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100 days to Paralympics: Anderson says a medal in Tokyo would be "extra heavy"
Patrick Anderson has captured four Paralympic and four world championship medals over his stellar wheelchair basketball career. But he says if he and his Canadian teammates can climb the medal podium ...
May 14, 2021
Flames, Canucks keep playing for nothing amid NHL playoff launch
By the time the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks cap their regular seasons, the Washington Capitals and Boston Bruins will be well into the first round of their playoff series. Another bizarre ano...
May 14, 2021
Business, labour groups clash at Senate committee over $15 federal minimum wage
OTTAWA - The head of the country's largest private-sector union says Parliament should raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and possibly put future increases into the hands of an independen...
May 14, 2021
Kenney distances himself from caucus vote to turf dissidents with 'personal agendas'
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is distancing himself from a decision to expel two members from his United Conservative caucus.But he says the decision affirms confidence of the caucus in his ...
May 14, 2021
The unwitting are the target of COVID-19 falsehoods online
Dr. Michelle Rockwell lost a pregnancy in December and shared her heartache with her 30,000 Instagram followers. Weeks later, she received the COVID-19 vaccine and posted about that, too. By February,...
May 14, 2021
Fewer flights land in Canada with COVID-19 since ban on planes from India, Pakistan
OTTAWA - The number of planes landing in Canada carrying passengers with COVID-19 was cut by more than half in the two weeks after the federal government barred incoming flights from India and Pakista...
May 14, 2021
Quebec coroner hears from family of Joyce Echaquan on Day 2 of inquest
MONTREAL - More family members are taking the stand today at a coroner's inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman last year subjected to insults as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montre...
May 14, 2021
Supreme Court addresses issue of consent in restoring sexual-assault convictions
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has restored the convictions of a common-law couple for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl during a camping trip. The girl was accompanied by her mother, stepf...
May 14, 2021
Canadian high-school athletes face major hurdles in efforts to land scholarships
He could be the future of Canadian sprinting, the country's next Andre De Grasse. But Marcus Renford is working in a grocery store just north of Toronto that for more than a month last winter saw new ...
May 14, 2021
US industrial output rose a modest 0.7% amid shortages
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. industrial production increased for a second straight month in April as more factories came online after being shutdown by winter ice storms. Industrial production - which inclu...
May 14, 2021
