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Two N.L. communities raise $80,000 to bring cell tower to the region

Fed up with lack of cellular service, two western Newfoundland communities have raised the necessary funds to bring a cell tower to their region. A committee of Mainland and Three Rock Cove residents tried everything from talent shows, pumping gas, organizing dances and door-knocking to raise the approximate sum of $80,000 needed to green-light the […]

Sunshine and Londoners gather on the Green for Indigenous Solidarity Day

The sun shined brightly on the Green in Wortley Village on Friday as hundreds of Londoners gathered for Indigenous Solidarity Day celebrations. The annual event has been ongoing for more than 15 years and has now found a home in the aforementioned park in the city’s Old South neighbourhood. The day began early with a […]

Kenney says bills C-48, C-69 ‘prejudicial attack on Alberta’; bring referendum on equalization closer

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said Friday he was “profoundly disappointed” that the Senate passed bills C-48 and C-69 Thursday. He called Bill C-48, the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, “a prejudicial attack on Alberta, banning from Canada’s northwest coast only one product — bitumen — produced in only one province, Alberta.” Related Alberta Election Fact Check: Could […]

Cost of 15 new Canadian warships rises to $70 billion: PBO report

Canada’s 15 new warships will cost almost $70 billion over the next quarter-century, according to Parliament’s budget watchdog, and the cost could change further depending on the final design of the ships and when they actually get built. The estimate, released in a report by the parliamentary budget office Friday, is up substantially from a […]

Montreal’s Felix Auger Aliassime upsets top seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas

Canadian teenager Felix Auger-Aliassime has recorded one of the biggest wins of his career. The No. 8 seed from Montreal upset top-seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece 7-5, 6-2 in the quarterfinals of the Queen’s Club grass-court tournament on Friday. Tsitsipas, ranked sixth in the world, marks the highest-ranked player the 21st-ranked Auger-Aliassime has beaten in his […]

Durham soccer stars going for gold at 2019 Women’s World Cup

Some of the best female soccer players on the planet are competing at the 2019 Women’s World Cup, including a couple of athletes from Durham Region. They’re heading to Paris as Team Canada advances to the knockout round. Those who played a part in their development on and off the pitch knew they were destined […]

US court tosses black man's murder conviction over racial bias

Supreme Court tosses out Curtis Flowers’s conviction in sixth trial of 1996 murders, citing racial bias. The United States Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor’s efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried […]

Commissionaires union announces strike at CFB Kingston, Royal Military College

About 75 Commissionaires will hit the picket line outside Kingston’s Royal Military College and Canadian Forces Base Kingston on Monday. According to Fred Ebel, president of PSAC Local 818, which represents the security officials who work at Kingston’s military institutions, negotiations have fallen through, and now, new talks are planned for the coming weekend. The […]

Flames aiming for ‘best player available’ at 2019 NHL Draft

The biggest names in NHL brass have gathered in Vancouver as Round 1 of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft gets underway Friday evening at Rogers Arena. Related What does it take to prep for a Calgary Flames game? Montreal to host 2020 NHL draft 2019 NHL Draft gets underway at Vancouver’s Rogers Arena The Calgary […]

How the First Latina Partner of a White-Shoe Law Firm Spends Her Sundays

Damaris Hernández, who became the first Latina partner at the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in 2016, specializes in civil litigation and corporate and government investigations. But on Sundays, she is all about “faith, family, friends and fun.” Born and raised in East New York, Brooklyn, she has tried to replicate the Sundays […]