Sarah Mills: Early wildfire season raises questions about prevention
Wildfires have forced thousands of people in Saskatchewan to leave their homes, and the summer hasn't even started yet. ...
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Longtime Conservative MP Peter Kent won't run again in key riding for the party
OTTAWA - Longtime Conservative MP Peter Kent isn't running again in the next federal election, opening up what's likely to be a hard-fought contest within the party to take over the riding of Thornhil...
Nov 23, 2020
N.L. and P.E.I. impose new travel restrictions, bursting the Atlantic bubble
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and Labrador announced Monday they are temporarily pulling out of the Atlantic bubble as Nova Scotia and New Brunswick posted double-digit numb...
Nov 23, 2020
French ex-President Sarkozy's trial for corruption suspended
PARIS - The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy for corruption and influence peddling was suspended Monday less than two hours after it started, to allow a medical report on one of the de...
Nov 23, 2020
Hong Kong’s Joshua Wong taken into custody after guilty plea
HONG KONG - Prominent Hong Kong pro-democracy activist Joshua Wong and two other activists were taken into custody Monday after they pleaded guilty to charges related to a demonstration outside police...
Nov 23, 2020
Canadian officials also obtained security code for Meng's home, court hears
VANCOUVER - The RCMP officer who took custody of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's electronics on the day of her arrest two years ago says foreign law enforcement never asked him to obtain the passcodes...
Nov 22, 2020
Rent relief opens for business as Liberals set to deliver economic update on Nov. 30
OTTAWA - The federal government's latest lifeline to cash-strapped businesses landed with a swirl of anxiety as companies face an uncertain future that may become clearer next week when the Liberals t...
Nov 22, 2020
New COVID-19 restrictions coming into effect as case numbers soar across Canada
Regions across Canada braced for a host of new public health restrictions on Sunday as the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic sent case counts soaring from coast to coast.Surging case counts that re...
Nov 22, 2020
Trudeau joins G20 in promising COVID-19 aid to poor nations, rejecting protectionism
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined leaders from the world's 20 richest nations on Sunday in a promise to work together to keep trade flowing, fight climate change and provide COVID-19 vacci...
Nov 22, 2020
Confrontation at German coronavirus protest goes viral
BERLIN - A video went viral Sunday in Germany of a confrontation at a coronavirus protest, where a young woman compared herself to a famous Nazi resistance fighter and then was accused by a security g...
Nov 22, 2020
Trump's legal team cried vote fraud, but courts found none
PHILADELPHIA - As they frantically searched for ways to salvage President Donald Trump's failed reelection bid, his campaign pursued a dizzying game of legal hopscotch across six states that centred o...
Nov 22, 2020
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