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Green Leader Elizabeth May says no list of disloyal MPs in full spy watchdog report
OTTAWA - The Green Party's Elizabeth May says she believes the small number of MPs named in a recent spy watchdog report did not knowingly set out to betray Canada. May said Tuesday she is "vastly rel...
Jun 11, 2024
Canada routed 3-0 by Italy in women's Volleyball Nations League action
FUKUOKA - The Canadian women's volleyball team's push for Olympic qualification hit a snag Tuesday with a lopsided 3-0 loss to Italy in Volleyball Nations League action. The Italians, ranked fourth in...
Jun 11, 2024
B.C. should step up on asylum claims, minister says in response to call for funds
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Marc Miller says British Columbia needs to step up and take on more asylum seekers who come to Canada. He was responding today to criticism from the B.C. premier, who say...
Jun 11, 2024
Establishing new regulator for online harms law 'will take some time,' minister says
OTTAWA - Canada's justice minister says it will "take some time" to create a new regulator to compel internet giants to better protect Canadians against online harms. Arif Virani's comments come as th...
Jun 11, 2024
Canada's Andreescu opens grass-court season with win over Vedder at Libema Open
Canada's Bianca Andreescu started off her grass-court season with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 win over Dutch qualifier Eva Vedder on Tuesday in first-round action at the Libema Open. Andreescu won on her second m...
Jun 11, 2024
Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband's 1990 killing for the first time
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Pamela Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time...
Jun 11, 2024
Border strike averted after union reaches tentative agreement with Ottawa
OTTAWA - Workers at Canada's borders are no longer planning to go on strike this week after their union reached a tentative agreement with the federal government. The Public Service Alliance of Canada...
Jun 11, 2024
McGill makes new offer to pro-Palestinian protesters occupying its downtown campus
MONTREAL - Montreal's McGill University is proposing to review its investments in weapons manufacturers and grant amnesty to protesting students as part of a new offer to members of a pro-Palestinian ...
Jun 11, 2024
Border strike averted after union reaches tentative deal with Ottawa
OTTAWA - Workers at Canada's borders won't go on strike this week, after their union reached a tentative agreement with the federal government.The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it's reached a...
Jun 11, 2024
Microsoft's pushing PC users to Windows 11. Here's what that means
Microsoft users of the Windows 10 operating system received a message in recent weeks saying that support for the operating system will be ending next year.According to IFIX owner Justin Neigel, opera...
Jun 11, 2024