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Vaccine rollout set to shift into high gear with major surge in expected deliveries
OTTAWA, Ill. - Canada's COVID-19 vaccination drive is poised to shift into high gear this week as the federal public health agency prepares to take delivery of the largest number of doses since the la...
Mar 22, 2021

Sandy Hawley to appear before House of Commons Committee on Justice and Human Rights
TORONTO - Hall of Fame jockey Sandy Hawley is scheduled to appear before a House of Commons committee Tuesday as part of its study of a private member's bill calling for the legalization of single-eve...
Mar 22, 2021

Ikea France on trial over claims it spied on staff, clients
VERSAILLES, France - Ikea's French subsidiary and several of its former executives went on trial Monday over accusations that they illegally spied on employees and customers. Trade unions reported the...
Mar 22, 2021

Truck carrying migrants overturns in Croatia, killing 4
ZAGREB, Croatia - A freight truck overturned in Croatia early Monday, killing four migrants who were hiding inside and injuring a number of others, police said. The crash happened on a highway near th...
Mar 22, 2021

Senate staffers fear new harassment policy being blocked by senators
OTTAWA - Some Senate staffers are concerned that a new policy meant to protect them from workplace harassment is being blocked in the upper house by a handful of senators. But Sen. Marilou McPhedran, ...
Mar 22, 2021

Turkish lira plummets after Erdogan fires central bank chief
ANKARA, Turkey - The Turkish currency plummeted against the U.S. dollar on Monday after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan fired his third central bank head in less than two years, raising concerns about ...
Mar 22, 2021

Saudi Arabia offers cease-fire plan to Yemen rebels
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Saudi Arabia announced a plan Monday to offer Yemen's Houthi rebels a cease-fire in the country's yearslong war and allow a major airport to reopen in its capital, the ki...
Mar 22, 2021

Former deputy NORAD commander leaving military after having affair while in U.S.
OTTAWA - A senior military officer who had an affair while deputy commander of North America's early-warning system is leaving the military. Lt.-Gen. Christopher Coates announced his pending departure...
Mar 22, 2021

Crafting craze hits Medicine Hat
MEDICINE HAT, AB-- At the Duddy household it's another day of woodworking. Together this couple has been busy, cutting, crafting, and creating. " For the string art that's one we usually do together. ...
Mar 22, 2021

Acclaimed Polish poet Adam Zagajewski dies at age 75
WARSAW, Poland - Adam Zagajewski, one of Poland's greatest poets who wrote a poem that came to symbolize the world's sense of shock and loss after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, has died i...
Mar 22, 2021