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B.C. gives $2M to Japanese Canadian seniors as step toward righting internment wrongs
VICTORIA - British Columbia is offering tangible recognition of the historical wrongs caused by the province when it helped to intern thousands of Japanese Canadians during the Second World War. The p...
May 05, 2021
'Like a flash fire:' Rabbit owners warned about outbreak of deadly disease in Alberta
CALGARY - Janice Romick could see it coming. The rabbit breeder for 40 years in Cold Lake, Alta., says she saw the writing on the wall before a deadly rabbit virus appeared last month in the southern ...
May 05, 2021
Regis Labeaume, longtime Quebec City mayor, won't seek re-election in November
Quebec City's longtime mayor says he's quitting politics and won't seek re-election in November. Regis Labeaume made the announcement today at a news conference in the provincial capital. Labeaume, 65...
May 05, 2021
Right-wing think-tank ordered to pay man hurt at rally $2.4M
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal judge has ordered a right-wing think-tank led by white nationalist Richard Spencer to pay $2.4 million to an Ohio man severely injured during a white supremacist and neo-Naz...
May 05, 2021
US approves waiving intellectual property rules on vaccines
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration is throwing its support behind efforts to waive intellectual property protections for COVID-19 vaccines in an effort to speed the end of the pandemic. United Stat...
May 05, 2021
Ticketing of Black man for jaywalking was racial discrimination: human rights board
HALIFAX - A human rights board of inquiry has found that a Black man was discriminated against by Halifax police when he was ticketed for jaywalking. Board chairman Benjamin Perryman released a decisi...
May 05, 2021
Amid US pullout, Taliban issue threat to Afghan journalists
KABUL - The Taliban on Wednesday issued a threat to Afghan journalists they accuse of siding with Afghanistan's intelligence agency in Kabul, a warning that came amid a U.S. troop pullout and rising f...
May 05, 2021
To filmmaker Gibney, opioid crisis is 'Crime of the Century'
NEW YORK - Not unexpectedly given the subject matter, HBO's two-part documentary "The Crime of the Century" opens with a body bag. It contained a man from San Diego - his remains carried away in the p...
May 05, 2021
'Anxious to see you:' JFK letters to Swedish lover auctioned
BOSTON - Love letters that John F. Kennedy wrote to a Swedish paramour a few years after he married Jacqueline Bouvier are going up for auction. "You are wonderful and I miss you," Kennedy scribbled a...
May 05, 2021
Getting up Close with Glenn and Ted Nash, new duo in jazz
NEW YORK - Glenn Close recently made music-related headlines for her playful performance of "Da Butt" at the Academy Awards, but the revered actor has some real music news: she's releasing an album wi...
May 05, 2021