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AG blames B.C. Conservatives after SOGI protest tractor crash, IIO investigates

AG blames B.C. Conservatives after SOGI protest tractor crash, IIO investigates

SURREY, B.C. — The police watchdog is investigating a B.C.
NHL all-star events to include return of player draft, 3-on-3 women's game

NHL all-star events to include return of player draft, 3-on-3 women's game

TORONTO — The NHL is going back to a player draft and adding a 3-on-3 women's game as part of an expanded NHL all-star weekend.
Domestic abuse shelters in Alberta report 10-year high in number of calls for help

Domestic abuse shelters in Alberta report 10-year high in number of calls for help

EDMONTON — The Alberta Council of Women's Shelters says domestic violence is on the rise in the province and shelters are struggling to keep up.
Hiker rescued after nine hours stranded on B.C.'s Mount Seymour

Hiker rescued after nine hours stranded on B.C.'s Mount Seymour

VANCOUVER — Search and rescue crews in British Columbia found a hiker who was stranded for nine hours after sliding down the side of Mount Seymour in North Vancouver.
Poor Inuit housing 'direct result of colonialism': federal housing advocate

Poor Inuit housing 'direct result of colonialism': federal housing advocate

OTTAWA — A federal housing advocate is accusing every level of government in Canada of failing to uphold the Inuit's right to housing — and therefore denying their human rights.
Sisters among four dead after Winnipeg shooting; man in critical condition

Sisters among four dead after Winnipeg shooting; man in critical condition

WINNIPEG — Two First Nations sisters are among four people who died in a shooting over the weekend in downtown Winnipeg. Officers were called shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday to a home where they found five people wounded.
Manitoba to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday

Manitoba to make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government introduced a bill in the legislature Monday to make Sept. 30 — the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation — a statutory holiday.
Smith invokes sovereignty act on green electricity, concedes it's for symbolic effect

Smith invokes sovereignty act on green electricity, concedes it's for symbolic effect

EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith invoked Alberta’s sovereignty act on Monday to implement new measures in her fight against Ottawa’s looming clean electricity rules while conceding she didn't need the act to put the changes in place.
Montreal billionaire sex case: Accuser loses bid to freeze Robert Miller's assets

Montreal billionaire sex case: Accuser loses bid to freeze Robert Miller's assets

MONTREAL — A Quebec judge has denied a request to freeze the assets of a Montreal billionaire accused of paying underage girls for sex.
Central kitchen linked to E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares reopens to serve meals

Central kitchen linked to E. coli outbreak at Calgary daycares reopens to serve meals

CALGARY — Alberta Health says a central kitchen related to an E. coli outbreak at multiple daycares in Calgary has been cleared to reopen in a limited way as a review panel looking at food safety continues its work. The E.