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Hootsuite lays off 7% of staff to position its business for long term
VANCOUVER - Social media technology company Hootsuite Inc. is laying off seven per cent of its staff in its third job cut in the last year. The Vancouver company says the latest round of layoffs amoun...
Jan 18, 2023
Canada's Washington has grown into one of the NCAA's top scorers in her fifth season
For the three weeks in December that Canadian Keishana Washington led the NCAA in scoring, the congratulatory messages poured in. To the point it became overwhelming. "It was a lot of messages from fa...
Jan 18, 2023
Injured Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky out three months
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens say forward Juraj Slafkovsky will be out three months with a lower-body injury. Montreal provided an injury update on several players Wednesday, a day after placing f...
Jan 18, 2023
Canadian freestyle skier Rachael Karker skies for joy post-Beijing
CALGARY - What Rachael Karker wants to do in her first season after winning an Olympic medal is unwind and ski. The Canadian earned halfpipe bronze in her Olympic debut last year in Beijing behind cha...
Jan 18, 2023
Federal committee will probe government contracts with McKinsey
OTTAWA - A federal committee overseeing government operations is launching a parliamentary inquiry into contracts awarded to consulting firm McKinsey & Company. The firm recently came into the spo...
Jan 18, 2023
Canada's Adam Hadwin and Brooke Henderson enter first golf tournaments of 2023
Two of the biggest names in Canadian golf will return to competitive play on Thursday. Adam Hadwin of Abbotsford, B.C., is in the field for the American Express, his first PGA Tour event in 2023. Broo...
Jan 18, 2023
Statistics Canada finds people of colour generally more educated but paid less
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reports that visible minorities are generally more likely than their white counterparts to earn a university degree but less likely to find a job that pays as well. The find...
Jan 18, 2023
Toronto Arrows return entire coaching staff for 2023 MLR season under Peter Smith
TORONTO - The Toronto Arrows are returning their coaching staff for the 2023 Major League Rugby season under head coach Peter Smith. Smith is entering his fifth season as an Arrows coach and the secon...
Jan 18, 2023
Valleyview Arena gets influx of skating equipment thanks to city grant
KAMLOOPS - Local residents who don't have access to skating equipment have had a barrier to that leisure activity removed.In a news release issued Wednesday (Jan. 18), PLAYKamloops - a group that comm...
Jan 18, 2023
Polar bear attack victims young mother and 1-year-old son
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - A 24-year-old woman and her 1-year-old son were identified Wednesday as the victim of a fatal polar bear attack in an isolated Alaska Native village. Summer Myomick of Saint M...
Jan 18, 2023
