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November home sales up nearly 12% from last year: Vancouver real estate board
VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says November home sales increased by almost 12 per cent from last year as demand continued to outpace supply. The B.C. board says sales for the ...
Dec 2, 2021
Canada's Marie-Michele Gagnon hitting her stride in women's downhill
Marie-Michele Gagnon was the lone Canadian alpine skier to stand on a World Cup podium last winter. The 32-year-old's transition from slalom and giant slalom to downhill was interrupted by a lost seas...
Dec 2, 2021
Governor General's office investigating internal network breach
OTTAWA - The Office of the Secretary to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon confirms says its internal network was breached through unauthorized access. In a statement, the office says it is working with experts and...
Dec 2, 2021
Supreme Court of Canada agrees to hear appeal in notorious 'Surrey Six' case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear arguments about the fairness of B.C. proceedings that led to guilty findings for two men in the first-degree murders of six people. Earlier this...
Dec 2, 2021
Eriksen uses Danish training field as part of rehabilitation
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) - Christian Eriksen has resumed training in Denmark as part of his rehabilitation after suffering a cardiac arrest at the European Championship. The 29-year-old midfielder is ...
Dec 2, 2021
US will resume policy for asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico to next week reinstate a Trump-era border policy that forces asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigra...
Dec 2, 2021
Murder charge for Ohio deputy in Casey Goodson Jr. shooting
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio sheriff's deputy who fatally shot Casey Goodson Jr. in the back five times was charged Thursday with murder in an encounter that is still largely unexplained and involve...
Dec 2, 2021
Open more overdose prevention sites in urban and rural areas across Canada: study
VANCOUVER - Researchers in British Columbia say the expansion of overdose prevention sites in Vancouver led to immediate behaviour changes among some drug users as they entered addiction treatment and...
Dec 2, 2021
U.S. to require all inbound foreign air passengers to get COVID test the day before
WASHINGTON - By early next week, Canadians and all other foreign visitors who travel to the United States by air will need to get a COVID-19 test no later than the day before their departure. U.S. Pre...
Dec 2, 2021
ROTHENBURGER: Employers, not government, should pay for new sick-days rule
WHO AMONG US has ever gone to work when we've been feeling like crap? And, who among us has been on the job when a co-worker shows up sniffling and hacking and coughing and spreading germs all over th...
Dec 2, 2021
