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AP sources: Biden not expected to veto GOP effort on DC laws
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden isn't expected to veto Republican-sponsored resolutions that would block new District of Columbia laws that change how the nation's capital votes and how the city...
Mar 02, 2023

Supreme Court to look at issue of Crown liability when a law is struck down
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will examine whether the Crown enjoys absolute immunity from a civil suit seeking damages over passage of a law that is found to be unconstitutional. The top court...
Mar 02, 2023

Cubs tied 2-2 heading back home
MEDICINE HAT, AB - The Medicine Hat Cubs' second-round playoff series is down to a best-of-three.The Cubs fell 6-4 to the Cochrane Generals on Wednesday in Game 4 of their Heritage Junior Hockey Leagu...
Mar 02, 2023

Toronto FC gets positive news about injury to Italian star winger Lorenzo Insigne
TORONTO - The injury news on Toronto FC star Lorenzo Insigne is positive. Insigne, who hobbled off the pitch in last weekend's season-opening loss at D.C. United, trained briefly Friday and is listed ...
Mar 02, 2023

Canada, China had better relationship at time of Trudeau Foundation pledge: Rosenberg
OTTAWA - The former head of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation says the level of caution Canadian institutions must now take when dealing with China was not top of mind when the charitable organiza...
Mar 02, 2023

Brooks RCMP seek driver who approached teen girl, suspects in attempted theft
BROOKS, AB - RCMP in Brooks are searching for a male following an encounter with a teenage girl on March 1.At about 12:55 p.m. a 16-year-old female was walking home from school when the driver of a da...
Mar 02, 2023

Greece train crash death toll rises to 57 amid search
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) - The death toll from the head-on collision of a passenger train and a freight train in Greece has risen to 57. Police spokeswoman Constandia Dimoglidou said in a briefing Th...
Mar 02, 2023

Ottawa ends shipments of rapid COVID-19 tests as millions set to expire
The federal government has stopped shipping rapid COVID-19 antigen tests to provinces as millions are set to expire within the year, and experts say the once-essential tool has lost its importance in ...
Mar 02, 2023

Montreal university says no indication donation by Chinese billionaire was suspect
MONTREAL - The Montreal university that was promised an $800,000 donation as part of an alleged plot by the Chinese government to influence Justin Trudeau says the pledge came at a different time in C...
Mar 02, 2023

Half of California freed from drought thanks to rain, snow
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Tremendous rains and snowfall since late last year have freed half of California from drought, but low groundwater levels remain a persistent problem, U.S. Drought Monitor data show...
Mar 02, 2023