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Canadian skiing star Valerie Grenier needs multiple surgeries after crash in super-G
INNSBRUCK, Austria - Canadian skiing star Valerie Grenier says she'll need multiple surgeries after a serious crash during a World Cup super-G race Sunday in Cortina D'ampezzo, Italy. While appearing ...
Jan 30, 2024
After pausing funding to UNRWA, Canada will send another $40M in aid for Gaza
OTTAWA - Canada is sending another $40 million in aid to organizations that are helping Palestinians in Gaza after pausing funding to the UN's relief agency in the region. The funding will go to group...
Jan 30, 2024
Israeli undercover forces dressed as women and medics storm West Bank hospital, killing 3 militants
JENIN, West Bank (AP) - Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medical workers stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that...
Jan 30, 2024
Provinces ask Ottawa for indefinite pause on expansion of assisted dying eligibility
OTTAWA - Most of the provinces and territories have signed a letter asking the federal government to indefinitely pause its plans to expand eligibility for assisted dying. A parliamentary committee re...
Jan 30, 2024
Following slow ramp-up, social housing plans begin taking shape in Nanaimo
NANAIMO - Slow, yet steady progress is being made to build hundreds of badly needed supportive and affordable housing units in Nanaimo.In the summer of 2020 a Memorandum of Understanding between the C...
Jan 30, 2024
Russian figure skaters to get Olympic team bronze medals ahead of Canada despite Valieva DQ
GENEVA (AP) - Despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case, the Russia figure skating team was set to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the sport's governing body sa...
Jan 30, 2024
Russian figure skaters to get Olympic team bronze medals ahead of Canada despite Valieva DQ
GENEVA (AP) - Despite the disqualification of Kamila Valieva in a doping case, the Russia figure skating team was set to get bronze medals from the 2022 Beijing Olympics, the sport's governing body sa...
Jan 30, 2024
In the news for today: Digital health records coming and Pharmacare policy concerns
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Make all health records digital by 2028: report The Public Policy Forum says Ca...
Jan 30, 2024
Neskantaga First Nation works to uplift community since suicide crisis 10 years ago
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. - Small, white crosses dot a graveyard just outside Neskantaga First Nation in northern Ontario. Some graves are marked with white picket fences, flowers have been placed...
Jan 30, 2024
Seven years after triple murder-suicide, Nova Scotia inquiry to release final report
HALIFAX - Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond calmly bought a semi-automatic rifle on Jan. 3, 2017, and later that day fatally shot his mother, wife and 10-year-old daughter before killing himself ...
Jan 30, 2024