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Police violated protesters’ rights in Wet’suwet’en pipeline blockades, Amnesty says
VANCOUVER – A report by Amnesty International says police in British Columbia conducted arbitrary arrests and “aggressive surveillance, harassment and intimidation” of First Nations protesters blocking a pipeline project. The 94-page report documenting protests linked to a 78-kilometre segment of the Coastal GasLink liquefied natural gas pipeline says the RCMP violated protesters’ rights to free ... Read More »
B.C. Lions say coaching staff returning for 2024, Phillips gets assistant coach role
SURREY, B.C. – B.C. Lions head coach Rick Campbell says his entire coaching staff from the 2023 season will return next year. Campbell, who is also the team’s co-general manager, also announced that defensive co-ordinator Ryan Phillips will take on assistant head coaching duties. Phillips, the current coaching staff’s longest-serving member, is returning for a ... Read More »
Missed opportunity or dodged bullet? What Ohtani’s L.A. pick means for Rogers
TORONTO – While baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s decision not to sign with the Toronto Blue Jays over the weekend has left fans wondering what might have been, one sports economist says team owner Rogers Communications Inc. is better off for having struck out. Ohtani said Saturday he’d be signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers, with ... Read More »
Young Thug trial delayed at least a day after co-defendant is stabbed in jail
ATLANTA (AP) – One of the five co-defendants on trial with rapper Young Thug has been stabbed at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, delaying the proceedings for at least a day, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Natalie Ammons confirmed that Shannon Stillwell had been stabbed and said her office would provide further ... Read More »
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Rimouski Océanic to host 2025 Memorial Cup
RIMOUSKI, Que. – The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League’s Rimouski Océanic will host the 2025 Memorial Cup, the Canadian Hockey League announced Monday. It will mark the return of the CHL championship series – featuring the host city and the champions of the QMJHL, Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League – to Quebec for ... Read More »
The Golden Globe nominees are out. Let the awards season of Barbenheimer begin – Analysis
NEW YORK (AP) – Early honors in Hollywood’s unfurling awards season have gone to films like Celine Song’s tender relationship drama “Past Lives,” Jonathan Glazer’s piercing Holocaust film “The Zone of Interest” and Martin Scorsese’s sprawling Osage murders epic “Killers of the Flower Moon.” But a showdown was always brewing. “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” those summer ... Read More »
Prince Harry ordered to pay Daily Mail publisher legal fees for failed court challenge
LONDON (AP) – A judge ordered Prince Harry on Monday to pay nearly 50,000 pounds (more than $60,000) in legal fees to the publisher of the Daily Mail tabloid for his failed court challenge in a libel lawsuit. The Duke of Sussex is suing Associated Newspapers Ltd. over an article that said Harry tried to ... Read More »
Grocer profits set to exceed record in 2023, expert says, ahead of committee meeting
VANCOUVER – The Centre for Future Work says profits in the Canadian grocery sector will likely exceed $6 billion in 2023, setting a new record as they rise eight per cent from last year. New research by the centre found that food retailers are now earning more than twice as much profit as they did ... Read More »
Minnesota judge sets aside murder conviction of man imprisoned as teen for 2004 flower shop killing
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – A Minnesota judge on Monday set aside the murder conviction of a man who was sent to prison for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop, the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office said. Marvin Haynes, who was 16 at the time of the killing, was expected to be released ... Read More »
Three dead after shed fire outside home improvement store in Calgary
CALGARY – Fire officials say three people are dead after a fire in a shed outside a home improvement store in Calgary. Crews responded to the fire just before 4 a.m. at a Lowe’s in the city’s northwest. The bodies were found inside the shed after the flames were extinguished. Officials say the cause of ... Read More »
Waste Connections buying $1.08B in assets from Secure Energy Services
TORONTO – Waste Connections Inc. has signed a deal to buy a portfolio of 30 energy waste treatment and disposal facilities in Western Canada from Secure Energy Services Inc. for nearly $1.08 billion. The assets represent all of the required divestitures mandated by the Competition Tribunal following Secure’s 2021 merger with Tervita Corp. The deal ... Read More »
