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Social media comments blocked: Montreal mayor says she won't accept being insulted
MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante is defending her decision to turn off comments on her social media accounts - with an announcement on social media. She posted screenshots to X this morning of ...
Sep 11, 2024
All nine CFL teams unveil 10 players from their respective negotiation lists
TORONTO - He's currently a senior at Purdue but quarterback Hudson Card now has a second option at a pro football career. Card was one of 10 negotiation-list players revealed Wednesday by the Edmonton...
Sep 11, 2024
PM, senior security officials slated to return to foreign interference inquiry
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and members of his inner circle are slated to return to a federal inquiry into foreign interference in coming weeks. A newly published provisional witness list f...
Sep 11, 2024
Interfaith Food Bank in 'urgent need' of donations
LETHBRIDGE, AB - One of the food banks in Lethbridge says their supplies are dwindling and items are leaving their facility as fast as they are coming in.Interfaith Food Bank Executive Director Daniel...
Sep 11, 2024
Two Quebec real estate brokers suspended for using fake bids to drive up prices
MONTREAL - Two Quebec real estate brokers are facing fines and years-long suspensions for submitting bogus offers on homes to drive up prices during the COVID-19 pandemic. Christine Girouard has been ...
Sep 11, 2024
Soyuz craft heads to space station with 2 Russians and 1 American
MOSCOW (AP) - A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American blasted off Wednesday for an express trip to the International Space Station. The space capsule atop a towering rocket set off at...
Sep 11, 2024
Speaker Johnson pulls a vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months when the new budget year begins on Oct. ...
Sep 11, 2024
Israeli airstrikes hit UN school and homes in Gaza, killing at least 34 people, hospitals say
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli airstrikes across Gaza overnight and Wednesday hit a U.N. school sheltering displaced Palestinian families as well as two homes, killing at least 34 people, in...
Sep 11, 2024
Speaker Johnson pulls a vote on a bill to avoid a partial government shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker Mike Johnson pulled a vote Wednesday on a temporary spending bill that would keep federal agencies and programs funded for six months when the new budget year begins on Oct. ...
Sep 11, 2024
2018 world junior appeal adjourned by independent panel until criminal trial complete
CALGARY - An appeal made by members of Canada's 2018 world junior hockey team to an independent board has been adjourned until the criminal trial involving those players has ended. A London, Ont., cou...
Sep 11, 2024