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BCHL tries out video review and coach's challenges
The BCHL's exhibition season starts this weekend, and, in total, 47 games will be played over a two-week period, all of which will be streamed live on BCHL TV.The Vernon Vipers and Salmon Arm Silverba...
Sep 17, 2021
Colorado school shooter sentenced to life in prison
DENVER (AP) - A former high school student convicted of killing one student and injuring eight others in a 2019 attack on a Denver-area school has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. Devo...
Sep 17, 2021
Official says US will deport 'massive' number of Haitians
DEL RIO, Texas (AP) - A US official says the Biden administration is planning "massive movements" of Haitian migrants in a small Texas border town on flights to Haiti starting Sunday. Plans have yet t...
Sep 17, 2021
Fortin's lawsuit over removal from vaccine post now pointless, federal lawyers argue
OTTAWA - Federal lawyers argue Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin's lawsuit over his removal as head of Canada's vaccine distribution campaign is now moot because the job no longer exists. In a newly filed Federal...
Sep 17, 2021
GreenPAC endorses two Okanagan candidates in 2021 election
GreenPAC, a non-partisan non-profit organization with goals of building environmental leadership and government action in Canada, is endorsing two candidates in Okanagan ridings. GreenPAC has official...
Sep 17, 2021
Ex-Algerian president Bouteflika, ousted amid protests, dies
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) - Former Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who fought for independence from France in the 1950s and 1960s and was ousted amid pro-democracy protests in 2019 after 20 years...
Sep 17, 2021
B.C. willing to help Alberta in COVID-19 battle, but needs hospital space: Horgan
VANCOUVER - Premier John Horgan says the province is willing to help Alberta when it comes to battling COVID-19, but the priority is on ensuring hospitals in British Columbia don't become overwhelmed....
Sep 17, 2021
Tenacious Belgium immigrant pioneered Canada's mussel industry in the 1970s
CHARLOTTETOWN - When Joe Van Den Bremt first floated the idea of producing cultured mussels on P.E.I. in the 1970s, the local fishermen laughed at him. "They were all telling me, 'We use that stuff fo...
Sep 17, 2021
Montreal Alouettes face B.C. Lions minus head coach Khari Jones in COVID-19 isolation
MONTREAL - With head coach Khari Jones in COVID-19 isolation, the Montreal Alouettes' play-calling Saturday will be by committee led by Andre Bolduc. The Alouettes (2-2) are at home to the B.C. Lions ...
Sep 17, 2021
Veteran TFC fullback Justin Morrow looks to keep making a difference post-soccer
TORONTO - Justin Morrow cost Toronto FC some US$100,000 in allocation money when he came over in a December 2013 trade with the San Jose Earthquakes. Back then, it was a fair chunk of change - a sourc...
Sep 17, 2021
