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Four firefighters heading home die in vehicle crash on B.C. road: government
VICTORIA - Four firefighters travelling home after battling British Columbia's wildfires have died in a road crash. Premier David Eby and Forests Minister Bruce Ralston say in a joint statement the fi...
Sep 20, 2023
Family of man who died while being admitted to psychiatric hospital agrees to $8.5M settlement
HENRICO, Va. (AP) - The family of a man who died while handcuffed and pinned to the floor for about 11 minutes as he was being admitted to a Virginia psychiatric hospital has reached an $8.5 million s...
Sep 20, 2023
Two Montreal Island towns file court challenge to Quebec language law reform
MONTREAL - Two Montreal suburbs filed a court challenge today to Quebec's 2022 language reform, seeking to be exempted from several articles of the law commonly known as Bill 96. Hampstead and Town of...
Sep 20, 2023
Bruins captaincy passes from soft-spoken Bergeron to in-your-face Marchand. He says he's ready
BOSTON (AP) - The Boston Bruins named Brad Marchand captain on Wednesday, putting the "C" previously worn by the soft-spoken and universally revered Patrice Bergeron on the sweater of a notorious inst...
Sep 20, 2023
Canada 'gravely concerned' about Azerbaijan military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh
OTTAWA - The Canadian government says it's "gravely concerned" about Azerbaijan escalating its military intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the Tories are warning of ethnic cleansing. Bot...
Sep 20, 2023
Vancouver police boost security at Indian Consulate since Trudeau remarks on killing
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Department says it's beefing up security outside India's Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential...
Sep 20, 2023
Canada 'gravely concerned' about Azerbaijan military escalation in Nagorno-Karabakh
OTTAWA - The Canadian government says it's "gravely concerned" about Azerbaijan escalating its military intervention in the Nagorno-Karabakh region, and the Tories are warning of ethnic cleansing. Bot...
Sep 20, 2023
Vancouver police boost security at Indian Consulate since Trudeau remarks on killing
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Police Department says it's beefing up security outside India's Consulate after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said this week there was credible intelligence about a potential...
Sep 20, 2023
Truck driver runs from overheight crash in North Vancouver, as rig wedged by overpass
VANCOUVER - A transport truck hauling a large, square container slammed into an overpass in North Vancouver on Tuesday, snarling traffic on Highway 1 for hours, and B.C.'s latest case of overheight ma...
Sep 20, 2023
B.C. local governments to ask province for more support over drug decriminalization
VANCOUVER - Local politicians in British Columbia have passed all three resolutions asking the province to boost funding and regulation around the drug decriminalization pilot program, including expan...
Sep 20, 2023
