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Ottawa Aces add bite with six-foot-seven, 275-pound prop Adam Lawton
OTTAWA - The Ottawa Aces have added six-foot-seven, 275-pound prop Adam Lawton for their inaugural 2021 season. Lawton, 27, arrives from fellow League 1 side Newcastle Thunder. He is the 18th player t...
Oct 06, 2020
Quebec reports more than 1,000 new COVID-19 cases for fifth straight day
OTTAWA - Canada's two most populous provinces remain COVID-19 hot spots today, with Quebec setting a record for new daily case counts. Cases are surging in several parts of the country but Quebec and ...
Oct 06, 2020
Activists, scientists, authors among 'genius grant' fellows
CHICAGO - An activist speaking out about inadequate waste and water sanitation in rural America, an author of young adult and children's literature reflecting the world's diversity, and a neuroscienti...
Oct 06, 2020
Man charged in 2018 Fredericton murders listed people he believed to be demons
FREDERICTON - The trial of the man accused of four murders in Fredericton two years ago has been told Matthew Raymond spent much of the year before the shootings trying to identify demons. Raymond is ...
Oct 06, 2020
The latest numbers on COVID-19 in Canada for Oct. 6
The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4 a.m. EDT on Oct. 6, 2020: There are 168,961 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 79,650 confirmed (including 5,884 deaths, 66,180 resol...
Oct 06, 2020
Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal, charged by RCMP, has case adjourned to January
OTTAWA - A former Liberal MP facing charges of fraud and breach of trust related to his time in office has had his case adjourned until early next year. Lawyers for Raj Grewal and the Crown agreed to ...
Oct 06, 2020
Number of new COVID-19 cases in Quebec reaches record high for second straight day
MONTREAL - Health authorities in Quebec are reporting a record number of new COVID-19 cases for the second day in a row. There were 1,364 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the province over the past ...
Oct 06, 2020
Liberals' 'supercluster' program falling short of promised jobs, economic growth
OTTAWA - The parliamentary spending watchdog says a government program to fuse public and private money to promote innovation appears to be well shy of its promise. The Liberals created their "supercl...
Oct 06, 2020
'It'll be just as special': Blazers' Zary looking at positives ahead of virtual NHL Draft
KAMLOOPS - Connor Zary grew up cheering for the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Tuesday night, Toronto could be the team that picks him to add to an already offensively-talented group. "I kind of started watc...
Oct 06, 2020
Green party won't support Liberals on throne-speech vote, new leader says
OTTAWA - New Green party Leader Annamie Paul says her party won't support the Liberal government's speech from the throne.Paul says there were some very good things in the Liberals' agenda-setting spe...
Oct 06, 2020
