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Toronto COVID-19 cases top 500 for first time
OTTAWA - Canada's largest city is reporting a record number of COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row. Toronto reports 520 new cases of COVID-19 today, after recording 482 new cases Monday. Ontari...
Nov 10, 2020
Quebec to fund new native friendship centre in city where Joyce Echaquan died
JOLIETTE, Que. - The Quebec government is investing $3.1 million for a new Native Friendship Centre in a city that was recently shaken by the death of an Indigenous woman in a local hospital. Indigeno...
Nov 10, 2020
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu plans to return for Australian swing
Canadian tennis star Bianca Andreescu is planning to make her long-awaited return to the WTA Tour this January in Australia. The 20-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., hasn't played a competitive m...
Nov 10, 2020
'Circuit breaker': Alberta considering options as COVID-19 cases continue to surge
EDMONTON - Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province is considering a short, but sharp economic lockdown that would act as a "circuit breaker'' to help reverse a recent spike in COVI...
Nov 10, 2020
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada
The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 10:50 a.m. Ontario is reporting a record high of 1,388 new COVID-19 cases today, and 15 new deaths due to the virus. Health Mini...
Nov 10, 2020
James Duthie shares some of hockey's greatest untold stories in 'Beauties'
James Duthie faced a big problem. After conducting dozens of interviews for a compilation of hockey stories - most of them previously known to only a select few - the award-winning broadcaster was stu...
Nov 10, 2020
Three go on trial for deadly 2017 Barcelona terror attacks
MADRID - Three people went on trial Tuesday in Spain for their alleged roles in terror attacks around Barcelona that killed 16 people and injured 140 others in 2017. The three - Driss Oukabir, Mohamed...
Nov 10, 2020
Vatican faults many for McCarrick's rise but spares pope
ROME - A Vatican investigation into ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has found that a series of bishops, cardinals and popes downplayed or dismissed reports that he slept with seminarians, and determine...
Nov 10, 2020
EU files antitrust charges against Amazon over use of data
LONDON - European Union regulators have filed antitrust charges against Amazon, accusing the e-commerce giant of using data to gain an unfair advantage over merchants using its platform. The EU's exec...
Nov 10, 2020
COVID may have reversed decline in Canadian trust in scientists, survey says
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may have boosted failing public trust in science and scientists, a new survey has found. "I think it's fantastic that we see the decline in skepticism about science ...
Nov 10, 2020