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Canadian women's basketball team in group with Spain, Serbia, South Korea at Olympics
MIES, Switzerland - The Canadian women's basketball team will have a chance to exact revenge on Spain at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. Canada was placed into Group A with Spain, Serbia and South Korea in t...
Feb 02, 2021
Obama speechwriter's memoir 'Grace' to come out in 2022
NEW YORK - The White House speechwriter who helped President Barack Obama work on his response to the Charleston church massacre in June 2015 has a book deal. Cody Keenan's memoir is set around the ti...
Feb 02, 2021
Marilyn Manson denies Evan Rachel Wood's abuse allegations
LOS ANGELES - Rocker Marilyn Manson was dropped by his record label on Monday after actor Evan Rachel Wood accused her ex-fianc of sexual and other physical abuse, alleging she was "manipulated into s...
Feb 02, 2021
Iran: Sailors from seized South Korean tanker to be released
TEHRAN, Iran - The sailors from a South Korean tanker seized in the Persian Gulf by Iranian troops last month are free to leave the country on humanitarian grounds, Iran's state TV said Tuesday. Forei...
Feb 02, 2021
Messy winter storm slams into the Maritimes
HALIFAX - A winter storm is sweeping over the Maritimes, forcing the closure of schools and making driving treacherous. Snowfall and winter storm warnings remain in effect for much of the region, thou...
Feb 02, 2021
T-shirt latest source of tension in China-Canada ties
BEIJING - China says it has lodged a formal complaint with Canada over T-shirts ordered by one of the country's Beijing Embassy staff that allegedly mocked China's response to the coronavirus outbreak...
Feb 02, 2021
Canada on verge of deal to make COVID-19 vaccines at home
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today is expected to announce the makings of an agreement to produce COVID-19 vaccines within Canada. Industry Minister Francois-Phillipe Champagne tells The Can...
Feb 02, 2021
Free, fast-charge EV stations go green at Nanaimo Airport
NANAIMO - Four new, free electric vehicle charging stations are operational at Nanaimo Airport.Two stations were installed recently in the main parking lot outside the terminal building. A further two...
Feb 02, 2021
Euro economy shrank at end of 2020 under pandemic's weight
The European economy shrank by a smaller than expected 0.7% in the last three months of 2020 as businesses in France and Germany weathered a renewed round of anti-COVID-19 lockdowns somewhat better th...
Feb 02, 2021
Pakistan orders man acquitted in Pearl murder off death row
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the Pakistani-British man acquitted of the 2002 gruesome beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl off death row and moved to a so-called go...
Feb 02, 2021