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ROTHENBURGER: Allowing Russian flag at TRU’s International Days an insult to Ukraine
THERE'S AN ARGUMENT to be made for flying the Russian flag at public events in this country but it's not a good one.Thompson Rivers University allowed that flag to be displayed during its annual Inter...
Mar 16, 2023
Yellen to tell Congress US banking system 'remains sound'
WASHINGTON (AP) - A week after the second-largest bank collapse in U.S. history, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is set to tell the Senate Finance Committee that the nation's banking system "remains s...
Mar 16, 2023
Pentagon shows footage of aircraft dumping fuel on US drone
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - The Pentagon has released footage of what it says is a Russian aircraft conducting an unsafe intercept of a U.S. Air Force surveillance drone in international airspace over the Bl...
Mar 16, 2023
Legault to visit Quebec town reeling from vehicle attack : In The News for Mar. 16
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 Mar. 16 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Mar 16, 2023
Temporary closure of Iqaluit centre highlights need to address food insecurity
IQALUIT, Nunavut - The executive director of a Nunavut food charity says there's a need to address the root causes of food insecurity after 500 people in the territorial capital went without a daily m...
Mar 16, 2023
Some federal public servants get remote-work extension as others face deadline
OTTAWA - Some federal government workers will be able to continue remote work for another year, as most face a March 31 deadline to return to the office at least two days a week. A spokesperson for Tr...
Mar 16, 2023
Legault, party leaders to visit Quebec town reeling after pedestrians killed by truck
AMQUI, Que. - Quebec Premier Franois Legault will today visit the eastern Quebec town where a pickup truck plowed into groups of pedestrians, killing two. Legault will be joined by opposition leaders ...
Mar 16, 2023
'Worse than an animal': Mother enraged as killer claims Amanda Zhao might be alive
In 2002, Yang Baoying flew from China to Vancouver to identify her daughter Amanda Zhao's body. The 21-year-old English student's remains had been found stuffed in a suitcase in Mission, B.C., and Yan...
Mar 16, 2023
The rise and fall of Canada's domestic PPE market
Most Canadian businesses that answered federal and provincial calls during the pandemic to build up a domestic sector for personal protective equipment have collapsed. The association that represents ...
Mar 16, 2023
Canada's Auger-Aliassime, Shapovalov ousted in men's doubles quarters at Indian Wells
INDIAN WELLS, Calif. - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov fell 6-4, 7-5 in the men's doubles quarterfinals to Matthew Ebden and Rohan Bopanna at the BNP Paribas Open on Wednesday. The...
Mar 15, 2023
