won silver at the 2010 Vancouver Games, has died after a long illness, the World Curling Federation said Wednesday. He was 50. In a Facebook p...
May 25, 2022
Federal government would join challenge of Quebec's Bill 21 at Supreme Court
MONTREAL - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says his government will join a legal challenge to Quebec's religious symbols law if it reaches the Supreme Court. Lametti told reporters in Montreal ...
May 25, 2022
Peter Nygard sexual assault case to return to Montreal courtroom in July
MONTREAL - Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard's sexual assault and forcible confinement case in Quebec will return to a Montreal courtroom July 8. Nygard remains detained in Toronto and did not appea...
May 25, 2022
Federal government says court challenge to Quebec language law possible
MONTREAL - Federal Justice Minister David Lametti says his government is not ruling out a court challenge to Quebec's newly adopted language-reform law. But Lametti says he first wants to see how it's...
May 25, 2022
Victims' families boycott N.S. mass shooting inquiry over questioning of Mounties
TRURO, N.S. - Family members of victims of the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting have told their lawyers to boycott a public inquiry after a decision preventing cross-examination of key Mountie witnesses...
May 25, 2022
Williams Lake timber supply area to be audited by B.C. watchdog
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Timber-sale licence holders near Williams Lake in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Natural Resource District will be audited next week.In a news release, the B.C. government says the Forest...
May 25, 2022
Stankoven scores fourth hat trick of playoffs, Blazers take 2-1 series lead over Thunderbirds
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops Blazers scored early - 27 seconds in - and often in game three of the Western Hockey League (WHL) Western Conference Finals against the Seattle Thunderbirds Tuesday (May 24).Lo...
May 25, 2022
