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China raises defense budget 7.2% as it pushes for global heft and regional tensions continue
BEIJING (AP) - China on Tuesday announced a 7.2% increase in its defense budget, which is already the world's second-highest behind the United States at 1.6 trillion yuan ($222 billion), roughly mirro...
Mar 4, 2024
Canadian Olympic committees call on federal government for $104M to 'avoid crisis'
OTTAWA - With the Paris 2024 Olympics and Paralympic Games set for this summer, the Canadian Olympic Committee and Canadian Paralympic Committee are requesting an additional $104-million in funding fr...
Mar 4, 2024
Transit bus, pickup collide in south Nanaimo intersection
NANAIMO - Traffic was snarled following a collision between a pickup truck and a transit bus.Emergency crews were called to the Nanaimo Parkway, near the Cedar Rd./Trans Canada Hwy. junction around 3:...
Mar 4, 2024
Longtime B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman won't seek re-election in fall vote
VICTORIA - British Columbia's longtime Environment Minister George Heyman says he's decided not to run in this fall's provincial election. Seventy-four-year-old Heyman says in a social media post that...
Mar 4, 2024
Four provinces confirm measles cases with Montreal deemed Canada's epicentre
Seventeen cases of measles have been confirmed in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia - more than half of those in the Montreal area, while one Ontario case has been linked to a high sc...
Mar 4, 2024
Raptors sign centre Kelly Olynyk to multi-year contract extension
TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have signed centre Kelly Olynyk to a multi-year contract extension, the NBA club announced Monday. Details of the extension were not announced, but ESPN reported it was a...
Mar 4, 2024
Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily halted a new Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants who enter the country illegally and set up another legal showdown over th...
Mar 4, 2024
Luka Magnotta now living in medium-security prison, says Correctional Service Canada
OTTAWA - Correctional Service Canada confirms Luka Magnotta, who made international headlines for the brutal killing of an international student, resides in a medium-security prison. A jury found Magn...
Mar 4, 2024
Guilbeault calls Saskatchewan premier 'immoral' for breaking carbon-price law
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Ottawa has to take action against Saskatchewan for breaking the federal carbon-pricing law. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said last week his provi...
Mar 4, 2024
Toronto Raptors surprise girls basketball tournament at MLSE Launchpad
TORONTO - Schools from across the Greater Toronto Area had sent their girls' basketball teams to MLSE Launchpad for a mini-tournament and then some fun exercises and drills. And a special surprise vis...
Mar 4, 2024