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Extra income support for hard-hit workers may not stick around post-pandemic, PM says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the more generous benefits being provided to out-of-work Canadians during the pandemic shouldn't be seen as permanent changes to the social safety net. Mill...
Nov 11, 2020
Interior Health alerts residents COVID surge 'becoming a concern'
KELOWNA, B.C. - British Columbia's Interior Health authority has issued a COVID-19 alert to its residents as cases rise in the region. The authority says in a statement that it's concerned by the upwa...
Nov 11, 2020
Trudeau says he expects trade deal with UK can be done before 2021
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he expects Canada can make a new trade deal with the U.K. before the calendar hit 2021. Speaking at a digital event hosted by the Financial Times, Trudeau s...
Nov 11, 2020
Study finds climate-changing methane emissions from oilpatch twice as high as thought
A newly published study concludes that emissions of a potent greenhouse gas from oil and gas production are twice as high as previously thought. The research by Environment Canada scientists says prev...
Nov 11, 2020
Assisted-dying bill sparks ferocious debate among Canadians with disabilities
OTTAWA - The determination of two Quebecers with disabilities to decide when their suffering had become intolerable persuaded the federal government to rewrite the law on medical assistance in dying. ...
Nov 11, 2020
Republican Dan Sullivan re-elected in Alaska Senate race
JUNEAU, Alaska - Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan has won re-election in Alaska, defeating independent Al Gross in a race that attracted outside attention with control of the Senate at stake. The rac...
Nov 11, 2020
Military's aid in COVID-19 fight noted as pandemic restricts Remembrance Day events
OTTAWA - A modest crowd gathered in downtown Ottawa to witness a solemn Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial, instead of the tens of thousands who normally show up. Many of the wreath...
Nov 11, 2020
UN agency: Iran uranium stockpile still violates atomic deal
VIENNA - Iran continues to increase its stockpile of low-enriched uranium far beyond the limits set in a landmark nuclear deal with world powers and to enrich it to a greater purity than permitted, th...
Nov 11, 2020
Canada's 'caretaker convention' offers blueprint for containing an unbridled POTUS
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Right now, the United States could use some long-established guiding principles for how disgruntled leaders should behave after losing an election, and Canada might have just the th...
Nov 11, 2020
Ontario sets another new COVID-19 case record as hospitalizations jump in Quebec
COVID-19 case numbers are continuing to rise in Canada's two most populous provinces as Ontario set another new high for daily infections. Both Quebec and Ontario reported about 1,400 new cases, inclu...
Nov 11, 2020