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Hot spell hikes risks of flooding, avalanches and fire across British Columbia
VANCOUVER - As British Columbia heads into its first warm spell of the year, forecasters are warning the heat could raise avalanche and flood risks, while the danger of wildfires has already nudged up...
Apr 27, 2023
Hot spell hikes risks of flooding, avalanches and fire across British Columbia
VANCOUVER - As British Columbia heads into its first warm spell of the year, forecasters are warning the heat could raise avalanche and flood risks, while the danger of wildfires has already nudged up...
Apr 27, 2023
Police say director of Montreal seniors home billed for services that weren't given
MONTREAL - The head of a private seniors residence in Montreal is facing fraud charges after he allegedly billed a regional health authority for resident services that were never provided. Quebec anti...
Apr 27, 2023
Carolyn Bryant Donham, at center of Emmett Till death, dies
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - The white woman who accused Black teenager Emmett Till of making improper advances before he was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 has died in hospice care in Louisiana, a coroner's...
Apr 27, 2023
Canada's Rebecca Marino loses to Belgium's Elise Mertens at Madrid Open
MADRID - Canada's Rebecca Marino is out of the Madrid Open in the Round of 64 after losing Thursday in straight sets to Elise Mertens of Belgium, 6-3, 6-1. Marino, of Vancouver, had five double faults...
Apr 27, 2023
Federal public service strike enters ninth day, no sign of back-to-work legislation
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is showing no hints it will end the strike of its largest public sector union by legislating 155,000 federal civil servants back to work. The workers with the Public Se...
Apr 27, 2023
The Latest on what RCMP say happened in the mass killing on James Smith Cree Nation
MELFORT, Sask. - The RCMP are releasing details on a stabbing rampage last year in Saskatchewan. Eleven people were killed and 18 were injured on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby village ...
Apr 27, 2023
A new era in Gatineau: Red-hot Olympiques on impressive run heading into QMJHL semis
It was two games into a winning streak in January when Gatineau Olympiques coach and general manager Louis Robitaille leaned in to kiss his daughter, only to have her grumble about his prickly stubble...
Apr 27, 2023
First Canadian evacuation flight from Sudan has departed: Anand
OTTAWA - The first Canadian evacuation flight from Sudan took off Thursday and additional evacuations are planned over the next few days, Defence Minister Anita Anand confirmed as the scramble to help...
Apr 27, 2023
US to open foreign centers in bid to stop migration surge
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Biden administration will open migration centers in Guatemala and Colombia for asylum seekers heading to the U.S.-Mexico border, in a bid to slow what's expected to be a surge of...
Apr 27, 2023
