After the PWHL’s “takeover tour” generated such tremendous support in Vancouver on Wednesday, the surging Ottawa Charge can’t help but peek ahead to their first such date, at Edmonton’s Rogers Place on Feb. 16, against the Toronto Sceptres. The 18,500-seat home of the Oilers is almost sold out — Ticketmaster shows the few remaining ducats […]

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Vaughn Palmer: Court of Appeal rejected provincial law aimed to prevent further challenges to the supportive housing project

Politics

La subvention fédérale peut aller de 2500$ à 5000$, selon qu’il s’agit d’un véhicule hybride ou complètement électrique.

Society

The Saskatchewan and federal governments have announced an agreement for coverage of select new drugs for rare diseases.

Economics

Vancouver, BC, Jan. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Rockridge Resources Ltd. (TSX-V: ROCK) (OTCQB: RRRLF) (Frankfurt: RR0) (“Rockridge”) (the “Company”) is pleased to announce that Rockridge has obtained final orders of the Supreme Court of British Columbia approving the previously announced proposed statutory plans of arrangement under section 288 of the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia) […]

Sport

An Edmonton landlord was criminally charged with breaking and entering an apartment unit he was renting out shortly before the city used unprecedented emergency powers to evacuate the building in December for apparent safety issues, displacing residents days before Christmas. Court records show the landlord, Van Vuong, faces two charges for incidents on Dec. 19 […]

Culture

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company. Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by […]

Technology

The Public Health Agency of Canada says federal funding for COVID-19 vaccines will stop this year and the provinces and territories will be responsible for buying them, as well as determining the timing of the vaccinations. The agency published the information online on Friday, along with the National Advisory Committee on Immunization’s COVID-19 vaccine guidance […]

Science

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider reinstating some preventative care coverage requirements under the Affordable Care Act that were struck down by a lower court. The federal government appealed to the high court after the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with employers who argued they can’t be forced to […]

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Access to Information records show researchers were paid nearly $370,000 in 2019 to discourage the media and the public from questioning authority in “a fact-checking program” launched by then-Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould. “We encouraged Canadians not just to double check and respond to misinformation and disinformation but to actively spread relevant information they knew […]

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Re: Former colleagues say Christy Clark shouldn’t be underestimated in federal Liberal leadership race Justin Trudeau began with good intentions but, like Conservatives, he believed the discredited myth of trickle-down economics, where corporate success supposedly benefits workers. This has never been true — profits enrich only CEOs and shareholders. Instead of fostering resilient, sustainable local […]

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Victime de son succès, le programme fédéral d’incitatif à l’achat de véhicules électriques sera suspendu au plus tard le 31 mars prochain.

Society

Kenneth Law's trial on 14 counts each of first-degree murder and aiding suicide starting expected to last eight weeks

Economics

Top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner will go to sport’s highest court in April for the World Anti-Doping Agency’s appeal that seeks to ban him from the sport for at least one year. The Court of Arbitration for Sport said Friday it scheduled a closed-doors hearing on April 16-17 at its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland. CAS […]

Sport

Case now adjourned to Feb. 4 so defence can receive and review Crown materials

Events

One of the men addressed the court, offering an apology for the residents of Milk River and Coutts and for the stress the blockade caused

Culture

WASHINGTON (AP) — The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app’s fate in their hands. The popular social media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down. TikTok’s parent company is based in China, and the U.S. […]

Technology

Vasu Virda was charged with using an electronic device while driving and acquitted in provincial court. However, the decision was overturned.

Transport

The Securities and Exchange Commission says that it has settled charges against former WWE CEO Vince McMahon over his failure to disclose to the sports entertainment company’s board and others that he signed two settlement agreements worth $10.5 million with two women in order for them not to reveal potential claims against himself and WWE. […]

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OTTAWA — Canada is joining its closest allies in denouncing Venezuela’s crackdown on democracy — the first G7 foreign policy statement since Canada began chairing the group this year. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was inaugurated Friday for a third six-year term, after a July election widely seen as illegitimate. Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado appeared […]

Politics

MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The family of former Leicester soccer club owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha has filed the largest fatal accident claim in English history after the Thai billionaire died in a helicopter crash in 2018, representatives said Friday. The High Court claim brought against helicopter manufacturer Leonardo S.p.A. was valued at 2.15 billion pounds ($2.6 […]

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The Securities and Exchange Commission says that it has settled charges against former WWE CEO Vince McMahon over his failure to disclose to the sports entertainment company’s board and others that he signed two settlement agreements worth $10.5 million with two women in order for them not to reveal potential claims against himself and WWE. […]

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OTTAWA — The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed Rebel News Network’s latest bid to quash $3,000 in fines levied against the right-wing media outlet by the commissioner of elections. The fines were imposed in 2021 after an investigation by the commissioner’s office into lawn signs erected by Rebel News during the 2019 federal election […]

Politics

RCMP say that on Dec. 19, officers in Truro, N.S., received reports about two men, ages 25 and 27, arriving at the local hospital to be treated for serious stab wounds.

