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Nunavut senator quits Conservative caucus over support for Ottawa protests
Nunavut's senator says he has left the Conservative caucus over its support for protests in Ottawa against vaccine mandates and COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. Dennis Patterson told The Canadian Press...
Feb 4, 2022
Davies, Sinclair among five Canadians up for CONCACAF Player of the Year Award
Canadians Alphonso Davies, Jonathan David, Jessie Fleming, Stephanie Labbe and Christine Sinclair are up for CONCACAF Player of the Year. The men's and women's winners will be determined in voting by ...
Feb 4, 2022
Arrows start 2022 MLR season with well-travelled coach Peter Smith at the helm
TORONTO - While just 32, Toronto Arrows head coach Peter Smith has a few stories to tell. A fly half, the Australian played rugby professionally in Wales (Ospreys) and Japan (Coca-Cola West Red Spark ...
Feb 4, 2022
N.S. woman says sex assault charge shouldn't stall probe of police conduct
HALIFAX - A Halifax woman who alleges investigators mishandled her sexual assault case says a charge laid this week shouldn't delay probes into police conduct. Carrie Low said in an interview Friday s...
Feb 4, 2022
Pence says Trump wrong in saying VP could overturn election
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump's false claims that Pence somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was...
Feb 4, 2022
Ottawa files court brief supporting Enbridge Inc. in Line 5 dispute with Michigan
WASHINGTON - The federal government is once again urging a Michigan judge to keep Line 5 operating while it works with the United States on negotiating an end to the impasse over the controversial cro...
Feb 4, 2022
How the truckers' convoy might show where the Conservative party is headed next
OTTAWA - A convoy of protesters against COVID-19 restrictions that has settled into downtown Ottawa has provided a test for the Conservative party as it rolls into a leadership race. "I spent the week...
Feb 4, 2022
Tennessee gov, GOP push more scrutiny of school libraries
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Less than a week after a local Tennessee school board attracted national attention for banning a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, Gov. Bill Lee went pu...
Feb 4, 2022
Views from the front lines: The stories of those inside an Ontario hospital
SARNIA, Ont. - Behind the daily statistics of COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations are grieving families, exhausted nurses and frightened patients. Here's a look at some of their stories. SISTERS ...
Feb 4, 2022
Northwest Territories defeats Manitoba 8-6 in Scotties tiebreaker game
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Kerry Galusha of the Northwest Territories defeated Manitoba's Mackenzie Zacharias 8-6 in a tiebreaker game Friday morning at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts Canadian women's cur...
Feb 4, 2022