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ROTHENBURGER: How Coun. Karpuk blew it on the Fartgate file
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE about the City councillor who accused the mayor of telling a fart joke at a dinner event? Turns out the councillor blew it.We may as well laugh about Coun. Stephen Karpuk's humili...
Jun 29, 2023

Greece’s left-wing opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, stepping down after crushing election defeat
ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's left-wing opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, announced his decision Thursday to step down after a crushing election defeat. Tsipras, 48, served as Greece's prime ministe...
Jun 29, 2023

UK appeals court rules that plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful
LONDON (AP) - A British court ruled Thursday that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful. ...
Jun 29, 2023

In the news today: Potential gravesites found at Alberta residential school
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Search suggests 88 graves at Alberta residential school University of Alberta r...
Jun 29, 2023

Reconciliation sparks a reckoning for Canada Day fireworks displays
VANCOUVER - Chief Don Tom of the Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island says he's been known to "partake" in watching fireworks, as a way to bring families together. But on Canada Day, he wants peo...
Jun 29, 2023

Conservative voters less likely to be proud to be Canadian, new survey suggests
TORONTO - Canadians' pride in their nationality, like most things these days, seems to be divided down partisan lines, a new poll suggests. While a strong majority of the 1,512 respondents to the surv...
Jun 29, 2023

Search suggests 88 potential graves at residential school in northern Alberta
Sucker Creek First Nation Chief Roderick Willier remembers never feeling safe during the decade he spent at a residential school in northern Alberta. "I always had to stay on high alert when I was the...
Jun 29, 2023

Police arrest 150 as unrest spreads to multiple towns after 17-year-old driver killed by police
NANTERRE, France (AP) - Protesters angry after police fatally shot a 17-year-old boy set cars and public buildings ablaze in Paris suburbs and unrest spread to some other French cities and towns, desp...
Jun 28, 2023

Yankees' Domingo Germán perfect through 8 innings against Athletics
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - New York Yankees pitcher Domingo Germn has not allowed a baserunner through eight innings against the Oakland Athletics. Germn has nine strikeouts and has thrown 93 pitches, 67 ...
Jun 28, 2023

Man dies after being shot by police at B.C. hospital
HOPE, B.C. - British Columbia's police watchdog is investigating the death of a man who was shot by an RCMP officer in southern British Columbia Wednesday. Mounties say an "interaction" between the ma...
Jun 28, 2023

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