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Former spy agency director David Vigneault joins U.S. strategic intelligence firm
OTTAWA - The outgoing head of Canada's spy agency is joining an American strategic intelligence firm that is waging war against intellectual property theft. Strider Technologies says in a press releas...
Aug 07, 2024

Ontario man charged after threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in online video
Another person has been arrested after making threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau online. Police say a man made violent threats against Trudeau, the police and security personnel who might a...
Aug 07, 2024

Ultrafine particles linked to 1,100 deaths per year in Montreal, Toronto: study
MONTREAL - Researchers at Montreal's McGill University have found that ultrafine particles from vehicles and industry are linked to the deaths of an estimated 1,100 people per year in Canada's two big...
Aug 07, 2024

Feds fund health study for Indigenous communities downstream of oilsands
OTTAWA - More than three decades after Indigenous leaders in northern Alberta began asking for funding to better understand if pollution from the oilsands was making their people sick, the federal gov...
Aug 07, 2024

Is this where the Riders fall apart?
"The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the position of Pattison Media and this site."The floundering of the Saskatchewan Roughriders a...
Aug 07, 2024

Boeing will spend $61M in B.C. as part of Canada's military planes contract
RICHMOND, B.C. - Boeing Canada plans to invest $61 million in British Columbia for an aerospace manufacturing training facility as well as research and development. The announcement is the latest from...
Aug 07, 2024

Canadian featherweight Kyle Nelson gets new opponent for UFC Fight Night card
American Steve (Mean Machine) Garcia has replaced the injured Calvin (The Boston Finisher) Kattar as the opponent for Canadian featherweight Kyle (The Monster) Nelson on a Sept. 7 UFC Fight Night card...
Aug 07, 2024

Ex-adviser with the Coalition Avenir Québec pleads not guilty to electoral fraud
QUBEC - A former Coalition Avenir Qubec political adviser has been charged with electoral fraud by the province's elections authority. lections Qubec says tienne Boulrice helped or incited someone to ...
Aug 07, 2024

Canada's Haumana-Parades, Wilkerson a win away from women's beach volleyball medal
PARIS - Melissa Humana-Paredes and Brandie Wilkerson were staring down an early exit from the Paris Games. Now they are one win away from delivering Canada's first-ever medal in women's beach volleyba...
Aug 07, 2024

Yemen official says 30 people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding
SANAA, Yemen (AP) - Thirty people have been killed and hundreds displaced in flooding in Yemen's southern city of Hodeidah following several days of heavy rains, the governor said Wednesday. Hodeidah ...
Aug 07, 2024