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Debate over assisted dying bill extended as clock ticks down on court deadline
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole is urging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to amend a government bill on assisted dying to better protect Canadians with disabilities. But Trudeau says he thinks...
Dec 02, 2020
1,685 new COVID cases reported Wednesday, vaccine plans released
LETHBRIDGE, AB - Alberta Health Services has released Wednesday's report on COVID-19, covering statistics from the past 24 hours. However, before Dr. Deena Hinshaw released the number, Premier Jason K...
Dec 02, 2020
'I saw what I saw,' Indigenous Services minister on truck door arrest in Nunavut
IQALUIT - Federal Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller gave a short response when asked about an investigation that found an RCMP officer did not intentionally hit a young Inuk man with his truck ...
Dec 02, 2020
Maxime Crepeau wins Allstate Goods Hands Award for save against Iceland
Maxime Crepeau's diving save for Canada against Iceland has earned the 26-year-old goalkeeper the 2020 Allstate Canadian National Teams Good Hands Award. The award, decided by an online fan vote from ...
Dec 02, 2020
NASA: Mystery object is 54-year-old rocket, not asteroid
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A mysterious object temporarily orbiting Earth is a 54-year-old rocket, not an asteroid after all, astronomers confirmed Wednesday. Observations by a telescope in Hawaii clinche...
Dec 02, 2020
RCMP must take 'drastic actions' to restore confidence: former Supreme Court justice
OTTAWA - The author of a report that found a toxic, misogynistic culture in the RCMP says the police force must take some "drastic actions" right away to restore confidence. Former Supreme Court justi...
Dec 02, 2020
Saskatchewan government apologizes for photo of same-sex couple on World AIDS Day
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is apologizing for using a photo of two men to promote World AIDS Day. The government posted the picture showing the men standing side by side with their heads tou...
Dec 02, 2020
Canadian curlers prepare for prospect of a Calgary "bubble"
CALGARY - A potentially lengthy stay in Alberta, and trying to defend a national men's curling championship in front of zero fans, are thoughts circulating in Brad Gushue's mind. The veteran skip from...
Dec 02, 2020
Ex-NFL player Carlos Rogers pleads guilty in fraud scheme
LEXINGTON, Ky. - A 12th former NFL player has admitted to participating in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud the league's health care benefit program. Former Washington Football Team and San Fra...
Dec 02, 2020
Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86
LOS ANGELES - Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday. He was 86. He died at his home in the Sherman Oaks ...
Dec 02, 2020