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Habs beat Leafs in OT to force Game 7
[ad_1] MONTREAL — Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored at 15:15 of overtime as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Saturday to force a seventh and deciding game in their first-round playoff series. Corey Perry and Tyler Toffoli had the goals in regulation for Montreal. Carey Price made 41 saves inside an electric…
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COVID-19: Squamish truckers turn out to honour couple who died hours apart
[ad_1] Gleaming, honking and rumbling, they rolled through Squamish on Saturday — nearly 80 trucks forming a procession for a well-known local couple who died with COVID-19 earlier this month. Gail and Merrill Ross died just 17 hours apart. “If it wasn’t for COVID, they definitely still would be with us, and we would…
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Call Of The Wilde: Montreal Canadiens survive in OT again to beat Toronto – Montreal
[ad_1] The best game of the series as the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs played a classic in game six. A second straight overtime contest as the Habs gave up a 2-0 lead late to allow Toronto to tie it at 2. In the extra frame, one of the young guns of the…
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B.J. Thomas, singer of ‘Hooked on a Feeling,’ dead at 78 – National
[ad_1] B.J. Thomas, the Grammy-winning singer who enjoyed success on the pop, country and gospel charts with such hits as “I Just Can’t Help Believing,” “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ On My Head” and “Hooked on a Feeling,” has died. He was 78. Thomas, who announced in March that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer,…
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Habs beat Leafs in OT to force Game 7
[ad_1] MONTREAL – Jesperi Kotkaniemi scored at 15:15 of overtime as the Montreal Canadiens defeated the Toronto Maple Leafs 3-2 on Saturday to force a seventh and deciding game in their first-round playoff series. Corey Perry and Tyler Toffoli had the goals in regulation for Montreal. Carey Price made 41 saves inside an electric…
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Columbia Icefield tour bus company relaunches with seatbelts nearly a year after fatal Alberta crash
[ad_1] Pursuit, the company behind the fatal bus rollover in Alberta’s Rocky Mountains last year, has resumed operations and installed seatbelts in its vehicles. Read more: RCMP say it will be spring before investigation wraps into fatal Jasper bus crash Three people were killed and 14 were injured when a big-wheeled ice explorer rolled…
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Utah Jazz great Mark Eaton dead at 64 – National
[ad_1] Mark Eaton, the 7-foot-4 shot-blocking king who twice was the NBA’s defensive player of the year during a career spent entirely with the Utah Jazz, has died. He was 64. The team announced his death Saturday. Eaton left his home for a bike ride Friday night in Summit County, Utah, and shortly thereafter…
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‘It’s extremely stressful’: Manitobans wait in limbo for more AstraZeneca doses – Winnipeg
[ad_1] Just over a year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit Manitoba, Cari Goncalves was diagnosed with cancer. In July 2019, she received a stem cell transplant as part of her treatment for multiple myeloma. It was a procedure that put her on the former Priority 1 list for the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine in March…
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London principal removed from position after backlash over wearing student’s dreadlocks – London
[ad_1] A principal at a French school in London, Ont., has been removed from his position after a picture of him wearing a student’s dreadlocks that were cut off as part of a cancer fundraiser was posted online. The picture and video date back to 2019 and were shared by Black Lives Matter (BLM)…
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How do you spot and debunk misinformation? Experts chime in – National
[ad_1] Sifting through what’s real and what’s fake online is becoming a heroic feat. For years, many of us were used to unreliable sources looking unreliable. “We have a perception of what legitimate looks like,” said Kathryn Hill, executive director of Media Smarts, a media and digital literacy organization. “We think it looks professional and it…