The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a watchdog report Thursday. It also said no undercover FBI employees were present that day and none of the bureau's informants ...
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The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot, watchdog finds
WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI should have done more to collect intelligence before the Capitol riot even though the bureau did prepare for the possibility of violence on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a watchdog report Thursday. It also said no undercover FBI employees were present that day and none of the bureau's informants ...
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McIntosh sets another record, Kharun also wins gold at short-course championships
BUDAPEST - Canadian swimming star Summer McIntosh smashed another short-course world record with a dominant victory in the women's 200-metre butterfly at the world championships on Thursday. Minutes later, Ilya Kharun won the men's 200 butterfly to give Canada its third straight multi-medal day at the event. The 18-yea...
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Canada's Thompson victorious in ski cross World Cup opener, Drury wins bronze
VAL THORENS - Canada's Marielle Thompson raced to a gold medal at the opening event of the World Cup ski cross season. Thompson, who won the women's ski cross Crystal Globe as the overall winner last season, finished ahead of three-time World Cup ski cross champion Fanny Smith of Switzerland to take the big final. Germ...
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Medicine Hat's Mustard Seed adding new shelter spaces at Alberta government's request
The Mustard Seed in Medicine Hat said Thursday it's preparing to add 20 additional temporary shelter spaces to its Flats neighbourhood location at the request of the Alberta government. The additions to its Community Impact Centre on Allowance Avenue Southeast aim to provide safe, warm shelter for vulnerable individual...
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Alberta to put $29M into border security patrol unit with sheriffs, dogs, drones
Premier Danielle Smith said Thursday the province is putting $29 million into creating a new sheriff patrol unit to shore up security at the Canada-United States border. The unit is to be supported by about 50 sheriffs, 10 cold weather surveillance drones and four drug detection dogs and is expected to be operational e...
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Border officials, RCMP to testify on impact of Trump's plans for border security
OTTAWA - Canadian officials in charge of border enforcement will testify at a parliamentary committee later today on the impact of president-elect Donald Trump's plans for border security and migration. Canada Border Services Agency President Erin O'Gorman and Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner Michael Duheme w...
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Canadian flyweight Jamey-Lyn Horth wastes little time getting back in the UFC cage
Canadian flyweight Jamey-Lyn Horth waited 11 months for her last UFC fight. This time it's taken just six weeks to get back into the cage. The 34-year-old from Squamish, B.C., looks for her third win in four UFC outings when she tackles American Miranda (Fear The) Maverick on a UFC Fight Night card Saturday in Tampa, F...
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Canada says it wants to slash its emissions by half by 2035. Will that be enough?
TORONTO - Canada is aiming to cut its emissions in half by 2035 compared to 2005 levels, a newly released target range that is lower than what a federal advisory body recommended. Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault says a target of reducing emissions by 45 to 50 per cent balances both ambition an...
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Wander Franco's sex abuse trial has been postponed 5 months
PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic (AP) - The trial against Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco, who has been charged with sexually abusing a minor, sexual and commercial exploitation against a minor, and human trafficking, was postponed on Thursday and scheduled to resume June 2, 2025. Dominican judge Yacaira Veras p...
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