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Canadian tennis players ready to start gearing up for the Australian Open
MELBOURNE, Australia - A busy stretch for Canadian tennis starts this weekend with Australian Open players emerging from quarantine. Australian Open qualifier Rebecca Marino of Vancouver kicks things ...
Jan 29, 2021
Trudeau announces suspended flights, mandatory three-day hotel quarantine for travellers
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced all Canadian travellers returning from overseas will have to take a COVID-19 test at the airport when they land and quarantine in a designated hote...
Jan 29, 2021
Pattison Canadian International is included on Woodbine's 2021 thoroughbred schedule
TORONTO - The Pattison Canadian International has been included on Woodbine's 2021 thoroughbred stakes schedule. The turf race was postponed last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic but is scheduled to ...
Jan 29, 2021
Saskatchewan spring sitting of legislature to start with tabling of budget
The Saskatchewan government says it will table its next budget on April 6th when the spring sitting of the legislature starts.Premier Scott Moe says it will be a budget designed to see the province th...
Jan 29, 2021
German financial oversight head out after Wirecard scandal
BERLIN - The head of Germany's financial supervisory authority will leave the job as the agency is reorganized in the aftermath of the accounting scandal at payment systems provider Wirecard, the fina...
Jan 29, 2021
China finance official executed in bribery case
BEIJING - The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company was executed Friday on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a recent corruption case. Lai Xiaomin of ...
Jan 29, 2021
Cicely Tyson paved way for Black actors to follow footsteps
LOS ANGELES - Cicely Tyson was a Black actor who knocked down doors so other women of colour could walk through them. With dignified grace, Tyson strategically selected powerful roles with an intent t...
Jan 29, 2021
Canadian women's speedskating team back on top of podium at World Cup
HEERENVEEN, Netherlands - Canada's women's team pursuit speedskating squad has captured gold at a World Cup for the second week in a row, while the Canadian men's squad earned silver. Ottawa's Ivanie ...
Jan 29, 2021
Johnson & Johnson says COVID-19 vaccine 85 per cent effective against severe illness
OTTAWA - American pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson says its vaccine is very good at preventing people from being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19. The vaccine is the first to use just a sin...
Jan 29, 2021
NDP calling on premier to remove Drew Barnes from UCP caucus
Alberta's NDP is calling on Premier Jason Kenney to remove Cypress-Medicine Hat MLA Drew Barnes from caucus over comments that called into question the reliability of COVID tests and the effectiveness...
Jan 29, 2021