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Addressing addiction: A look at what parties are promising for the federal election
CALGARY - Most of Canada's main federal parties have voiced support during the election campaign for removing criminal penalties for simple drug possession and offering safer alternatives to street-le...
Sep 10, 2021
Liberals face loss of progressive votes in bid for Vancouver-Granville, expert says
VANCOUVER - Jody Wilson-Raybould has one piece of advice to give her political successor in the Vancouver Granville riding: follow your own path, and don't reward their political party with blind loya...
Sep 10, 2021
Former B.C. lottery director says he's 'whistleblower' on money laundering at casinos
VANCOUVER - A former director of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation's anti-money laundering office says he is the "whistleblower" that likely prompted the public inquiry examining how hundreds o...
Sep 10, 2021
Afghanistan's first female Olympian urges Canada to speed asylum process for refugees
VANCOUVER - Shortly after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Friba Rezayee's phone started lighting up with messages from women and girls pleading for help. Rezayee, who made history as one of Afghanist...
Sep 10, 2021
Afghanistan's first female Olympian urges Canada to speed asylum process for refugees
VANCOUVER - Shortly after Afghanistan fell to the Taliban, Friba Rezayee's phone started lighting up with messages from women and girls pleading for help. Rezayee, who made history as one of Afghanist...
Sep 10, 2021
Pope Francis to visit impoverished Roma quarter in Slovakia
KOSICE, Slovakia (AP) - Pope Francis is paying a visit next week to a neighborhood in Slovakia most Slovaks would not even think about going, which until recently even the police would avoid after dar...
Sep 09, 2021
Former B.C. lottery director says he's 'whistleblower' on money laundering at casinos
VANCOUVER - A former director of the British Columbia Lottery Corporation's anti-money laundering office says he is the "whistleblower" that likely prompted the public inquiry examining how hundreds o...
Sep 09, 2021
Jays beat Yanks for 8th straight, 1/2 game back in wild card
NEW YORK (AP) - Bo Bichette thumped a leadoff homer in the first inning and singled in the tiebreaking run in the seventh, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. hit his 42nd homer, and the Toronto Blue Jays held off ...
Sep 09, 2021
Hong Kong Tiananmen vigil leaders charged with subversion
HONG KONG (AP) - Hong Kong police charged the group that organizes the city's annual Tiananmen candlelight vigil and three of its leaders with subversion under the national security law, amid an ongoi...
Sep 09, 2021
Biden calls Xi as U.S.-China relationship grows more fraught
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Joe Biden spoke with China's Xi Jinping on Thursday amid growing frustration on the American side that high-level engagement between the two leaders' top advisers has been ...
Sep 09, 2021
