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Ottawa willing to add to list of medications covered by pharmacare bill: minister
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland says the government is open to adding more medications to the list of drugs covered by its proposed pharmacare program. Holland made the comments at a parliamenta...
May 23, 2024
The collapse of a building on Spain’s Mallorca island leaves 4 people dead, officials say
MADRID (AP) - Four people died and 21 more were injured Thursday when a building collapsed on the island of Mallorca, Spanish emergency authorities said. The accident occurred in the city of Palma on ...
May 23, 2024
Canadian stars Nurse, Sutton-Brown hope Toronto's WNBA team inspires new generation
Vince Carter's highlight-reel dunks for the Toronto Raptors in the early 2000s inspired a generation of Canadian basketball players. Hamilton's Kia Nurse is hoping that a new WNBA franchise awarded to...
May 23, 2024
Montreal police arrest 20-year-old suspect in Jewish school shooting last November
MONTREAL - Montreal police say they have arrested a 20-year-old man in connection with gunshots that were fired at a Jewish school in the city in late 2023. Last November, police found bullet holes in...
May 23, 2024
'Five feet nothing': Pickton's safety likely behind Quebec move, says ex-prison judge
VICTORIA - When serial killer Robert Pickton was transferred from British Columbia's Kent Institution to a maximum-security prison in Quebec about six years ago, correctional authorities gave no publi...
May 23, 2024
Canada and U.S. suspend all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook salmon
WHITEHORSE - Canada and the United States are suspending all fishing for Canadian-origin Yukon River chinook salmon for seven years in an attempt to protect the dwindling species. The agreement covers...
May 23, 2024
Canada 7th in foreign aid spending, but a fifth goes to refugees inside the country
OTTAWA - While Canada is one of the top contributors to foreign aid among some of the world's richest countries, a fifth of the spending never leaves Canada's borders. Some 19 per cent of Canada's aid...
May 23, 2024
In the news today: How foreign aid flows, New citizenship bill to be tabled in Ottawa
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... A fifth of foreign aid goes to refugees in Canada While Canada is one of the to...
May 23, 2024
Plan to wake serial killer Robert Pickton from coma: Quebec police
QUBEC - A spokesman for Quebec's provincial police says British Columbia serial killer Robert Pickton is in a medically induced coma after a prison attack and doctors planned to try to wake him soon. ...
May 23, 2024
New bill would let Canadians to pass citizenship rights down to children born abroad
OTTAWA - A new government bill tabled in the House of Commons on Thursday would allow Canadians to pass citizenship rights down to their children born outside the country - a move that would add an un...
May 23, 2024