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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
Exclusion of mental illness in assisted dying-bill slammed by psychiatrists
OTTAWA - The federal bill revising the rules on medically assisted death in Canada has raised the ire of the Canadian Psychiatric Association over the proposed law's explicit rejection of mental illne...
Nov 22, 2020
Azerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists
BAKU, Azerbaijan - As Azerbaijan regains control of land it lost to Armenian forces a quarter-century ago, civilians who fled the fighting decades ago wonder if they can go back home now - and if ther...
Nov 22, 2020
UK leader to end England's coronavirus lockdown on Dec. 2
LONDON - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to end an England-wide lockdown as scheduled on Dec. 2 and will announce a return to regional restrictions as statistics show that coronavirus infec...
Nov 22, 2020
Burkina Faso votes amid ongoing extremist violence, threats
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Sunday, as the country went to the polls for presidential and legislative elections marred ...
Nov 22, 2020
Canada's first Indigenous-led coast guard auxiliary patrols B.C.'s rugged coast
VICTORIA - The winds were gusting at 110 kilometres per hour and huge waves were ripping boats from their moorings in Bella Bella, B.C., as a report came in of an overturned vessel with at least one p...
Nov 22, 2020
Trump team requests recount of Georgia's presidential race
President Donald Trump's campaign requested a recount of votes in the Georgia presidential race on Saturday, a day after state officials certified results showing Democrat Joe Biden won the state, as ...
Nov 21, 2020
More provinces sign up for rent benefit as Liberals set up promised housing council
OTTAWA - Seven provinces have signed on to a federal rent assistance program created as part of the national housing strategy, newly released documents show. So far, the Liberals have only announced d...
Nov 21, 2020
COVID-19 cases keep surging in Canada as four provinces report new one-day highs
OTTAWA - Four provinces reported new highs for daily COVID-19 infections on Saturday as the virus continued its siege on some of the country's most vulnerable areas. Health officials in New Brunswick,...
Nov 21, 2020
Angst around French language boils over in Quebec, as politicians warn of 'decline'
MONTREAL - Perennial anxieties around the state of the French language in Quebec have boiled over in the past week, with politicians seizing on a Liberal legislator's initial brush-off of the issue as...
Nov 21, 2020
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...