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Jury gets case of 2 men charged in Gov. Whitmer plot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - A jury has heard closing arguments and begun deliberations in the second trial of two men charged with conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury in Grand...
Aug 22, 2022
Quebec allowing four people per room in care homes, against coroner's recommendations
MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department is allowing long-term care centres to house up to four residents in the same room - a new directive that runs against recommendations by the coroner. Jean-Charles...
Aug 22, 2022
Fauci, top infectious disease expert, to retire in December
WASHINGTON (AP) - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name - and the subject of partisan attacks - during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he wi...
Aug 22, 2022
U.S. lawmakers, advocates pushing Ottawa to eliminate ArriveCan, open Nexus offices
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers and advocates in the United States are ramping up the pressure on the federal government to ease travel delays between the U.S. and Canada. The Canadian American Business Counci...
Aug 22, 2022
Five questions with Canadian hockey 'golden-goaler' Marie-Philip Poulin
Canadian women's hockey team captain Marie-Philip Poulin is the only hockey player in the world, male or female, to score goals in four straight Olympic hockey finals. The 31-year-old from Beauceville...
Aug 22, 2022
N.S. shooting inquiry: Senior RCMP member learned of killer's replica car in the news
HALIFAX - The former RCMP commanding officer in Nova Scotia has told the inquiry into the April 2020 mass shooting that she first saw the killer's replica police cruiser in a news report before she we...
Aug 22, 2022
Quebec making progress to protect caribou after warnings from federal government
MONTREAL - The governments of Canada and Quebec say they are confident they can reach a deal to protect endangered caribou populations in the province. The two governments said today in a joint news r...
Aug 22, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: Mercy killing may be on a slippery slope toward expediency
IS DOCTOR-ASSISTED SUICIDE becoming too easy? That's a legitimate fear given what's been going on lately.Stories have emerged of patients being offered assisted death as an option to treatment.Kamloop...
Aug 22, 2022
Russia's FSB blames Ukrainian intelligence for car bombing
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's top counterintelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy agencies have organized the killing of the daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologue. Russia's Federal Security S...
Aug 22, 2022
Scholz, Trudeau aim to drum up business as German leader visits Montreal and Toronto
MONTREAL - A busy day lies ahead for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during the first full day of the German leader's three-day visit to Canada. The two leaders will st...
Aug 22, 2022
