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With deadline looming, group wants more census documents
With the Census Bureau days away from likely missing a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, President Donald Trump's administration still hasn't turned ov...
Dec 29, 2020
White House wins ruling on disclosing health care prices
WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favour of the Trump administration's plan to require hospitals and insurers to disclose the actual prices for common tests and procedures. The White Ho...
Dec 29, 2020
Diddy providing some COVID-19 relief for Miami neighbourhood
MIAMI - Rapper Sean "Diddy" Combs provided some coronavirus relief in a Miami neighbourhood on Tuesday, handing out $50 bills amid a crowd of hundreds. He was joined by his children at the event set u...
Dec 29, 2020
Quebec Liberal vacationing down south despite repeated warnings to stay home
MONTREAL - Quebec Liberal member Pierre Arcand is vacationing with his wife in the Caribbean despite warnings from the federal and provincial governments to stay home during the pandemic. The Canadian...
Dec 29, 2020
MLS triggering 'force majure' clause in contract over COVID-19 losses
Less than a year after agreeing to a new five-year collective bargaining agreement, Major League Soccer and its players union are heading back to the bargaining table. The league has told the MLS Play...
Dec 29, 2020
Two suspects identified in theft of jade boulder in British Columbia: RCMP
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - The RCMP say they've identified two suspects in an investigation into the theft of a massive slab of low-grade jade from outside a gift shop in B.C.'s southern Interior earlier thi...
Dec 29, 2020
Local junior hockey teams "relieved" by latest PHO change of restrictions
KAMLOOP --- The provincial health office has changed some of the rules on COVID-19 safety precautions and how it relates to junior hockey in B.C.Players 21-and-under can now practice under COVID safet...
Dec 29, 2020
'I'm not going to change my game': Perry eager to bring grit, experience to Canadiens
Corey Perry had to set the record straight. Although the NHL's website - and most online hockey databases - lists his birthplace as Peterborough, Ont., the winger actually spent the first 10 years of ...
Dec 29, 2020
Blizzard blasts Nunavut, 135 km/h winds rip off stairs and crush cabins
IQALUIT - Pangnirtung mayor Eric Lawlor couldn't see out his windows on Sunday.That's when a day-long blizzard hit the Baffin Island community of about 1,500, shaking houses and crushing cabins. Accor...
Dec 29, 2020
Former Alberta cabinet minister turned Independent senator Elaine McCoy dies
OTTAWA - Sen. Elaine McCoy, who sat as an Independent from the day she was appointed to the upper chamber, has died.McCoy died Tuesday in Ottawa. She was 74.Born in Brandon, Man., McCoy began her care...
Dec 29, 2020
