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Alan Letang named Canada's head coach for 2024 world junior hockey championship
CALGARY - Alan Letang has been named as Canada's head coach for the 2024 world junior hockey championship. Hockey Canada announced its coaching staff Friday in a release. Assistant coaches Gilles Bouc...
Oct 13, 2023
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's UCP to debate motion on gender pronouns in schools
EDMONTON - Members of Alberta's governing United Conservative Party are to debate a resolution surrounding gender pronouns in schools and parental consent. The party's annual general meeting set for N...
Oct 13, 2023
Republicans pick Jim Jordan as nominee for House speaker, putting job within the Trump ally's reach
WASHINGTON (AP) - Republicans chose Rep. Jim Jordan as their new nominee for House speaker on Friday during internal voting, putting the gavel within reach of the staunch ally of GOP presidential fron...
Oct 13, 2023
Lethbridge MMA event features fighters from Prince Albert and North Battleford
Rumble in the Cage 66 takes place Saturday night in Lethbridge and Prince Albert's Prince Kumar is involved in one of over a dozen scheduled amateur MMA fights.The 31-year-old will face Calgary's Curt...
Oct 13, 2023
76ers star James Harden says he has 'lost trust' in Daryl Morey, front office
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) - Philadelphia 76ers star James Harden remained steadfast that his fractured relationship with the front office can't be repaired. Harden has yet to play in the preseason. But he did...
Oct 13, 2023
Thunder GM Presti: Hamilton's Gilgeous-Alexander is a 'professor' — like Neil Peart
MONTREAL - At first glance there does not seem to be a lot in common between Canadian basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and legendary drummer Neil Peart of Rush. Oklahoma City Thunder general ma...
Oct 13, 2023
Winning a Stanley Cup primary goal of Ottawa Senators new owners
OTTAWA - About this time last year, Michael Andlauer walked off his plane and into the car of Ottawa business mogul Jeff York. They drove to a nearby hotel-lobby steakhouse where the men spoke for fou...
Oct 13, 2023
Athlete Women Empowered Classic to showcase basketball teams led by Black women
A unique collegiate basketball tournament is coming to Toronto to encourage more Black, Indigenous and racialized women to get into coaching. The Athlete Women Empowered Classic, a four-team U Sports ...
Oct 13, 2023
Israeli shelling along Lebanon border kills 1 journalist, wounds 6
ALMA Al-SHAAB, Lebanon (AP) - An Israeli shell landed in a gathering of international journalists covering clashes on the border in south Lebanon, killing a Reuters videographer and leaving six other ...
Oct 13, 2023
RCMP seize over 300 lbs of drugs in June traffic stop near Maidstone
New information released by RCMP shows that a June traffic stop near Maidstone turned out 200 pounds of meth and about 140 pounds of cocaine. The meth tested as high as 100 per cent pure while the coc...
Oct 13, 2023
