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Black franchise owner sues McDonald's, cites persistent bias
CLEVELAND - The Black owner of 14 McDonald's franchises says the company has shown more favourable treatment to white owners and denied him the opportunity to buy restaurants in more affluent communit...
Feb 16, 2021

Riot lawsuit just part of Trump's post-impeachment problems
NEW YORK - Acquitted by the Senate of inciting last month's U.S. Capitol insurrection, former President Donald Trump faces more fallout from the unrest, including a lawsuit from a congressman Tuesday....
Feb 16, 2021

Biden heads to Wisconsin to rally support for virus relief
WASHINGTON - Leaving Donald Trump and his impeachment in the rearview mirror, Joe Biden is embarking on his first official trip as president to refocus Congress on coronavirus relief and to cement pub...
Feb 16, 2021

Some dinosaur migration was delayed by climate, study shows
Plant-eating dinosaurs probably arrived in the Northern Hemisphere millions of years after their meat-eating cousins, a delay likely caused by climate change, a new study found. A new way of calculati...
Feb 16, 2021

France passes anti-radicalism bill that worries Muslims
PARIS - Lawmakers in the French parliament's lower house on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a bill that would strengthen oversight of mosques, schools and sports clubs to safeguard France from radical...
Feb 16, 2021

Delivering COVID-19 vaccine to B.C. First Nations by goal still possible: officials
VANCOUVER - The top doctor at British Columbia's First Nations Health Authority says active cases of COVID-19 are down after a "significant spike" in early January, and delivering the vaccine to all I...
Feb 16, 2021

Veteran jockey Eurico Rosa Da Silva makes many shocking revelations in autobiography
The racetrack was always Eurico Rosa Da Silva's happy place. It's where he won over 2,200 career races - including two Queen's Plates - and seven times earned recognition as Canada's top jockey. But i...
Feb 16, 2021

Ottawa urged to grant permanent residency to wrongfully arrested Quebec man
MONTREAL - Ottawa is being urged to grant permanent residency to a Quebec man who was wrongfully arrested, charged with attempted murder of a police officer and detained for six days before being let ...
Feb 16, 2021

Statistics Canada report says agency not at fault in leak of April 2020 job-loss data
OTTAWA - A final investigation report on how last April's jobs report leaked out early says Statistics Canada wasn't the source, confirming early suspicions from agency officials that the unauthorized...
Feb 16, 2021

Tyler Perry, Clintons attend memorial for actor Cicely Tyson
NEW YORK - Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton are among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem's famed Abyssinian Baptist Church. The memorial service Tuesday cam...
Feb 16, 2021