The Canadian PressKUNGSBACKA, Sweden — Montreal Canadiens prospect Lane Hutson scored the overtime winner as the United States defeated Canada 6-5 in a world junior hockey championship tune-up game Saturday. Hutson skated up the ice during the 3-on-3 extra period and lost the puck to Canada forward Owen Beck before stealing it right back and scoring to ice the game at 3:21. Ryan Leonard scored twice, while Quinn Finley, Sam Rinzel and Oliver Moore also scored for the United States. Hutson had an assist to go with

's energy regulator has shot down a proposed natural gas pipeline project in the Okanagan. Utilities Commission (BCUC) has rejected an application from FortisBC to build a natural gas pipeline worth $327 million in the Okanagan region. 's main natural gas utility, and argued they wouldn't be able to keep up with demand without the pipeline expansion. The intervener argued that those plans would likely lessen natural gas demand in those areas in the years to come. It has directed Fortis to examine other short-term solutions for anticipated natural gas demand and file a mitigation plan by the end of July 2024.

The Orange Art Gallery took residence at the former CN Rail bank building west of downtown Ottawa a decade ago. (Giacomo Panico/CBC - image credit)The Orange Art Gallery, a hub for local artists that's operated for the past decade at a 125-year-old former bank west of downtown Ottawa, will soon close its doors. Hollander fears that could be the reality once Orange Art Gallery moves out. Ingrid Hollander, co-owner of the Orange Art Gallery says the gallery will remain open to the public until their lease is up. Hollander says the Orange Art Gallery will remain open to the public until their lease is up on Dec. 31.

Un an après la tenue de la conférence sur la biodiversité, des biologistes et des environnementalistes font preuve d'optimisme. COP15 : sommet sur la biodiversité à Montréal Consulter le dossier complet COP15 : sommet sur la biodiversité à Montréal Consulter le dossier complet Suivre SuivreLe gouvernement fédéral s'est engagé à déposer un projet de loi destiné à fixer les objectifs de biodiversité au Canada et à les rendre contraignants. C'est certainement une première au Canada et probablement dans le monde aussi , estime l'avocat Josh Ginsberg, de l’organisation environnementale Ecojustice. Toutefois, le temps presse, rappelle la directrice principale de la section québécoise de la Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada (SNAP), Alice de Swarte. C'est le cas notamment de la rainette faux-grillon et du caribou forestier, dont la stratégie de protection doit être annoncée par Québec à la mi-janvier, après plusieurs reports.

|Screenshot1 / 1 Jimmy Lai during a CBC interview, when asked about his twin sister in NOTL worrying about him. |Screenshot AdvertisementThe Niagara-on-the-Lake family of Jimmy Lai will be closely following the trial of the pro-democracy activist in Hong Kong, along with the rest of the world. “It’s a crazy trial, not a real trial the way we expect in Canada. On Friday, judges ruled against that defence, and the trial is expected to resume next week. Lai, the founder of Apple Daily, a Hong Kong media outlet openly critical of the Chinese Communist Party, has in the past taken to the streets in protest.

Psychologist Laura Casey Foss says making sure to make time to give back to yourself is just as important as giving to others this holiday season. (Hillary Johnson/CBC - image credit)Psychologist Laura Casey Foss says making sure to make time to give back to yourself is just as important as giving to others this holiday season. Psychologist Laura Casey Foss says making sure to make time to give back to yourself is just as important as giving to others this holiday season. (Hillary Johnson/CBC)A Corner Brook psychologist says making sure to make time to give back to yourself is just as important as giving to others this holiday season. All of those things are really important, especially when emotions are running really high."

Increased focus on the Arctic and North Atlantic will be amongst Copenhagen’s priorities when it takes over chairmanship of the Nordic Defence Cooperation (NORDEFCO) from Sweden on January 1, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “The Baltic Sea region, Arctic and the North Atlantic will be geographical areas of particular importance in 2024,” a ministry spokesperson told Eye on the Arctic in emailed comment on Friday. “Our ambition is to maintain the region as a region of low tension as we face new and special challenges in the North Atlantic and the Arctic region,” the ministry spokesperson said. “This is important for strategic lines of communication and supply, as well as for capabilities and operational cooperation. With Finland’s accession to NATO and Sweden’s future membership, Copenhagen says NORDEFCO’s work has more importance than ever.

