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Record demand expected as provincial campsite registration opens
NANAIMO - Records will likely be broken as registration opens for B.C.'s thousands of provincial campsites.Registration opens at 7 a.m. on Monday, March 21 with increased demand expected after two yea...
Mar 21, 2022
State media report crash of Chinese airliner with 133 aboard
BEIJING (AP) - A Chinese airliner with 133 people on board crashed in the southern province of Guangxi on Monday, state media has reported. Broadcaster CCTV said the accident involved a China Eastern ...
Mar 21, 2022
CP derailed and Ukraine rejects Russia's surrender demand: In The News for Mar. 21
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Mar. 21 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Mar 21, 2022
B.C. Supreme Court to hear lawsuit over First Nation's land rights
VANCOUVER - Members of the Nuchatlaht First Nation in British Columbia have travelled to Vancouver to mark the start of a lawsuit that asks the court to recognize the nation's rights and title and put...
Mar 21, 2022
Doctor describes what it's like to provide medical assistance in dying in new book
OTTAWA - After more than 20 years delivering babies into the world, Dr. Stefanie Green decided to specialize in delivering suffering people out of it. She was among the first Canadian physicians to of...
Mar 21, 2022
Nunavut Legal Aid to intervene at Supreme Court of Canada for first time
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut Legal Aid is to have a say at the Supreme Court of Canada for the first time in a case that could affect the way Inuit are sentenced. About 40,000 people, mostly Inuit, live...
Mar 21, 2022
B.C. Supreme Court to hear lawsuit over First Nation's land rights
VANCOUVER - Members of the Nuchatlaht First Nation in British Columbia have travelled to Vancouver to mark the start of a lawsuit that asks the court to recognize the nation's rights and title and put...
Mar 21, 2022
Ottawa under pressure as CP Rail stoppage enters second day as talks continue
OTTAWA - The pressure is on in Ottawa today as a CP Rail work stoppage enters its second day. Industry leaders and politicians have urged Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan to end the labour dispute after...
Mar 21, 2022
Buffalo's Dahlin scores OT winner to end slumping Canucks' homestand on losing note
VANCOUVER - Rasmus Dahlin scored 48 seconds into overtime and the Buffalo Sabres handed the slumping Vancouver Canucks a 3-2 loss on Sunday. Casey Mittelstadt had a goal and an assist and Jeff Skinner...
Mar 20, 2022
Ukraine rejects Russian offer of passage out of Mariupol
LVIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukrainian officials defiantly rejected a Russian demand that their forces in the besieged strategic port city of Mariupol lay down arms Monday and raise white flags in exchange fo...
Mar 20, 2022