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Minister says dozens of firefighters from Alberta and B.C. to deploy in California
OTTAWA - Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan says dozens of firefighters from Alberta and British Columbia will help fight wildfires in California, and the federal government is co-ordinatin...
Jan 12, 2025
Canadian Jim (The Gentleman) Long wins his way onto pro darts tour
MILTON KEYNES - Canadian Jim (The Gentleman) Long won his Professional Darts Corporation Tour Card at PDC Qualifying School on Sunday. Long secured his tour status by defeating England's John Brown 6-...
Jan 12, 2025
Veteran defensive lineman Jefferson agrees to extension with Blue Bombers
WINNIPEG - Defensive end Willie Jefferson is remaining with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. The six-foot-seven, 248-pound Jefferson agreed to terms on a one-year contract extension Sunday with the CFL club...
Jan 12, 2025
Canadian Leylah Fernandez wins her opening match at Australian Open
MELBOURNE - It was worth the wait for Canadian Leylah Fernandez. Fernandez defeated Ukraine's Yuliia Starodubtseva 7-5, 6-4 in her first-round women's singles match Sunday at the Australian Open. The ...
Jan 12, 2025
MacKinnon won't join Liberal leadership race, cites lack of time to mount campaign
OTTAWA - Another minister rumoured to have been considering a run for the Liberal leadership has decided against it, saying there isn't enough time for him to mount the kind of campaign he wants. Labo...
Jan 12, 2025
Florence Girard was 55 pounds when she starved in home-share. Her sister wants change
The sister of a British Columbia woman with Down syndrome who starved to death in a Port Coquitlam home in 2018 says she believes more people will die if systemic changes aren't made to how people wit...
Jan 12, 2025
Contrasts start to take shape in leadership race for Manitoba's Opposition Tories
WINNIPEG - The battle for the leadership of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives is three months from being decided, and the two men vying for the role are laying out different paths to try to reign...
Jan 12, 2025
Quebec Liberals 'at a crossroads' as leadership race kicks off Monday
MONTREAL - As the federal Liberals prepare to choose Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's successor, another Liberal leadership race is getting underway in Quebec this week. The stakes are high for the Que...
Jan 12, 2025
With Conservatives promising to 'defund,' could the next election kill the CBC?
OTTAWA - In late 2023, Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge said it was time for the federal government to redefine what the CBC does and how it does it. A year later - and with a federal election expect...
Jan 12, 2025
Justin Trudeau's own walk in the snow launched a historic week in federal politics
OTTAWA - "Sunny ways, my friends. Sunny ways." With those words, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began his time in office, having brought the Liberals out of the political wilderness and into a majority...
Jan 12, 2025