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Business investment per worker fell 20% between 2006 and 2021, StatCan says
OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada study says Canadian businesses invested 20 per cent less per employee between 2006 and 2021. That means for every worker, businesses invested $628.80 less in their com...
Feb 22, 2024
Mother of Kremlin critic Navalny says she's resisting pressure to agree to a secret burial
MOSCOW (AP) - The mother of Russia's top opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Thursday that she has seen her son's body and that she is resisting strong pressure by authorities to agree to a secret b...
Feb 22, 2024
Dabrowski, Routliffe move on to women's doubles semifinals in Dubai
DUBAI CITY, United Arab Emirates - The second-seeded team of Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski and New Zealand's Erin Routliffe moved on to the semifinals of the Dubai Tennis Championships with a 6-4, 6-4 q...
Feb 22, 2024
Quebec to table budget on March 12 amid warnings of larger deficit
QUEBEC - The Quebec government will present a budget on March 12 that is expected to have a larger deficit than originally estimated. Quebec's Finance Minister Eric Girard said today the government's ...
Feb 22, 2024
Soccer star Dani Alves found guilty of rape, sentenced to four and a half years in prison
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Dani Alves, one of the most successful soccer players of his generation, was found guilty of raping a woman in a Barcelona nightclub and sentenced to four years and six months ...
Feb 22, 2024
Canadian retail sales up 0.9% in December, helped by stronger new car sales
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says retail sales rose 0.9 per cent to $67.3 billion in December, helped by strength in sales at new car dealers. However, the agency says its early estimate of retail sales...
Feb 22, 2024
ROTHENBURGER: Free speech versus protecting schools from disruptive protests
THRONE SPEECHES are typically vapid snoozers, and B.C.'s NDP government didn't let us down this week. The Throne Speech is supposed to give us a general idea of what the government's priorities are fo...
Feb 22, 2024
Peiyun Chien leads by two strokes after first round of the LPGA Thailand tournament
CHONBURI, Thailand (AP) - Peiyun Chien shot an 8-under 64 on Thursday to take a two-stroke lead after the first round of the LPGA Tour event in Thailand, the first of three tournaments on the LPGA's A...
Feb 22, 2024
Albanian Parliament approves controversial deal to hold migrants for Italy
TIRANA, Albania (AP) - Albania's Parliament on Thursday approved a deal for the country to hold thousands of migrants rescued in international waters by Italy while their asylum applications are proce...
Feb 22, 2024
Barcelona court finds Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves guilty of sexual assault
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - Brazilian soccer star Dani Alves was found guilty of sexually assaulting a young woman in a Barcelona nightclub, a Spanish court ruled on Thursday. The three-judge panel senten...
Feb 22, 2024
