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B.C. driver curious about speed of mother's car faces fines: police
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A novice British Columbia driver faces numerous tickets and nine penalty points after police allege he was travelling in excess of 200 kilometres per hour in his mother's car. Polic...
Jan 24, 2022
New space telescope reaches final stop million miles out
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The world's biggest, most powerful space telescope reached its final destination 1 million miles from Earth on Monday, a month after it lifted off on a quest to behold the ...
Jan 24, 2022
B.C. driver curious about speed of mother's car faces fines: police
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - A novice British Columbia driver faces numerous tickets and nine penalty points after police allege he was travelling in excess of 200 kilometres per hour in his mother's car. Polic...
Jan 24, 2022
Ont. back-to-school effort roiled by absences, Que. looks to incentivize vaccination
New data out of Ontario shows many of its schools were hit by high rates of absences when in-person classes resumed last week, and Quebec has begun rolling out the next step in its efforts to boost CO...
Jan 24, 2022
Hope seen once the omicron wave increases global immunity
World health officials are offering hope that the ebbing of the omicron wave could give way to a new, more manageable phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, even as they warn of difficult weeks ahead and the...
Jan 24, 2022
Cooper Gallant looking to become fourth Canadian on Bassmaster Elite Series circuit
He caught his first largemouth bass at age five. Nineteen years later, Cooper Gallant is aiming to join the world's top professional bass circuit. The articulate 24-year-old from Bowmanville, Ont., is...
Jan 24, 2022
Montreal's Chinatown, threatened by development, to be granted heritage status
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is granting heritage status to the core of Montreal's Chinatown district to protect its historic buildings from redevelopment. Culture Minister Nathalie Roy made the a...
Jan 24, 2022
Soldiers say military junta now controls Burkina Faso
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) - More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared Monday on state television that a military junta now controls Burkina Faso after they detained the democratically elected ...
Jan 24, 2022
Police: 6 found dead at Milwaukee home had been shot
MILWAUKEE (AP) - The six people found dead in a Milwaukee home apparently had been shot, police said Monday. The victims had injuries that are suspected to have been caused by gunfire, Milwaukee Polic...
Jan 24, 2022
CP NewsAlert: Calgary man who killed girlfriend found guilty of her toddler's death
CALGARY - A judge has found a Calgary man who admitted to murdering his former girlfriend guilty of killing her daughter as well. Robert Leeming had pleaded guilty to the second-degree murder of Jasmi...
Jan 24, 2022