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Feds seek dental care program ideas from industry, no details on shape it will take
OTTAWA - The federal government has asked the private sector to weigh in on how companies could play a role in Canada's national dental care plan. The Liberals set aside $5.3 billion over the next fiv...
Jul 25, 2022
Flames' newest faces Huberdeau, Weegar 'excited' for season following shock of trade
CALGARY - With the initial shock having finally subsided after learning late that they had been traded from the Florida Panthers to Calgary , Jonathan Huberdeau and MacKenzie Weegar are ready to get s...
Jul 25, 2022
David Trimble, architect of N Ireland peace deal, dies at 77
LONDON (AP) - David Trimble, a former Northern Ireland first minister who won the Nobel Peace Prize for playing a key role in helping end Northern Ireland's decades of violence, has died, the Ulster U...
Jul 25, 2022
Reaction to the Pope's apology for Catholic Church's role in residential schools
MASKWACIS - Pope Francis delivered on Monday an apology for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools, saying many Christians supported the colonization of Indigenous people. He made the...
Jul 25, 2022
Maxwell’s new digs: Fla. prison known for yoga, music, abuse
NEW YORK (AP) - Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite turned convicted sex trafficker, is off to Florida to serve a 20-year federal prison sentence for helping financier Jeffrey Epstein sexuall...
Jul 25, 2022
ArriveCan app continues to frustrate users and experts after glitch fix
OTTAWA, ONT - Calls to scrap the ArriveCan app continue from experts in technology and medicine as well as travellers, even after the federal government fixed a technical glitch that instructed some u...
Jul 25, 2022
Lawyers make closing submissions in sex assault trial for former Vancouver Canuck
VANCOUVER - A defence lawyer for former Vancouver Canuck Jake Virtanen says the woman who claims he sexually assaulted her nearly five years ago wasn't a reliable or trustworthy witness. Brock Martlan...
Jul 25, 2022
Mountie says holding back gun details was 'no-brainer' in N.S. mass shooting
HALIFAX - The Mountie in charge of the investigation into the Nova Scotia mass shooting says it was a "no-brainer" for him to withhold details of the killer's guns nine days after the rampage. Chief S...
Jul 25, 2022
'Deplorable evil': Full text of the Pope's residential school apology
MASKWACIS, AB - Pope Francis delivered an apology to Indigenous residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alta., after a visit to the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School on Monday...
Jul 25, 2022
'Deplorable evil': Full text of the Pope's residential school apology
MASKWACIS, ALTA. - Pope Francis delivered an apology to Indigenous residential school survivors in Maskwacis, Alta., after a visit to the former site of the Ermineskin Indian Residential School on Mon...
Jul 25, 2022