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Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic to shut after 35 years
VANCOUVER - A Vancouver abortion and reproductive health clinic that has operated for more than three decades is shutting its doors due to funding uncertainty. The Elizabeth Bagshaw Clinic says the fa...
Mar 28, 2025
South Carolina inmate chooses to die by firing squad like the last condemned inmate before him
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A second South Carolina death row inmate has asked to die by firing squad just five weeks after the state carried out its first death by bullets. Mikal Mahdi chose the firing squ...
Mar 28, 2025
Bayern Munich threatens Canadian soccer federation with legal action over Davies' injury
MUNICH (AP) - Bayern Munich is considering legal action against the Canadian soccer federation following Alphonso Davies' serious knee injury in a match of little importance. "We're demanding a full i...
Mar 28, 2025
Ottawa posts $26.8 billion deficit for April-to-January period
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $26.8 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2024-25 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $25.7 billion for the same...
Mar 28, 2025
Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to lift an order barring deportations under wartime law
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a cour...
Mar 28, 2025
Vancouver-based Loopy Godinez back to her roots with fight on UFC Mexico City card
The UFC has taken Vancouver-based strawweight Lupita (Loopy) Godinez to Abu Dhabi as well as Atlantic City, N.J., New York City, Miami, San Diego, Phoenix and Las Vegas (six times). But Saturday night...
Mar 28, 2025
Canada's Eliot Grodin wins snowboard cross gold at world championships
SAINT MORITZ - Canada's Eliot Grondin won gold in snowboard cross at the world championships Friday. The Ste-Marie, Que., native topped the podium ahead of France's Loan Bozzolo and Austria's Alessand...
Mar 28, 2025
Wintry conditions hitting much of Canada, commuter chaos and power outages possible
A blast of wintry weather across a swath of Canada is expected to disrupt commutes and bring possible power outages as a long line of warnings stretch from Edmonton to the shores of Lake Ontario. Envi...
Mar 28, 2025
Powerful earthquake rocks Thailand and Myanmar, killing at least 3 in Bangkok high-rise collapse
BANGKOK (AP) - A powerful earthquake rocked Myanmar and neighboring Thailand on Friday, killing at least three people in Bangkok and burying dozens when a high-rise building under construction collaps...
Mar 28, 2025
Israel strikes Beirut for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Israel has launched an attack on the Lebanese capital, Beirut, for the first time since a ceasefire ended the latest Israel-Hezbollah war in November. Associated Press reporters...
Mar 28, 2025