Feature Interview with Heather Exner-PirotEye on the Arctic: What Arctic headlines stood out for you this year? Heather Exner-Pirot: For me, the big thing is the Arctic Council handover. Then there was the question of how they would resume the work of the Arctic Council. We’re also seeing very little prospects for mining development in the Canadian Arctic. We’ve made it so expensive, so difficult and so time consuming to do mining in Northern Canada, that investors aren’t interested.

Concordia University will offer bursaries of up to $4,000 per year to out-of-province Canadian undergraduate students, joining McGill in creating an offset to the tuition hikes announced this fall by the Quebec government. Earlier in the fall, Quebec announced that tuition fees for out-of-province Canadian students would jump to around $17,000. WATCH | What people are saying about Quebec's tuition hike:Début du widget Widget. Fin du widget Widget. The bursaries Concordia announced on Friday are for undergraduate applicants from high schools from provinces outside Quebec.

But, that acknowledged, I believe that my parents’ generation had a pretty good idea of how to have a good time. Much about the season remains the same as it was when my brother and sister and I were growing up. This all followed weeks of our tearing through the toy section of that year’s Sears Wish Book, circling what we wanted Santa to bring and squabbling over who got what. I watched the procedure then ran off to get into some kind of my own trouble. We just don’t know how to party like that anymore, but I really wish we did.

VANCOUVER, BC / ACCESSWIRE / December 21, 2023 / Global Education Communities Corp ("GECC" or the "Company") (TSX:GEC)(OTCQX:GECSF) is pleased to report that its subsidiary, GEC Langara Limited Partnership (the "LP") has completed the purchase of two parcels of land (together, the "Property") at 6428 Cambie Street, Vancouver. GECC also owns Global Education Alliance Inc. ("GEA") and Irix Design Group Inc. ("IRIX"). Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts. The forward-looking statements are subject to various risks, uncertainties and other factors (collectively, the "Risks") that could cause the Company's actual results or achievements to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by forward-looking statements. SOURCE: Global Education Communities Corp.View the original press release on accesswire.com

Rosanna Hempel has joined CBC as a reporter and editor. She wrote on X/Twitter:“Very glad to continue sharing stories from this province. For story ideas and tips > rosanna.hempel@cbc.ca.”Recently Hempel was at Global News, where she held the posts of producer and video journalist. She interned at CBC and CTV News. You can congratulate Hempel via X/Twitter.

(Josh Hoffman/CBC - image credit)A weather system that has brought days of heavy rainfall and freezing rain to parts of Nova Scotia is now packing high winds and snow. The storm knocked out power to thousands of homes and businesses on Thursday. A map of the Maritimes shows wind guts and precipitation forecasts. (Ryan Snoddon/CBC)At one point, nearly 24,000 Nova Scotia Power customers were without electricity Thursday afternoon. Earlier this week, more than 70,000 Nova Scotia Power customers lost their power during a wind and rain storm.

Liberals MPs spent Wednesday evening doing damage control in the wake of news reports about a politically embarrassing video of a Palestinian terror leader thanking Canada for supporting a ceasefire in Gaza. “Our statement was clear: for a ceasefire to be sustainable, Hamas must release all hostages, stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and lay down its arms,” the statement read. “We want to see this pause resumed and support urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire,” read the joint statement. “You’re backpedaling after a barbaric terrorist group thanked you for your support because a Hamas endorsement is a political problem for you,” Lantsmen wrote. Aligning Canada with Hamas & not the Palestinian people was a choice.”Lantsman called out Saks for waiting until after this week’s humiliating thumbs-up from Hamas.

By Chris Sankey, December 20, 2023Over the last eight years we have experienced an unprecedented push from environmental activists to phase out fossil fuels. State-of-the-art lifesaving medical equipment comes from fossil fuels and critical minerals from mining. Yes, fossil fuels. From the moment we come out of our mother’s body, fossil fuels make our lives better. If it is not made from fossil fuels, they were most definitely transported to the store using fossil fuels.