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More than 1.3 million immigration applications still in backlog
OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Sean Fraser says his department is going on a hiring spree to bring 1,250 new employees on board by the end of the fall to tackle massive backlogs in processing applicati...
Aug 24, 2022
Belarus' Azarenka dropped from Ukraine exhibition at US Open
NEW YORK (AP) - Two-time major champion and former No. 1 Victoria Azarenka was dropped Wednesday from a pre-U.S. Open exhibition event raising money for humanitarian assistance in Ukraine. Azarenka is...
Aug 24, 2022
Head of federal telecom regulator did not breach Conflict of Interest Act: watchdog
OTTAWA - The federal ethics watchdog says the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission did not breach the Conflict of Interest Act when he held meetings with large telec...
Aug 24, 2022
Maier gets nod ahead of veteran Bo Levi Mitchell for Calgary Stampeders
WINNIPEG - A first for Jake Maier. The second-year quarterback will be Calgary's starter Thursday night when the Stampeders (6-3) visit the Winnipeg Blue Bombers (9-1). The start will be Maier's fourt...
Aug 24, 2022
Canada back on top of the women's hockey world, but work continues to stay there
Canada's women's hockey team starts the world championship remembering the words of a man who climbed Mount Everest twice. Jamie Clarke, a Canadian adventurer who reached the top of the world's highes...
Aug 24, 2022
A team-by-team look at the women's world hockey championship field
A capsule look at the 10 teams competing in the 2022 women's world ice hockey championship in Herning and Frederikshavn, Denmark. Listed in order of finish in Calgary in 2021. CANADA The reigning worl...
Aug 24, 2022
RCMP Commissioner Lucki grilled at N.S. inquiry about failure to implement reforms
HALIFAX - RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki is facing questions today at a public inquiry into the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting on why the police force didn't move more swiftly to implement recommendat...
Aug 24, 2022
2016 champion Kerber out of US Open; says she's pregnant
NEW YORK (AP) - Three-time Grand Slam champion Angelique Kerber withdrew from the U.S. Open on Wednesday because she is pregnant, announcing the news via social media by joking that "two against one j...
Aug 24, 2022
CF Montreal sending Mihailovic to Dutch club AZ Alkmaar
MONTREAL - Star midfielder Djordje Mihailovic will be leaving CF Montreal at the end of the Major League Soccer season. The team announced Wednesday that it has sold Mihailovic's playing rights to Dut...
Aug 24, 2022
Teen pilot sets age record for solo flight around world
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) - A Belgian-British teenager became the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft after he landed on Wednesday in Bulgaria, where his global journey kicked ...
Aug 24, 2022
