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Jackson faces pointed questions at Senate hearing
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson faced senators' questions for the first time Tuesday as Democrats push to quickly confirm the only Black female justice in the court's 233...
Mar 22, 2022
Navalny sentenced to 9 years in prison by Russian court
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was convicted of fraud and contempt of court and sentenced to nine years in a maximum security prison on Tuesday. A judge also ruled that Navalny...
Mar 22, 2022
Workers back on the job at noon after CP Rail and union agree to final arbitration
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. and the union representing 3,000 conductors, engineers and train and yard workers say they have agreed to final and binding arbitration to end a work stoppage. Workers wi...
Mar 22, 2022
ROTHENBURGER: The drip, drip, drip erosion of accountability in government
ACCOUNTABILITY IS a precious cornerstone of our democracy, yet it can be slowly eroded if we aren't careful.Here are a few examples. The federal government's Bill C-11, a revamped version of Bill C-10...
Mar 22, 2022
No shortage of operators looking to get into full Ontario sports-betting market
TORONTO - Greg Warren is seeing no shortage of interest in the Ontario sports-betting market. Single-game sports betting has been legal in Canada since last summer but the industry won't open up fully...
Mar 22, 2022
'No-tick' at women's world championship among changes considered for curling
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. - Not all curlers at the women's world championship are thrilled about experimenting with a new rule. Other changes to the game to make it more viewer-friendly are afoot. The World...
Mar 22, 2022
CP Rail work stoppage to end, possible Liberal-NDP deal : In The News for March 22
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 March 22 ... What we are watching in Canada .....
Mar 22, 2022
Senator proposes bill to ban captivity of certain animals, protect others
A senator is set to introduce a bill today supported by primatologist Jane Goodall that would phase out elephants in captivity, put a stop to big cats at roadside zoos and give some animals legal stan...
Mar 22, 2022
Quebec finance minister to table budget today that is expected to address inflation
Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard will table a budget today for the 2022-23 fiscal year, just over six months ahead of the provincial election. The budget comes as the Quebec government is facing pr...
Mar 22, 2022
Civilians fleeing Mariupol describe street-to-street battles
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - Civilians making the dangerous escape from Ukraine's embattled southern port hub of Mariupol described fleeing through street-to-street gun battles and past unburied corpses as a ...
Mar 21, 2022
