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Three dead, four missing after float plane crashes in Labrador lake
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Four occupants of a downed float plane remained missing Tuesday after the aircraft crashed into a Labrador lake, killing three others on board. Jean Tremblay, preside...
Jul 18, 2019
Montana, North Dakota push against Washington state rail law
BILLINGS, Mont. - Attorneys general for North Dakota and Montana asked the Trump administration on Wednesday to overrule a Washington state law that imposed new restrictions on oil trains from the Nor...
Jul 18, 2019
Documents shed light on seniors poverty figures used by federal Liberals
OTTAWA - Internal government documents say that many of the 57,000 seniors the Liberals say they have helped lift out of poverty only moved above the poverty line when the government changed the measu...
Jul 18, 2019
Provincial ball back in P.A. this weekend
The Prince Albert Aces are hosting the Under-16 A Girls Softball Provincials this weekend at Max Power Ball Parks, with a gold medal already in their back pockets. The Aces are entering the provincial...
Jul 18, 2019 The Prince Albert Aces will be hosting the Under-16 A Girls Softball Provincials this weekend. Submitted photo/Devon Kolosa
Supreme Court won't hear WestJet appeal in harassment case
OTTAWA - WestJet Airlines has lost a legal bid to put an end to a proposed class-action harassment lawsuit. The Supreme Court of Canada refused today to hear WestJet's arguments&nb...
Jul 18, 2019
High court won't hear NDP expenses case over mailings, offices
OTTAWA - The federal NDP may have lost its final legal bid for judicial review of decisions by the House of Commons management body that left the party on the hook for as much as $2.7 millio...
Jul 18, 2019
New Brunswick judge to deliver verdict Friday in second Oland murder trial
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Just over eight years after multi-millionaire Richard Oland was bludgeoned to death in his Saint John office, his only son, Dennis, is about to find out whether he will be judged gu...
Jul 18, 2019
Toronto Raptors sign free-agent forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson
TORONTO - Forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson signed with the Toronto Raptors on Thursday. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, as per Raptors team policy. Hollis-Jefferson averaged 8.9 points,...
Jul 18, 2019
Woman who got postcard sent in 1993 tracks down sender
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois woman who recently got a 1993 postcard in her mailbox has tracked down the man who sent it to his children more than two decades ago. Kim Draper's story about the myste...
Jul 18, 2019
Police lay charges against man accused of forging Connor McDavid's signature on jerseys
Edmonton police have laid charges against a man who is accused of forging the signature of Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid on authentic team jerseys, then selling them to score big profits. They s...
Jul 18, 2019
