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'Your world gets a little small:' chronic fatigue driving Nanaimo woman into frigid ocean water
NANAIMO - One woman's daily dip in the frosty ocean water is helping raise awareness toward an underdiagnosed condition.Cecile van Woensel suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), a complicated di...
Feb 9, 2022
Downtowns growing faster than before, but pandemic hampered rate of growth: census
TORONTO - Statistics Canada says the country's downtowns are growing faster than before, but the pandemic triggered a slowdown in how many people migrated to city centres. New census data released by ...
Feb 9, 2022
Canadian Steven Dubois wins silver in short-track speedskating
BEIJING - Canadian Steven Dubois has won a silver medal in the men's 1,500-metre short-track speedskating event at the Beijing Olympics. The 24-year-old Dubois from Terrebonne, Que. claimed second pla...
Feb 9, 2022
Jefferson Quran returns to US as Dubai Expo 2020 winds down
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A rare, two-volume Quran owned by U.S. President Thomas Jefferson found itself carefully packed away Wednesday for a return flight to America after being on display ...
Feb 9, 2022
Statistics Canada to detail first findings from last year's pandemic census
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is scheduled this morning to release the first set of findings from last year's census taken against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today's release will detail the p...
Feb 9, 2022
O'Dine picks up Canada's 7th medal at Beijing Olympics with snowboard cross bronze
BEIJING - A concussion robbed Meryeta O'Dine of her first chance at Olympic glory. O'Dine had made Canada's snowboard team for the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics after a successful 2017-18 campaign on the ...
Feb 9, 2022
More protest arrests in Ottawa, first COVID census findings : In The News for Feb. 9
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 Feb. 9 ... What we are watching in Canada ... ...
Feb 9, 2022
Canadians less trusting of governments, politicians as pandemic drags on: poll
OTTAWA - There is a noticeable decline in how trusting Canadians are of their leaders and institutions as the pandemic drags on, and it's particularly striking among those who remain anxious or stress...
Feb 9, 2022
Police concerned for safety of kids living in trucks involved in Ottawa protest
Ottawa police say 23 people have been arrested in the ongoing anti-vaccine mandate protest in the city's downtown, and there are 85 ongoing criminal investigations related to the nearly two-week-long ...
Feb 9, 2022
'The big picture': Alberta border protesters planning to stay for the long haul
COUTTS, Alta. - Alberta's vaccine passport is gone but protesters are promising to hunker down for the long term on the highway leading to the province's main U.S. border crossing. Any thought that th...
Feb 9, 2022