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Rihanna talks motherhood, Super Bowl: 'It was now or never'
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) - Rihanna knew that if she was going to return to the stage less than a year after giving birth to her first child, the performance would have to top anything she'd done befor...
Nov 07, 2022

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers buying IAA in deal worth US$7.3 billion, including debt
VANCOUVER - Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Inc. says it has signed a deal to acquire U.S. company IAA Inc. in a transaction valued at about US$7.3 billion including the assumption of US$1.0 billion of net ...
Nov 07, 2022

ROTHENBURGER: Failure to be ready with winter homeless shelters is mind-blowing
IT'S SIMPLY MIND-BLOWING that Kamloops has been caught so off-guard on winter shelter for the homeless this year.Though the sudden drop in temperature, along with some serious snowfall, came a couple ...
Nov 07, 2022

Health ministers meeting, Emergencies Act inquiry continues : In The News for Nov. 7
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Nov. 7 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Nov 07, 2022

Provincial and territorial health ministers meeting with federal counterpart in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Canada's health ministers are set to meet in British Columbia this week, four months after premiers from across the country gathered in Victoria to show a united front of frustration over ...
Nov 07, 2022

Windsor mayor, Mendicino texted about Emergencies Act before it was invoked: document
OTTAWA - The mayor of Windsor, Ont., will testify today at a public inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to clear 'Freedom Convoy' protesters blockading streets around Parl...
Nov 07, 2022

'We are resilient': Hay River, N.W.T., still recovering months after historic flood
HAY RIVER, N.W.T. - Kandis Jameson remembers hearing trees on the shore of the Hay River "snapping like toothpicks" as water levels quickly rose this spring. "It was the eeriest feeling," the mayor of...
Nov 07, 2022

Quebec's highest court to begin hearing appeals on provincial secularism law
MONTREAL - Quebec's highest court is set to begin hearing appeals on the constitutionality of the province's secularism law, known as Bill 21. Both the Quebec government and groups opposing the law ar...
Nov 07, 2022

Monkeypox 'almost eradicated' in Montreal, once epicentre of virus outbreak in Canada
MONTREAL - Once the epicentre of Canada's monkeypox outbreak, Montreal has almost eradicated the virus on its territory, according to doctors in the city - but they warn it's too early to declare vict...
Nov 07, 2022

Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos II dies at 81
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) - Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the outspoken leader of Cyprus' Greek Orthodox Christian Church whose forays into the country's complex politics and finances fired up supporters and...
Nov 06, 2022

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