Sarah Mills: Trying to score World Cup tickets is a fool's game under FIFA
Sarah Mills spent five hours and 50 minutes in a queue for FIFA's general sale for World Cup tickets on Wednesday, only ...
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Inflation ticks down to 2.3% in January amid lower gas prices: StatCan
Statistics Canada says lower prices at the pump and easing shelter inflation helped rein in the pressure facing consumers in January. The agency said Tuesday that the annual rate of inflation ticked d...
Feb 17, 2026 A motorist reaches for the pump at a gas station in Toronto on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Patrick Dell
Ottawa faces calls to send essential fuel to Cuba as U.S. widens oil blockade
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing mounting calls to speak out against the United States for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country. For more than a ...
Feb 17, 2026 A driver refuels as others wait in a long line behind to fill up at a gas station in Havana, Cuba, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84
CHICAGO (AP) - The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's assa...
Feb 17, 2026 Rev. Jesse Jackson gestures to a friend in the balcony at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., Sept. 15, 2013. The church held a ceremony honoring the memory of the four young girls who were killed by a bomb placed outside the church 50 years ago by members of the Ku Klux Klan. At right is U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)
Carney strategy for Canadian defence industry pledges 125,000 jobs
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is making sweeping changes to the way it approaches supporting the domestic defence industry, as Canada looks to transition away from over-reliance on the United States...
Feb 15, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney inspects a guided missile intercept system during a vehicle tour at the Adazi Military base in Adazi, Latvia on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
U.S. federal authorities announce an end to immigration crackdown in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The Trump administration is ending the immigration crackdown in Minnesota that led to thousands of arrests, violent protests and the fatal shootings of two U.S. citizens over the pa...
Feb 12, 2026 White House border czar Tom Homan holds a news conference at the Bishop Whipple Federal building on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2026 in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Scott McFetridge)
Police identify B.C. shooting suspect, say five students and teacher dead
Police say a female teacher and five students were among the victims of a mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge on Tuesday. RCMP Deputy Commissioner Dwayne McDonald says the 18-year-old female suspect Jesse ...
Feb 11, 2026 The road is blocked off before the Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jesse Boily
James Van Der Beek, the 'Dawson's Creek' star who later mocked his own hunky persona, has died at 48
NEW YORK (AP) - James Van Der Beek, a heartthrob who starred in coming-of-age dramas at the dawn of the new millennium, shooting to fame playing the titular character in "Dawson's Creek" and in later ...
Feb 11, 2026 James Van Der Beek attends the FOX Winter Press Day in Los Angeles on Nov. 18, 2024. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)
World leaders send condolences to Tumbler Ridge in wake of deadly school shooting
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he has heard from a number of world leaders offering condolences in the wake of Tuesday's deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Police continue to inves...
Feb 11, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters ahead of a caucus meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Investigation continues after deadly shootings that killed 10 at B.C. school and home
Condolences are trickling in from around the world this morning as police continue to investigate a pair of shootings that left 10 people, including the suspect, dead in a tiny community in northeaste...
Feb 11, 2026 The Tumbler Ridge Health Centre in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. is shown on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Jesse Boily
Conservatives propose changing the rules for non-citizens convicted of crimes
The Conservatives on Tuesday introduced a motion calling on the government to bar non-citizens convicted of serious crimes from making refugee claims. The motion also calls on the government to preven...
Feb 10, 2026 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre rises during question period in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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