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Man who flew to Toronto from China is Canada's first coronavirus case
TORONTO - A man in his 50s who travelled to Toronto from China earlier this week has become the first Canadian case of the new coronavirus, health officials said Saturday as they urged ...
Jan 27, 2020
Unifor, FCL representatives to meet in Saskatoon
The sides in the labour dispute at the Co-op refinery were to meet face to face Monday.During a rally outside the refinery, Scott Doherty - the executive assistant to Unifor national president Jerry D...
Jan 27, 2020 Scott Doherty, executive assistant to Unifor national president Jerry Dias, announces representatives of the union are to meet with Federated Co-operatives Limited CEO Scott Banda on Jan. 27, 2020. (Adriana Christianson/980 CJME)
2 arrested in SC bar shooting that killed 2 and wounded 4
HARTSVILLE, S.C. - Police have arrested two suspects in a weekend shooting that killed two people and wounded several others at a South Carolina bar, authorities said. The suspects were taken into cus...
Jan 27, 2020
Brazil downpour displaces 30,000, bracing for more rain
RIO DE JANEIRO - Over 30,000 people have been displaced by heavy rains in southeast Brazil that also killed 54 people and left 18 missing. The storms in recent days caused floods and landslides, subme...
Jan 27, 2020
China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billions
Business around the world that have grown increasingly reliant on big-spending tourists from China are taking a heavy hit, with tens of millions of Chinese residents restricted from leaving their coun...
Jan 27, 2020
Lakers' next game postponed after Kobe Bryant's death
LOS ANGELES - The NBA has postponed the Los Angeles Lakers' next game against the Clippers on Tuesday night after the deaths of retired superstar Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others in a helico...
Jan 27, 2020
At Sundance, Clinton warns of voter suppression in election
PARK CITY, Utah - Since losing the 2016 election to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has released a memoir about that defeat, launched a political action committee and penned another book about "gutsy wo...
Jan 27, 2020
RCMP intelligence official faces new charges in secrecy case
OTTAWA - The federal prosecution service says a senior RCMP official faces three new charges for alleged secrecy breaches. Cameron Jay Ortis, director general of the RCMP's National Intellig...
Jan 27, 2020
Dominic LeBlanc back in Commons for first time since cancer diagnosis
OTTAWA - Veteran Liberal MP and cabinet minister Dominic LeBlanc took his front-bench seat in the House of Commons on Monday for the first time since he was diagnosed with a form of blood ca...
Jan 27, 2020
Leaders pay tribute, MPs call for justice for Canadians who died on Flight PS752
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has paid tribute in the House of Commons to those who died on the Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet shot down outside Tehran earlier this month, as MP...
Jan 27, 2020