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Did past health accords work? Ottawa is trying to make that question easier to answer
OTTAWA - In medicine, before a doctor treats a patient's illness, they first try to get a sense of the person's health. They collect information on the symptoms, run tests and blood work and gather wh...
Jul 13, 2023
'Wild West': Amid foreign meddling headlines, lawyers fear unfair immigration rulings
OTTAWA - Even as the conversation around foreign interference continues to centre on efforts to disrupt Canadian elections, the federal government is routinely deporting people suspected of engaging i...
Jul 13, 2023
Alberta energy minister told to design incentives for industry to clean up oil wells
EDMONTON - Direction from Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to her new energy minister suggests the United Conservative government hasn't given up on a controversial program that would see taxpayers back...
Jul 13, 2023
Shaqiri, Haile-Selassie lead Fire to 3-0 romp over Montreal
CHICAGO (AP-CP) - Xherdan Shaqiri and Maren Haile-Selassie both had a goal and an assist in the first half to power the Chicago Fire to a 3-0 victory over CF Montreal on Wednesday night. Chicago (7-7-...
Jul 13, 2023
Cordova's first goal lifts Whitecaps to 2-1 win over Austin FC
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Whitecaps grinded out a 2-1 win over Austin FC on Wednesday night at B.C. Place, courtesy of Sergio Cordova's first goal of the season. Cordova was sent through on goal by mi...
Jul 12, 2023
Former Canadiens coach Dominique Ducharme hired by Golden Knights
LAS VEGAS - The Vegas Golden Knights hired Dominique Ducharme and Joel Ward as assistant coaches on Wednesday. Ducharme joins the Golden Knights after serving as the head coach of the Montreal Canadie...
Jul 12, 2023
Lawyers cast doubt on phone data linking Ali to alleged scene of B.C. teen's killing
VANCOUVER - Lawyers for Ibrahim Ali, who's accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl in a Burnaby, B.C., park six years ago, have been trying to cast doubt on the reliability of cellphone data suggestin...
Jul 12, 2023
'Heartless': Miller criticizes Manitoba government's decision not to search landfill
The federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations says Manitoba's government is standing in the way of a search for the remains of two slain Indigenous women believed to be in a landfill. "We are wil...
Jul 12, 2023
Rodriguez leaves door open to regulating Meta's new social media platform Threads
OTTAWA - Canada's Heritage Minister is leaving the door open to regulating new social media platform Threads under a bill forcing Google and Meta to pay publishers for content they link to or repurpos...
Jul 12, 2023
Quebec judge says three-month sentence could trivialize promotion of hate
MONTREAL - A Quebec court judge says he fears a jail sentence of just three months for a man convicted of promoting hatred against Jews would trivialize the crime. Both the prosecution and the defence...
Jul 12, 2023