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It took two overtime wins but the Kamloops Blazers were able to sweep the Kelowna Rockets in the best of seven series to earn a spot in the Western Conference finals against the Portland Winterhawks.

VANCOUVER – Energy giant Kinder Morgan is seeking a court order to stop local residents from blocking survey work for a pipeline route through a conservation area in Metro Vancouver.

HARTFORD, Conn. – Mary Doyle Keefe, the model for Norman Rockwell's iconic 1943 Rosie the Riveter painting that symbolized the millions of American women who went to work on the home front during World War II, has died. She was 92.

OTTAWA – Canadians are getting more time to file their taxes due to a mistake by the Canada Revenue Agency.

OTTAWA – The federal government's controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons.

TOKYO – A Japanese zoo has apologized after receiving complaints over naming a baby monkey Charlotte for the newborn British princess.

OTTAWA – The Tories walk away from the election debate negotiations, the Liberals make a set of demands to suit their leader, and the smaller parties balk at being shut out.

CALGARY – Tim Hortons has brewed up controversy for its decision to yank ads by pipeline giant Enbridge from its in-store screens.

BURNABY, B.C. – Kinder Morgan is pledging to safeguard against any possibility of oil spills caused by its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion.

TBILISI, Georgia – A tiger that broke loose after severe flooding at the Tbilisi Zoo mauled a man to death in the Georgian capital before being shot by police Wednesday, a day after officials said all the zoo's tigers had died.

VANCOUVER – The City of Vancouver has become the first in Canada to regulate illegal marijuana dispensaries, with the mayor saying it's a common-sense approach after the federal government's failure to provide proper policies.

TORONTO – An advocacy group and a student organization say not allowing people to use voter identification cards as valid ID at the polls could disenfranchise tens of thousands of eligible voters in the upcoming federal election.

MONTREAL – Since being discovered in 1930, Pluto has been a deep mystery to the space community.

TORONTO – The Match Group, the New York-based company that owns Match.com, OkCupid and Tinder, says it has purchased Vancouver-based dating website PlentyOfFish for US$575 million in cash.