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UPDATE: Biggs Rd. bridge reopened after City crew assessment
UPDATE: Nov. 18th, 2:15 p.m. The City of Nanaimo has completed and signed off on the Biggs Rd. bridge, and it is now open. NANAIMO - The region may have escaped many of the more severe impacts of floo...
Nov 18, 2021
Kardashian West helps fly Afghan women soccer players to UK
LONDON (AP) - Members of Afghanistan's women's youth development soccer team arrived in Britain early Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and...
Nov 18, 2021
Kardashian West helps fly Afghan women soccer players to UK
LONDON (AP) - Members of Afghanistan's women's youth development soccer team arrived in Britain early Thursday after being flown from Pakistan with the help of a New York rabbi, a U.K. soccer club and...
Nov 18, 2021
Britain’s Prince Charles in Cairo, first visit since 2006
CAIRO (AP) - Britain's Prince Charles and his wife, Camilla, arrived in Cairo on Thursday for the first time in 15 years, hoping to promote tolerance and cement bilateral ties. The visit is part of th...
Nov 18, 2021
North American leaders to talk vaccine sharing, migration woes at summit
WASHINGTON - Canada and Mexico will redistribute millions of COVID-19 vaccine doses they received from the United States to other Western Hemisphere countries as a part of today's revived Three Amigos...
Nov 18, 2021
Federal help for BC, stranded motorists return to Vancouver: In The News for Nov. 18
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 Nov. 18 ... What we are watching in Canada ......
Nov 18, 2021
Canadian universities, colleges sign charter to address anti-Black racism
A group of universities and colleges from across Canada are signing a charter to fight anti-Black racism in post-secondary institutions. The 22-page document requires those signing it to respect certa...
Nov 18, 2021
Trauma of 16 days in N.S. dry cell endures, though court win a solace: former inmate
HALIFAX - The cramped space, bright lights and watching eyes continue to haunt Lisa Adams. Though the 34-year-old was buoyed by a court decision last week that found unconstitutional the form of solit...
Nov 18, 2021
Number of sites, looming winter, complicate 'unprecedented' B.C. highway repairs
Repairing the British Columbia highways washed out by heavy rains and flooding will be complicated by the scale of the damage, the terrain and the coming winter, building experts say. "It's unpreceden...
Nov 18, 2021
The AP Interview: Ex-Interpol wife takes on China government
LYON, France (AP) - In China, she enjoyed the privileges that flowed from being married to a senior member of the governing elite. Her husband was a top police official in the security apparatus that ...
Nov 18, 2021