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Bloc asks Ottawa to support logging, fledgling biofuels sector
OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is calling on the federal government to recharge Quebec's forestry sector with an eye to its energy potential. The Bloc is laying out a slate of prop...
Apr 08, 2021
Two Canadian riders forced to drop out of Basque race after crashes
TORONTO - Canadian rider Michael Woods withdrew from the Itzulia Basque Country race Thursday in the wake of a crash near the end of Stage 3. Woods' team, Israel Start-Up Nation, said the 34-year-old ...
Apr 08, 2021
2 new airlines await Americans looking to fly somewhere
Americans are travelling in the greatest numbers in more than a year, and soon they will have two new leisure-oriented airlines to consider for those trips. Both hope to draw passengers by filling in ...
Apr 08, 2021
Montreal police arrest suspect after woman of Asian origin threatened on city's metro
Montreal police say they've arrested a man who allegedly made death threats to a woman of Asian origin on the city's subway system.Police say the victim was in a metro car on March 27 when the suspect...
Apr 08, 2021
Doctors group says changing rules causes confusion as COVID-19 variants surge
As Ontario brings back stay-at-home orders to deal with surging cases of COVID-19, the Canadian Medical Association says continually changing rules have contributed to confusion and relaxed adherence....
Apr 08, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada for Thursday, April 8, 2021
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:40 a.m. Ontario reports 3,295 new cases of COVID-19 and 19 more deaths linked to the virus. Health Minister Christine Elliott...
Apr 08, 2021
Number of kids alone at border hits all-time high in March
WASHINGTON - The U.S. government picked up nearly 19,000 children travelling alone across the Mexican border in March, authorities said Thursday, the largest monthly number ever recorded and a major t...
Apr 08, 2021
Lawyer: Russian opposition leader Navalny has spinal hernias
MOSCOW - A lawyer for imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who has complained of serious back and leg pain in custody, said Wednesday that doctors have found him to be suffering from t...
Apr 08, 2021
On Holocaust Day, Netanyahu issues warning about Iran
JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday urged the world not to revive the troubled international nuclear deal with Iran as he opened Israel's annual memorial day for the 6 million J...
Apr 08, 2021
Myanmar security forces attack town that resisted with arms
YANGON, Myanmar - Security forces on Wednesday stormed a town in northwestern Myanmar where some residents had used homemade hunting rifles to resist the military's February seizure of power, killing ...
Apr 08, 2021