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CP NewsAlert: Finance Minister Freeland tables 2023 fiscal update
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's fall economic statement details another $20.8 billion in new spending since the spring budget, plus a pledge to keep deficits in check as risk of election...
Nov 21, 2023
Meadow Lake pulp mill ordered to pay over $100K for wrongful firing
A Meadow Lake company will have to pay a former employee over $100,000 for wrongful dismissal. That's coming from the Court of King's Bench which agreed with Jim Ketch that Meadow Lake Mechanical Pulp...
Nov 21, 2023
B.C. unfairly clawed back COVID-19 benefit to thousands during pandemic, says report
VICTORIA - A report says thousands of people in British Columbia saw their $1,000 COVID-19 benefit unfairly clawed back by the provincial government. Ombudsperson Jay Chalke's report says so far, 12,0...
Nov 21, 2023
'Bank of mom and dad' study: B.C. high earners get housing boost if parents also own
OTTAWA - A Statistics Canada study into what it calls the "bank of mom and dad" shows home ownership among young high earners in British Columbia increases more than anywhere else in Canada if their p...
Nov 21, 2023
Madell scores 30 tries, Canada beats U.S. in wheelchair rugby at Parapan Am Games
SANTIAGO, Chile - Zak Madell of Okotoks, Alta., scored 30 of his team's 46 tries as Canada surged into the wheelchair rugby semifinals at the 2023 Parapan Am Games with a 46-41 win over the archrival ...
Nov 21, 2023
Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu says war against Hamas will not stop after cease-fire
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will continue its war against Hamas, even if a temporary cease-fire is reached with the Islamic militant group to release hostages. In co...
Nov 21, 2023
Melfort man loses appeal on decade long criminal supervision order
Gerry Michael Parfitt of Melfort was not successful in trying to have the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal stop another judge's order that he be supervised for 10 years following his release from prison.A...
Nov 21, 2023
Accused in Prince Albert murder trial opts not to testify
A man accused of committing a violent assault at the Prince Albert Correctional Centre that left the victim in a coma, has opted not to testify at his own murder trial. Bruce Napope is alleged to be o...
Nov 21, 2023
Habs say forward Harvey-Pinard out 6-8 weeks, defenceman Harris out indefinitely
MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens say forward Rafael Harvey-Pinard will be sidelined for six to eight weeks while Jordan Harris will be out indefinitely with lower-body injuries. Harvey-Pinard, in his...
Nov 21, 2023
Judge orders McGill to comply with deal on unmarked grave search at former hospital
MONTREAL - A Quebec judge has ordered McGill University to comply with a deal it reached with a group of Indigenous women that outlines the search for possible unmarked graves at a former Montreal hos...
Nov 21, 2023
