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Canada has won the 2022 IIHF World Junior Championship.

Team Canada was perfect in the preliminary round before winning a couple playoff games and finishing Finland in the final, 3-2 in overtime.

Kent Johnson scored at 3:20 of the extra period in front of a near-capacity crowd at Rogers Place.

Fort Saskatchewan's Olen Zellweger and former Rangers' goalie Sebastian Cossa helped the Canadian team secure their 19th gold medal.

Canada agreed to "forever discharge" Catholic entities from their promise to raise $25 million for residential school survivors and also picked up their legal bill, a final release document shows. 

The Canadian Press obtained a signed copy of the 2015 agreement through federal Access-to-Information laws, marking what appears to be the first time the document has been widely publicized. 

Delegates from the Nisga’a First Nation are in Scotland this week to discuss repatriating a memorial totem pole it says was stolen nearly a century ago.

Seven members, including Nisga’a Nation Chief Earl Stephens, have travelled from British Columbia and are scheduled to meet with staff, curators and politicians at the National Museum of Scotland on Monday.

It's a busy weekend in the area. 

Some of the bigger events include the Redwater Discovery Days, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra visiting Fort Saskatchewan and South Cooking Lake Trail Days. 

A curfew check led to a drug bust in Sherwood Park.

On Aug. 6 at around 1:34 a.m., police visited a home near Township Road 515 and Range Road 232 in Sherwood Park to conduct a curfew check on Craig Coffey. 

According to police, Coffey was not home at the time and was breaching curfew conditions related to previous stolen property charges from June.

The Fort Saskatchewan RCMP wants to remind the public that the pedestrian bridge over Highway 15 is still closed. 

Access to the bridge has been restricted since a semi tractor-trailer hauling a large boom hit the structure on July 21.

Since the closure, Fort Saskatchewan city employees have had to fix the boards obstructing the bridge's entrance "numerous" times, according to police. 

A Sherwood Park baseball talent is on his way to a prestigious tournament. 

Baseball has ruled Liam Teierle's world for most of his life. The Sherwood Park teenager picked up the bat ten years ago and never turned back. Now, at the age of 14, he has been selected to compete in the 2022 Zone Championships in Strathmore and Cheadle. 

“I felt excited about playing for them, this is my first time playing for Zones, so this is going to be a fun tournament,” he said. 

The Conservative Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Agri-Food and Food Security has been busy criss-crossing the country meeting with producers.

John Barlow says he's been trying to hit every province and this week they're in Atlantic Canada speaking to producers.

He says a key topic of concern everywhere is the Liberal's Fertilizer Reduction policy.

Canadian flags hang alongside French and British on the streets of Dieppe, France, each August as the city marks the anniversary of an important and disastrous day during the Second World War. 

Eighty years ago today, more than 5,000 Canadian soldiers were sent onto the beaches in an attempt to breach the occupied town from the sea.

Among them was 20-year-old Gordon Fennell, a member of the Calgary Tanks regiment, who has returned this week to commemorate the battle in which more than 900 Canadians died.

A motorcycle rider was seriously injured in a Strathcona County collision. 

On Wednesday (Aug. 17) at 7:35 p.m., Strathcona County RCMP and Strathcona County Emergency Services responded to a collision at Highway 16 and Range Road 213. 

Police say a van made a left turn onto Highway 16 westbound from Range Road 213, and a motorcycle was traveling eastbound on Highway 16 when the collision occurred.