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How Lil Bands grew from a ‘ragtag’ start to become a major First Nations hockey tournament

38 teams from 12 remote communities meeting in Dryden, Ont., this year The Lil Bands hockey tournament of 20 years ago would have been unrecognizable to anyone entering the Dryden and Eagle Read more

Kinuk the polar bear had to go to the vet. It took ‘a very big team effort’ — and a forklift

Kinuk travels almost 200 km for treatment by team of Quebec veterinarians Rolling around and lying lazily in the snow of his enclosure at the Quebec City Aquarium, four-year-old Kinuk Read more

Burst pipes around Nova Scotia have plumbers scrambling to keep up

‘Pipes are breaking all over the city,’ says Halifax fire official Gavin Hankin of Halifax Plumbing and Heating wasn’t looking forward to Sunday. “[Sunday] is going to be catastrophic because Read more

Eastern Ontario town to debate whether oath to King Charles should be scrapped

Quebec passed similar bill in December removing allegiance requirement for MNAs Town council in Prescott, Ont., is set to consider a motion calling on the Ontario government to follow Quebec’s lead by Read more

Calls grow to declare Toronto homelessness a public health crisis after extreme cold

City data shows 99 per cent of warming centre spaces occupied on Friday during extreme cold warning Councillors in Toronto are set to consider keeping warming centres open 24-7 for Read more

Elon Musk cleared in trial over tweets about taking Tesla private

Jury deliberated whether tweet artificially inflated automaker’s share price A U.S. jury has cleared Elon Musk of wrongdoing for 2018 tweets in which he declared he had financing to take Read more

Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios pleads guilty to assaulting former girlfriend, has no conviction recorded

Magistrate says offence was at low end of seriousness for common assault, was not premeditated Nick Kyrgios had suffered severe depression, suicidal ideation and insomnia in the past, a psychologist Read more

Paco Rabanne, celebrated fashion designer and perfumer, dead at 88

Spanish designer spent most of his life in France and rose to prominence in the 1960s Paco Rabanne, the Spanish-born pace-setting designer known for perfumes sold worldwide and his metallic,Read more

Video game soundtracks get their own Grammy category this year

Soundtracks for Assassin’s Creed and Call of Duty titles among the nominees Long relegated to the margins, video game score soundtracks are finally getting recognized with their own category at this year’s Read more

Iranian director freed on bail after going on hunger strike

Jafar Panahi among several artists, sports stars detained for speaking against regime Acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi was released on bail Friday, two days after starting a hunger strike to Read more

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