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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Horgan says B.C. will focus on pandemic economic recovery, health reform in 2021
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says economic recovery and health-care changes are the British Columbia government's top priorities for 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic tested people individually and t...
Dec 31, 2020
'You have to know it's time to go': N.S. premier reflects on tragic year, retirement
HALIFAX - When Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil privately decided earlier this year he would retire after 17 years in politics, he had no idea of the challenges he was about to face. Like all Canadi...
Dec 31, 2020
Trump push on $2K checks flops as GOP-led Senate won't vote
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell all but shut the door Wednesday on President Donald Trump's push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks, declaring Congress has provided enough pandemic ...
Dec 30, 2020
Trump makes 2nd request to Supreme Court over Wisconsin loss
MADISON, Wis. - President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his election loss in Wisconsin, his second appeal in as many days to the high court over the result in the ...
Dec 30, 2020
B.C. helps fund blueberry farmers against U.S. trade commission investigation
VICTORIA - British Columbia is making a financial contribution to help blueberry farmers fight a looming trade investigation in the United States over imported berries, including from Canada. U.S. Tra...
Dec 30, 2020
Merkel to Germans: Keep up anti-virus discipline in 2021
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel is telling her country's people that they will need to keep up their discipline in fighting the coronavirus pandemic well into 2021, even as vaccinations fuel ...
Dec 30, 2020
Girl Scouts call on cookie bakers to address child labour
The Girl Scouts of the USA said Wednesday that child labour has no place in its iconic cookies and called on the two companies that bake them to act quickly to address any potential abuses linked to t...
Dec 30, 2020
Iran allocates payment for downing Ukraine plane, but Ottawa says no offer yet
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's cabinet has created a compensation fund to pay the families of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was shot down by Iranian forces outside Tehran l...
Dec 30, 2020
Conservative MP Phil McColeman says he won't seek re-election
OTTAWA - A long-time Conservative MP says he won't seek re-election when the next federal vote comes around. Phil McColeman made the announcement in a social media post. He says it has been a privileg...
Dec 30, 2020
Louisiana Congressman-elect Luke Letlow dies from COVID-19
BATON ROUGE, La. - The death of a newly elected U.S. representative from Louisiana of complications related to COVID-19 stunned the state's political circles Wednesday and became the latest brutal rem...
Dec 30, 2020
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