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Italy's Meloni easily wins 2nd and final confidence vote
ROME (AP) - Italy's new far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has easily won the second of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. Wednesday night's vote in t...
Oct 26, 2022

Canada's Auger-Aliassime advances to Round of 16 at Swiss Indoors
BASEL, Switzerland - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the Round of 16 at the Swiss Indoors with a three-set win over Switzerland's Marc-Andrea Huesler on Wednesday. The Montreal native beat ...
Oct 26, 2022

City back to asking for proposals for future of Monarch Theatre
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The future story of the Monarch Theatre has taken another plot twist.After inheriting the historic theatre from the previous council, the current council asked for expressions of in...
Oct 26, 2022

Overhaul transparency law by adopting long-standing calls for change, group tells MPs
OTTAWA - A pro-transparency group is telling MPs to retool the Access to Information Act by dropping the application fee, imposing tighter timelines to respond to requests for files and narrowing exce...
Oct 26, 2022

Byelection campaign in Medicine Hat at the halfway point
MEDICINE HAT, AB - It is the halfway point in the byelection campaign for the constituency of Brooks-Medicine Hat.NDP candidate Gwendoline Dirk was joined by Opposition Leader Rachel Notley. Notley sa...
Oct 26, 2022

Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after temperature records and drought
VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of d...
Oct 26, 2022

Ex-Ottawa police chief says force couldn't change much about response to convoy
OTTAWA - The former chief of the Ottawa police says his officers couldn't have done anything materially differently during the response to the "Freedom Convoy." A summary report of an interview with P...
Oct 26, 2022

CP NewsAlert: France denies extradition for priest facing charge in Nunavut
The federal government says France has denied an extradition request for Johannes Rivoire, a priest accused of crimes against children in Nunavut. More to come. The Canadian Press
Oct 26, 2022

Danielle Smith's presence at grand opening event raising concerns
Questions are being raised about Danielle Smith's presence at an event in the southern Alberta constituency where she's running for a seat in the legislature.Smith, who became premier and leader of th...
Oct 26, 2022

Judge orders Meadows to testify in Georgia election probe
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allie...
Oct 26, 2022