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Ottawa pledges $362 million to provinces, cities to temporarily house asylum seekers
OTTAWA - The federal government is pledging an additional $362 million to help provinces and cities temporarily house asylum seekers. Immigration Minister Mark Miller announced the top-up to the feder...
Jan 31, 2024
Investigators recover voice recorder, talk to lone survivor of N.W.T. plane crash
EDMONTON - Investigators probing a plane crash that killed six people in the Northwest Territories have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and talked to the lone survivor. Jon Lee, western regional ...
Jan 31, 2024
Herdman likes what he sees in TFC but says he expects more new faces to come in
Toronto FC coach John Herdman liked what he saw in a intrasquad game at training camp last Saturday. Now he finally gets to see his squad in action against real opposition when it takes on Nashville S...
Jan 31, 2024
Canadians Papineau and Creighton enjoying fast start to Korn Ferry Tour season
Canadians Etienne Papineau and Myles Creighton have already noticed that the fields on the Korn Ferry Tour are deeper than the events they're used to playing. But they're hanging in there two tourname...
Jan 31, 2024
Andresen scores first WHL goal, Hurricanes beat Oil Kings 4-2
LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge Hurricanes took down the Edmonton Oil Kings 4-2 on Tuesday, January 30, 2024.The Hurricanes came into the game fresh off a 6-1 stomping of the Regina Pats on the previo...
Jan 31, 2024
Ottawa denies it told CBC to find 3.3 per cent budget cut, as executives have claimed
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is denying that it told CBC/Radio-Canada to cut its budget by 3.3 per cent, as executives with the public broadcaster have insisted. The Treasury Board, which o...
Jan 31, 2024
Smith plans to meet with feds over childcare concerns
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta's Premier said she is planning to take action after childcare operators voiced their concerns over the new funding arrangement.On Tuesday, January 30, 2024, hundreds of people...
Jan 31, 2024
CF Montreal acquires Uruguayan striker Matias Coccaro via permanent transfer
MONTREAL - CF Montreal has acquired Uruguayan striker Matias Coccaro on a permanent transfer from first-division Argentine club CA Huracan. Montreal signed Coccaro to a three-year contract through the...
Jan 31, 2024
Dentists, hygienists still in the dark on details of federal dental-care plan
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is still working out how much dentists will be reimbursed as part of its new dental program, just months before the program is set to start ac...
Jan 31, 2024
Canadian tight end Auclair retires from professional football
QUEBEC - Antony Auclair is calling it a career. The Canadian-born tight end announced Wednesday he is retiring from pro football. Auclair, 30, will make it official Thursday at Laval University's Spor...
Jan 31, 2024