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Community support grows as Give A Little Life Day Radiothon continues
Donations have been pouring in for the Victoria Hospital Foundation at the start of this year's Give a Little Life Day Radiothon.As of 5 p.m. Friday afternoon, the total raised is $204,704.28 with a g...
Dec 02, 2022
'Major flaw': Judge blames police security plan in 2012 Quebec election shooting
MONTREAL - A Superior Court judge says the police security plan for Quebec's 2012 election night had a "major flaw" that permitted a gunman to carry out a deadly attack. Justice Philippe Blanger has a...
Dec 02, 2022
Ottawa trailing in protection of Indigenous women and girls: federal minister
OTTAWA - The minister for Crown-Indigenous relations says the federal government is trailing in its responsibility to protect Indigenous women and girls, despite allocating money toward the issue. Mar...
Dec 02, 2022
Newly sanctioned Iranians include Toronto gym denizen
OTTAWA - Canada is sanctioning more Iranian officials, including a senior military official spotted earlier this year at a Toronto-area gym. Morteza Talaei, Tehran's former police chief and a former g...
Dec 02, 2022
‘It’s been quite the ride’: Jon Ryan retiring from football
After an 18-year professional football career, Jon Ryan is hanging up the cleats."It's been quite the ride. I look back now and it all seems like a dream. I still can't quite believe it all happened t...
Dec 02, 2022
Government to un-redact text messages, notes of PMO staff at Emergencies Act inquiry
OTTAWA - Lawyers for "Freedom Convoy" organizers have won their bid to get access to unredacted versions of 20 documents at the Public Order Emergency Act. Lawyer Brendan Miller applied to have the pu...
Dec 02, 2022
Canada Soccer to use lessons from Qatar to refine support at future tournaments
DOHA, Qatar - With bumper TV audiences at home, the World Cup has focused attention on the Canadian men just as the Tokyo Olympics served as a platform for the women to shine. Qatar has also allowed C...
Dec 02, 2022
Canada has lessons to learn after glass half-full, half-empty return to World Cup
DOHA, Qatar - The Canadian men leave the World Cup with "our heads up," according to coach John Herdman. They also exit the world stage without a win, at the bottom of Group F and the second team to b...
Dec 02, 2022
Hockey Canada says over 900 cases of on-ice discrimination last season
Hockey Canada says there were more than 900 documented or alleged incidents of on-ice discrimination - verbal taunts, insults and intimidation - across all levels and age groups during the 2021-22 sea...
Dec 02, 2022
Four years after Meng Wanzhou's arrest, U.S. moves to drop remaining indictment
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a New York judge to dismiss the remaining indictment against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Four years to the day since the Chinese tech scion was...
Dec 02, 2022