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Nunavut senator quits Conservative caucus over support for Ottawa protests
Nunavut's senator says he has left the Conservative caucus over its support for protests in Ottawa against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Dennis Patterson told The Canadian Press...
Feb 04, 2022

Davies, Sinclair among five Canadians up for CONCACAF Player of the Year Award
Canadians Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David, Jessie Fleming, Stephanie Labbe and Christine Sinclair are up for CONCACAF Player of the Year. The men's and women's winners will be determined in voting by ...
Feb 04, 2022

Arrows start 2022 MLR season with well-travelled coach Peter Smith at the helm
TORONTO - While just 32, Toronto Arrows head coach Peter Smith has a few stories to tell. A fly half, the Australian played rugby professionally in Wales (Ospreys) and Japan (Coca-Cola West Red Spark ...
Feb 04, 2022

N.S. woman says sex assault charge shouldn't stall probe of police conduct
HALIFAX - A Halifax woman who alleges investigators mishandled her sexual assault case says a charge laid this week shouldn't delay probes into police conduct. Carrie Low said in an interview Friday s...
Feb 04, 2022

Lower Canadian dollar results in skyrocketing gas prices
Saskatchewan residents should get used to paying more when they need to fill up their gas tanks.Gas prices shot up by 10 cents per litre around the province Friday to $1.48 per litre in both Saskatoon...
Feb 04, 2022

Pence says Trump wrong in saying VP could overturn election
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was...
Feb 04, 2022

Ottawa files court brief supporting Enbridge Inc. in Line 5 dispute with Michigan
WASHINGTON - The federal government is once again urging a Michigan judge to keep Line 5 operating while it works with the United States on negotiating an end to the impasse over the controversial cro...
Feb 04, 2022

How the truckers' convoy might show where the Conservative party is headed next
OTTAWA - A convoy of protesters against COVID-19 restrictions that has settled into downtown Ottawa has provided a test for the Conservative party as it rolls into a leadership race. "I spent the week...
Feb 04, 2022

Active cases drop below 10,000 for first time in since Jan. 14
After three weeks of active case numbers exceeding 10,000 cases, Saskatchewan's total number of active cases has dropped to 9,981 for the first time in the last three weeks. This is a drop of 290 case...
Feb 04, 2022

Tennessee gov, GOP push more scrutiny of school libraries
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Less than a week after a local Tennessee school board attracted national attention for banning a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Gov. Bill Lee went pu...
Feb 04, 2022