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Japan confirms 12 Canadians on cruise ship infected with novel coronavirus
OTTAWA - Japanese authorities might soon allow people quarantined aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship near Tokyo, where 12 Canadians have contracted the novel coronavirus, to disembark and fi...
Feb 13, 2020
St. John returns to Saskatchewan
The Saskatchewan Roughriders brought back a familiar face on Day 2 of CFL free agency.Offensive lineman Josiah St. John, who spent three seasons with the Roughriders before signing with the Toronto Ar...
Feb 13, 2020 (File photo/CJME News Staff)
Trudeau to take UN Security Council pitch to Caribbean next week
OTTAWA - Next stop: the Caribbean. That is where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be heading next week as he continues making his pitch for why Canada should have a seat on the United Nations Securi...
Feb 13, 2020
As Africa trip nears end, Trudeau visits farm in Senegal helped by Canadian aid
KERI, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is visiting a farm in Senegal's "California" today, seeing first-hand the benefits of some Canadian aid funding. The Niayes region is feeling the effects ...
Feb 13, 2020
Elimimian has high expectations for 2020 Roughriders
A game in the middle of the 2019 CFL season helped convince Solomon Elimimian to sign a contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders for the 2020 campaign."The Labour Day Classic was one of th...
Feb 13, 2020 Solomon Elimimian (10) has signed a contract extension with the Saskatchewan Roughriders. (Britton Gray/980 CJME)
Further measures coming to protect endangered right whales, minister says
HALIFAX - Further measures are coming to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale in Canadian waters, federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan told a meeting on fishing gear innovation Tu...
Feb 13, 2020
Trudeau in Senegal for final African stop of UN Security Council campaigning
DAKAR, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Senegal late Tuesday for an official visit that will test his commitment to gender equality with one of Canada's closest francophone...
Feb 13, 2020
TSB finds defect in beacon on helicopter that crashed in Quebec, killing two
MONTREAL - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is suggesting periodic inspections of emergency locator transmitters after finding a defect in the one aboard a helicopter that crashed in Que...
Feb 13, 2020
Federal NDP seeks provincial support for national pharmacare plan
OTTAWA - The New Democrats are asking the provinces to support their promised universal pharmacare legislation, hoping to win premiers over by calling on Ottawa to increase federal health tr...
Feb 13, 2020
McLaren Racing headlines Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame induction
TORONTO - Racing legend Johnny Rutherford believes it was only a matter of time before McLaren Racing would be honoured by the Canadian Motorsport Hall of Fame. Since coming to life in 1966,...
Feb 13, 2020