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Benson driving at 'high rate' of speed before fatal crash
AUSTIN, Texas - Police said Monday they are still investigating the weekend motorcycle crash that killed former Texas Longhorns running back and NFL player Cedric Benson and a woman passenger. Accordi...
Aug 21, 2019
Trans Mountain to resume construction on pipeline expansion
BURNABY, B.C. - Trans Mountain says it is restarting construction on its pipeline expansion project.The company said work will resume at the Westridge Marine Terminal and Kinder Morgan's Burnaby Termi...
Aug 21, 2019 Image Credit: Trans Mountain
NYPD fires officer 5 years after Garner's chokehold death
NEW YORK - After five years of investigations and protests, the New York City Police Department on Monday fired an officer involved in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, the black man whose dyin...
Aug 21, 2019
Hotter, larger fires turning boreal forest into carbon source: research
Research suggests that bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a source of climate-changing greenhouse gases. Soil in the forest, which crosses six provinces and two...
Aug 21, 2019
'What our ancestors meant:' Canada, First Nations create new park reserve
LUTSEL K'E, N.W.T. - A deal on a vast new national park reserve in the North is being called a model for future relationships between First Nations and Canada. "This is what our ancestors meant w...
Aug 21, 2019
Greenland fallout: Trump's cancelled trip blindsides Denmark
COPENHAGEN - The prime minister of Denmark said Wednesday she is "disappointed and surprised" by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to cancel his visit to Denmark after she called Trump's idea of ...
Aug 21, 2019
Large police presence in Westsyde Tuesday triggered by weapons call; suspicious vehicle not located
KAMLOOPS - Despite an extensive patrol of the area, police were unable to locate a suspicious vehicle where an occupant may have had a gun.In a news release, Kamloops RCMP say at roughly 6:45 p.m. Tue...
Aug 21, 2019 Image Credit: Twitter / Jamie Rye
Politicians say elections law restricting partisan ads is 'absurd,' 'lunacy'
OTTAWA - The man whose position on climate change is at the centre of a controversy over partisan campaign rhetoric weighed in Monday, saying Elections Canada is stifling free speech if environmental ...
Aug 21, 2019
US prisons chief removed from position after Epstein's death
WASHINGTON - Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life...
Aug 21, 2019
Large outage affecting 3,400 Hydro customers in Sun Peaks, North Thompson
SUN PEAKS, B.C. - UPDATE: Power has been restored to the North Thompson.The cause for both outages was birds contacting the wires, according to BC Hydro.There is not yet an estimated time on for Sun P...
Aug 21, 2019 Image Credit: BC Hydro
