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Pandemic keeps Canadian luge team at home to start season
CALGARY - The Canadian luge team will stay home and skip the first portion of the World Cup season because of the COVID-19 pandemic. World Cup races open Nov. 24 in Austria, but Canada will not compet...
Oct 08, 2020
On edge of 72, Stevie Nicks just wants to sing a song live
NEW YORK - It's Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and Stevie Nicks is singing on the phone. The rock icon is at her Los Angeles home, where she's been cooped up since December after wrapping the "An Evening with ...
Oct 08, 2020
Gov. Charlie Baker to be honoured with bobblehead doll
BOSTON - Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is getting the bobblehead treatment for his response to the coronavirus pandemic. The National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in Milwaukee on Thursday unv...
Oct 08, 2020
Feds double COVID-19 fund for abused women to $100 million
OTTAWA - Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef says the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the conditions that make women, children and gender-diverse people vulnerable to violence. She says that's wh...
Oct 08, 2020
Taliban cheer Trump tweet promising early troop withdrawal
ISLAMABAD - The Afghan Taliban on Thursday welcomed a tweet from President Donald Trump in which he promised to have the last of U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Christmas - or at least by the end of...
Oct 08, 2020
COVID-19 pandemic accelerating digital privacy risks, federal watchdog warns
OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar says the COVID-19 pandemic is underscoring weaknesses in the law that place the personal information of Canadians at risk. In his annual report presented to Parliamen...
Oct 08, 2020
Testimony at Fredericton murder trial on hold while lawyers discuss SCOC decision
FREDERICTON - Testimony at the Matthew Raymond murder trial in Fredericton is on hold until Friday morning. Justice Larry Landry of the Court of Queen's Bench told the jury today that a Supreme Court ...
Oct 08, 2020
Canadian military-college students report widespread sexual misconduct
OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada report says more than two-thirds of students at the country's military colleges personally witnessed or experienced unwanted sexual behaviour in the past year. The fin...
Oct 08, 2020
Quebec reports 1,078 new COVID-19 infections, nine more deaths linked to virus
MONTREAL - Premier Francois Legault says the province is reporting 1,078 new COVID-19 cases and nine more deaths attributed to the novel coronavirus. Legault told reporters today hospitalizations incr...
Oct 08, 2020
Penhold man charged for assault at Sept. 20 anti-racism event in Red Deer
RED DEER, AB - RCMP say their investigation into altercations that broke out after an anti-racism demonstration last month in Red Deer was disrupted has determined that three separate assaults took pl...
Oct 08, 2020