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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U.S. makes final decision to hike Canadian softwood duties
by Ashley Joannou The U.S. Department of Commerce says it has made a final decision to more than double countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move business groups in British Col...
Aug 09, 2025 Lumber awaiting shipment is seen stacked at the Gorman Brothers Lumber sawmill, in West Kelowna, B.C., Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Husband suspected wife of poisoning him before she killed 3 relatives with toxic mushrooms
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - The husband of a woman convicted of killing three people with a meal laced with deadly mushrooms suspected his wife had been poisoning him more than a year before the fatal...
Aug 08, 2025 Erin Patterson leaves a court in Melbourne, Australia, on April 15, 2025. (James Ross/AAP Image via AP, File)
Advance polls open in Alberta byelection with 214 candidates, historic blank ballots
CAMROSE - Advance polls in a historic federal byelection for Alberta's Battle River-Crowfoot open today. For the first time ever, Elections Canada says voters must fill out a blank ballot. Read more: ...
Aug 08, 2025
Ottawa upholds CRTC's wholesale internet rules, says they will foster competition
Ottawa says it will uphold a ruling by Canada's telecommunications regulator allowing the country's largest internet companies to provide service to customers using fibre networks built by their rival...
Aug 07, 2025 Ottawa says it will uphold a ruling by Canada's telecommunications regulator allowing the country’s largest internet companies to provide service to customers using fibre networks built by their rivals outside their core regions. Minister of Industry Melanie Joly takes part in a press conference in Ottawa, on Friday, July 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios, Dubai chocolate likely to expand, PHAC says
TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it expects to report more salmonella cases linked to certain brands of pistachios and pistachio-containing products in the coming months, adding to th...
Aug 06, 2025 Dubai chocolate is a dessert prepared with milk and dark chocolate, roasted shredded wheat, pistachio paste and tahini. (EsinDeniz / Depositphotos.com)
Dramatic photos of B.C. fires on social media are fake, officials warn
by Nono Shen VANCOUVER - The B.C. Wildfire Service is warning about AI-generated images spreading misinformation and uncertainty during fire season, citing fake images being shared on social media tha...
Aug 05, 2025 The Drought Hill wildfire burns just north of Peachland, B.C. in this Wednesday, July 30, 2025 handout photo from B.C. Wildfire Service. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/B.C. Wildfire Service)
Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack, report says, citing death certificate
LONDON (AP) - Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack and had coronary artery disease in addition to suffering from Parkinson's disease for years, his death certificate said. The singer had suffered from...
Aug 05, 2025 Flowers and messages are left by fans to commemorate the death of Ozzy Osbourne at the Black Sabbath Bridge in Birmingham, Wednesday, July 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Three facing smuggling-related charges after 44 migrants intercepted in Quebec: CBSA
MONTREAL - The Canada Border Services Agency says it has arrested and charged three alleged smugglers after police in southern Quebec intercepted a truck carrying 44 foreign nationals in conditions an...
Aug 05, 2025 A RCMP officer checks the border between Quebec and New York state on Roxham Road in St. Bernard-de-Lacolle, Que. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Overtime ban to continue as Canada Post workers vote to reject latest contract offer
Unionized workers at Canada Post have voted to reject the Crown corporation's latest contract offer. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said Friday that 68.5 per cent of urban mail carriers who vote...
Aug 02, 2025 A Canada Post employee returns to a delivery depot in Vancouver, B.C., Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Canada records first case of West Nile virus in 2025
TORONTO - Confirmation of the first human case of West Nile virus acquired in Canada this year arrived just in time for the August long weekend. The Public Health Agency of Canada said Thursday that a...
Aug 02, 2025 In this Aug. 26, 2019, file photo, Salt Lake City Mosquito Abatement District biologist Nadja Reissen examines a mosquito in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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