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Sun, 4 Jul 2021 21:28:36 -0700
CPL Roundup: Defending champs Forge down Pacific 3-0 for first win of season
WINNIPEG — Forge FC scored three late goals to down Pacific FC 3-0 Sunday in Canadian Premier League action.The defending champions earned their first points of the season after back-to-back 2-0 losses versus Valour FC and FC Edmonton to open the n...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 20:03:37 -0700
Explosives bring down rest of South Florida collapsed condo
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Demolition crews set off explosives late Sunday that brought down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building, a key step to resuming the search for victims as rescuers seek access to new areas of...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:34:47 -0700
Explosives set off to bring down rest of collapsed condo
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Demolition crews set off explosives late Sunday to bring down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building, a key step to resuming the search for victims as rescuers possibly gain access to new are...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 19:30:00 -0700
Coulson helicopter brought in from California to fight Interior wildfires
A water-bombing Sikorsky S-61 helicopter owned by the Island-based Coulson Group has been brought in from California to work for at least five days battling fires in B.C.’s Interior. The helicopter, with two pilots, spent Sunday scooping up and...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 17:07:00 -0700
Crews battling two new wildfires on Vancouver Island
Firefighters are battling two new smaller-sized wildfires on Vancouver Island — one on the west coast and the other in the northern region at Atluck Lake. The Atluck Lake fire, west of Woss, measured 0.1 hectares on Sunday afternoon. It is in a â€...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:58:07 -0700
New photos released of missing Courtenay woman
Comox Valley RCMP have released more photographs of a woman missing for more than a month. Ami Guthrie, 30, was last seen in Courtenay on June 2, police said. She is about five-foot-seven and 130 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. Guthrie is beli...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 16:37:00 -0700
Small earthquake recorded in Juan de Fuca Strait
A small earthquake occurred about 25 kilometres southeast of Victoria in the Juan de Fuca Strait on Saturday evening. It had a magnitude of about two and was recorded at 6:43 p.m., John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, said ...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 13:58:23 -0700
Cameco says workers will head back to Saskatchewan mine after wildfire risk drops
SASKATOON — Cameco says its workers will return to the Cigar Lake uranium mine in northern Saskatchewan now that the risk from a wildfire in the vicinity has subsided.About 230 workers were transported off site Thursday as a precaution while 80 peo...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 13:26:00 -0700
Driver taken to hospital after car crashes into Saanich home
A vehicle crashed into a Saanich home late Sunday morning after the driver suffered what police believe was a critical medical emergency.The driver was taken to hospital. No other injuries were reported. The vehicle narrowly avoided hitting another p...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 13:21:00 -0700
Foot passenger kiosks out of service at Horseshoe Bay ferry terminal
Self-serve ticketing kiosks at B.C. Ferries’ Horseshoe Bay terminal in West Vancouver are out of service on Sunday, meaning foot passengers must buy tickets from a ticket agent. Those with a foot passenger reservation must check in at a ticket ...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 11:26:39 -0700
'Figure of hope' praised for role in COVID-19 fight after death
MONTREAL — A Quebec woman who was the first person in Canada to receive a COVID-19 vaccine has died.Gisele Lévesque, 89, died peacefully of natural causes last Monday, surrounded by family, according to the public health authority in Quebec City.T...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 10:56:03 -0700
RCMP working to identify cause of Lytton, B.C., fire as two deaths confirmed
LYTTON, B.C. — Mounties are on the scene in Lytton, B.C., working to determine what caused a fire that destroyed much of the village and left two people dead.Dawn Roberts, the director of communications for the B.C. RCMP, told a news conference Sun...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 07:00:09 -0700
'Hurts so much:' Over 1,000 Nunavut children on wait-list for dental surgery
IQALUIT, Nunavut — A Nunavut woman says her 12-year-old son lost 15 pounds while waiting to have a tooth removed this year.The boy in Rankin Inlet was recently one of more than 1,000 children on the territory's waiting list for dental surgery. "He ...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 06:42:16 -0700
Pope Francis hospitalized for planned intestinal surgery
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis was hospitalized in Rome on Sunday afternoon for scheduled surgery on his large intestine, the Vatican said. The news came just three hours after Francis had cheerfully greeted the public in St. Peter’s Square and...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0700
Base commander prepares to move on from CFB Esquimalt
As he prepares to pack up after two years as commander of CFB Esquimalt, navy Capt. Sam Sader admits it’s difficult having to leave Vancouver Island. It has been a post he loved in a region he is very fond of — he doesn’t like being reminde...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 06:00:00 -0700
Extreme heat shatters B.C. temperature records in June
Blazing heat in B.C. shattered dozens of temperature records in June and broke Canadian standards — twice — contributing to a spike in sudden deaths in the province and leading to an explosion of wildfires that killed at least two people and de...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 05:00:00 -0700
Border restrictions to begin easing, slowly, for fully vaccinated Canadian travellers
WASHINGTON — After nearly 16 months of rigid travel restrictions, Canada is finally starting to loosen the rules — but only for a specific few. Effective Monday, fully vaccinated Canadians and permanent residents — those who have had a full...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 04:00:04 -0700
Tory MP fighting gay 'blood ban' says Parliament could have worked 'better' on C-6
OTTAWA — Eric Duncan has spoken more about his sexuality in the past two years than he says he has in his entire 33.The Conservative member of Parliament has talked openly in the House of Commons about being gay while pushing the Liberal government...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 01:25:57 -0700
Cyprus: 4 found dead in 'most destructive' forest blaze
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus search crews discovered the bodies of four people outside a fire-swept mountain village on Sunday in what the a government minister called the "most destructive" blaze in the east Mediterranean island nation’s histor...

Sun, 4 Jul 2021 00:50:27 -0700
No winning ticket for Saturday's $11.6 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO — No winning ticket was sold for the $11.6 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw.However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a lottery player in Ontario.The jackpot for the next Lotto 649 draw on July 7 will be an estimate...



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