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Canada must process applications for children's immigration in six months: advocates
Ottawa should establish a standard of six months to reunite newcomers to Canada with their children, as many refugee and immigrant families now wait years, says a national advocacy group.The long wait...
Apr 25, 2021
Montreal politicians debate whether to allow skyscrapers higher than Mount Royal
Montreal's Mount Royal looms both literally and figuratively above its namesake city, with the illuminated cross on its summit visible across much of the island and beyond. That visibility is by desig...
Apr 25, 2021
Official: China's moon probe will carry French, Russian gear
BEIJING - China will launch its next robot lunar lander in 2024, and it will carry equipment from France, Sweden, Russia and Italy, the official news agency reported. Plans call for Chang'e 6 to land ...
Apr 25, 2021
35 years on, Chornobyl warns and inspires
KYIV, Ukraine - The vast and empty Chornobyl Exclusion Zone around the site of the world's worst nuclear accident is a baleful monument to human mistakes. Yet 35 years after a power plant reactor expl...
Apr 25, 2021
Rights commission: 58 killed in Baghdad fire in virus ward
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Independent High Commission for Human Rights reported Sunday that 58 people died in a catastrophic fire that broke out in a Baghdad hospital. Among the dead were 28 patients on ventil...
Apr 25, 2021
India's crematoriums overwhelmed as virus 'swallows people'
NEW DELHI - India's crematoriums and burial grounds are being overwhelmed by the devastating new surge of infections tearing through the populous country with terrifying speed, depleting the supply of...
Apr 25, 2021
Albanians vote in election after a bitter political fight
TIRANA, Albania - Albanians are voting in parliamentary elections on Sunday amid the virus pandemic and a bitter rivalry between the two largest political parties. Some 3.6 million eligible voters, in...
Apr 25, 2021
At least 6 killed in fiery van crash on Georgia interstate
SUWANEE, Ga. - At least six people died and several others were hurt in an interstate crash in Georgia that left a passenger van engulfed in flames and rolled on its side, police said. Passersby stopp...
Apr 25, 2021
Holtby solid as Vancouver Canucks edge Ottawa Senators 4-2
VANCOUVER - Tanner Pearson scored the game winner Saturday as the Vancouver Canucks edged the Ottawa Senators 4-2. Nate Schmidt, Brock Boeser and J.T. Miller also scored for the Canucks (19-19-3), and...
Apr 24, 2021
Ottawa's Rachel Homan earns berth in second Grand Slam final in a row
CALGARY - Canada's Rachel Homan is one win away from sweeping the condensed Grand Slam of Curling schedule this year. The Ottawa skip advanced to the final of the Princess Auto Players' Championship w...
Apr 24, 2021