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A profile of Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Heather Stefanson
WINNIPEG - Heather Stefanson's bid to lead the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives and take the premier's chair follows a lifetime in and around politics that started as a young girl. She is the establ...
Oct 23, 2021
A profile of Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Shelly Glover
WINNIPEG - Shelly Glover thought she had left politics behind when she walked away from Parliament Hill in 2015. Six years later, she is vying for the leadership of Manitoba's governing Progressive Co...
Oct 23, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Cats should be licensed, fixed and allowed to run free
IN CASE YOU DIDN'T KNOW, Kamloops has a cat problem. It was ever thus.The SPCA says the town has a cat overpopulation "crisis." It says 78 per cent of the BC SPCA's total feline intake in the Thompson...
Oct 23, 2021
Salvini on trial in Italy over 2019 migrant ship
PALERMO, Italy (AP) - Italy's right-wing former interior minister, Matteo Salvini, went on trial Saturday charged with kidnapping for refusing in 2019 to allow a Spanish migrant rescue ship to dock in...
Oct 23, 2021
Roadside bombing targets Taliban, kills Afghan civilians
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A roadside bombing targeting a Taliban vehicle in eastern Afghanistan killed at least two civilians Saturday, including a child, Taliban and health officials said. Four other...
Oct 23, 2021
O'Toole's Tories outliers in Canadian politics for keeping vaccination status secret
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives' refusal to disclose how many of their elected members are fully vaccinated makes them something of an outlier in the Canadian political sphere. Most federal and pro...
Oct 23, 2021
Canadian ski resorts face labour shortage, government slow to issue working visas
VANCOUVER - Canadian ski resorts that rely heavily on international workers are steadying themselves for a labour shortage this winter as the visa approval process by the federal government slows. Wit...
Oct 23, 2021
Oilers beat Vegas 4-3, extend season-opening win streak to 5
LAS VEGAS (AP) - Zack Kassian scored a tiebreaking goal in the third period and the Edmonton Oilers beat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-3 on Friday night. Edmonton stretched its season-opening win streak ...
Oct 22, 2021
Red Sox run out of fight, fall to Astros in ALCS Game 6
HOUSTON (AP) - Backs against the wall - occasionally by their own doing - these Boston Red Sox proved hard to pin down. The Houston Astros finally got them for good Friday night. Boston's bats went qu...
Oct 22, 2021
García, Alvarez help Astros oust Red Sox, reach World Series
HOUSTON (AP) - Rookie Luis Garca showed the poise of an October ace, Yordan Alvarez stayed hot at the plate and the Houston Astros earned yet another trip to the World Series, beating the Boston Red S...
Oct 22, 2021
