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Italy's Meloni easily wins 2nd and final confidence vote
ROME (AP) - Italy's new far-right-led government of Premier Giorgia Meloni has easily won the second of two required confidence votes in Parliament by a comfortable margin. Wednesday night's vote in t...
Oct 26, 2022
Canada's Auger-Aliassime advances to Round of 16 at Swiss Indoors
BASEL, Switzerland - Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime advanced to the Round of 16 at the Swiss Indoors with a three-set win over Switzerland's Marc-Andrea Huesler on Wednesday. The Montreal native beat ...
Oct 26, 2022
Overhaul transparency law by adopting long-standing calls for change, group tells MPs
OTTAWA - A pro-transparency group is telling MPs to retool the Access to Information Act by dropping the application fee, imposing tighter timelines to respond to requests for files and narrowing exce...
Oct 26, 2022
Ex-Ottawa police chief says force couldn't change much about response to convoy
OTTAWA - The former chief of the Ottawa police says his officers couldn't have done anything materially differently during the response to the "Freedom Convoy." A summary report of an interview with P...
Oct 26, 2022
Atmospheric river forecast in B.C. days after temperature records and drought
VANCOUVER - An atmospheric river packing "narrow bands of heavy precipitation" is forecast for parts of British Columbia just a week after numerous high temperature records were set amid concerns of d...
Oct 26, 2022
CP NewsAlert: France denies extradition for priest facing charge in Nunavut
The federal government says France has denied an extradition request for Johannes Rivoire, a priest accused of crimes against children in Nunavut. More to come. The Canadian Press
Oct 26, 2022
Judge orders Meadows to testify in Georgia election probe
ATLANTA (AP) - A judge on Wednesday ordered former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to testify before a special grand jury that's investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allie...
Oct 26, 2022
Man convicted of killing 6 with SUV in Christmas parade
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin man was convicted Wednesday of killing six people and injuring dozens of others when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade last year, ending a trial in which he ...
Oct 26, 2022
Rights group wants other provinces to end random police stops banned by Quebec judge
MONTREAL - The Canadian Civil Liberties Association is hailing a Quebec Superior Court decision banning random police stops and is calling on other provinces to end the practice without waiting to be ...
Oct 26, 2022
Nanoose man wanted for break-in & sexual assault arrested in Manitoba
NANAIMO - A man wanted in connection to a break-in and sexual assault in Nanoose Bay is in custody.Police in Steinbach, Manitoba arrested 27-year-old Quinten Anthony Meyer on Thursday, Oct. 20, approx...
Oct 26, 2022