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Afghanistan's first female Olympian urges Canada to speed asylum process for refugees
VANCOUVER - Shortly after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Friba Rezayee's phone started lighting up with messages from women and girls pleading for help. Rezayee, who made history as one of Afghanist...
Sep 10, 2021
Pope Francis to visit impoverished Roma quarter in Slovakia
KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) - Pope Francis is paying a visit next week to a neighborhood in Slovakia most Slovaks would not even think about going, which until recently even the police would avoid after dar...
Sep 10, 2021
Former B.C. lottery director says he's 'whistleblower' on money laundering at casinos
VANCOUVER - A former director of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation's anti-money laundering office says he is the "whistleblower" that likely prompted the public inquiry examining how hundreds o...
Sep 09, 2021
Quick Quotes: What the leaders said during the English election debate on Thursday
GATINEAU, Que. - The official English-language televised debate took place Thursday night at the Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. Here are some key quotes from Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conser...
Sep 09, 2021
Jays beat Yanks for 8th straight, 1/2 game back in wild card
NEW YORK (AP) - Bo Bichette thumped a leadoff homer in the first inning and singled in the tiebreaking run in the seventh, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 42nd homer, and the Toronto Blue Jays held off ...
Sep 09, 2021
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil leaders charged with subversion
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong police charged the group that organizes the city's annual Tiananmen candlelight vigil and three of its leaders with subversion under the national security law, amid an ongoi...
Sep 09, 2021
Biden calls Xi as U.S.-China relationship grows more fraught
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden spoke with China's Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing frustration on the American side that high-level engagement between the two leaders' top advisers has been ...
Sep 09, 2021
The Latest on the federal leaders' English-language election debate
The Latest on the English-language leaders' debate among Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet and Green ...
Sep 09, 2021
Unseeded Fernandez, 19, reaches 1st Slam final at U.S. Open
NEW YORK (AP) - Leylah Fernandez's first major semifinal, at the U.S. Open just days after her 19th birthday, did not go her way at the start. After she recovered from that to take a lead, No. 2 seed ...
Sep 09, 2021
Canada's Leylah Fernandez into U.S. Open final with win over Alyna Sabalenka
NEW YORK - Canada's newest teenaged tennis hero is headed to the U.S. Open women's final. Leylah Fernandez, of Laval, Que., fought back from an early 4-1 first-set deficit to narrowly defeat Aryna Sab...
Sep 09, 2021