Events

Trump, briefly addressing the court as he appeared virtually, said his criminal trial and conviction has “been a very terrible experience” and insisted he committed no crime.

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WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani was found in contempt of court Friday for the second time this week — by a second federal judge — for continuing to spread lies about two former Georgia election workers after a jury awarded the women a $148 million defamation judgment. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington, D.C., found […]

Politics

'Yeah, I'm a good girlfriend. I can cook. I'll take care of you in the bedroom. Blah, blah, blah, and we can have a great time'

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NEW YORK (AP) — In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan […]

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TORONTO — In response to the report “Municipalities under pressure: The human and financial cost of Ontario’s homelessness crisis,” released by the Association of Municipalities of Ontario, CUPE Ontario and its Ontario Municipal Workers committee (OMW) issued the following statement: With both a federal and provincial election in the offing, CUPE Ontario and OMW recognize […]

Politics

Niagara regional police say they have charged a woman with accessory after the fact to murder in the homicide of her sister.

Events

SABRES 4, SENATORS 0 No place like home? The Ottawa Senators were booed off the ice in their first appearance on home ice in 26 days because of the 2025 IIHF world junior championship. On a throwback Thursday, the Senators turned back to the bad old days with an embarrassing 4-0 loss to the Buffalo […]

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Health minister said charging patients for those services isn't consistent with universal health care

Politics

God I love this province. For nine years, the federal Liberal government under Justin Trudeau has tried every manoeuvre it could think of to choke off our biggest industry and degrade our way of life. It passed a law effectively stifling the construction of any new pipeline. And when the courts overturned that law, the […]

Events

The court’s 5-4 order clears the way for Judge Juan M. Merchan to impose a sentence Friday on Trump, who was convicted in a New York business fraud case.

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Nurse practitioners could soon bill OHIP directly under federal changes that represent a sea-change in the delivery of primary care.

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Jan. 10, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ZenaTech, Inc. (Nasdaq: ZENA) (FSE: 49Q) (“ZenaTech”), a technology company specializing in AI (Artificial Intelligence) drone solutions driven by Quantum Computing, Drones as a Service, and enterprise SaaS, announces that its subsidiary company ZenaDrone has applied for a Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) Part 137, crop sprayer […]

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TORONTO — Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says provincial and territorial health plans will cover primary care provided by nurse practitioners, pharmacists and midwives. Holland says regulated health-care professionals who aren’t doctors will be able to bill the government for medically necessary services that would otherwise be provided by a physician. The minister says the […]

Politics

There was no mistaking the urgency and panic in Barbara Cabala’s voice. “I need your help. I’m really in trouble,” she said to the first 911 operator with whom she connected on July 7, 2021. “My mom attacked me and I tried to defend myself and I don’t think she’s breathing right now.” Cabala was […]

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OTTAWA — The federal Liberals will announce a new leader on March 9, the party announced late Thursday, giving potential candidates just two weeks to decide to run and potential voters less than three weeks to join the party in order to vote. The National Board of Directors met Thursday night to decide the initial […]

Politics

There was no mistaking the urgency and panic in Barbara Cabala’s voice. “I need your help. I’m really in trouble,” she said to the first 911 operator with whom she connected on July 7, 2021. “My mom attacked me and I tried to defend myself and I don’t think she’s breathing right now.” Cabala was […]

Events

Vaughn Palmer: Conservative candidate promises court challenge, but he has to hurry as limit on appeals fast approaching

Politics

SANTA FE, N.M. — Actor Alec Baldwin has filed a civil lawsuit for malicious prosecution and civil rights violations in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of the Western movie “Rust.” The lawsuit was filed Thursday at state district court in Santa Fe, where a judge in July dismissed a charge of […]

Events

A judge has “completely” rejected Alpha Henry’s tall tale that his brother was the real killer who slaughtered their devout parents and then doused their bodies in the bathtub with gasoline. Showing no emotion, Henry listened as Superior Court Justice Joan Barrett shot down every argument advanced by his lawyer Jamie Kopman that tried to […]

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